Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Solutions Consultant role sits in a classic SaaS junction point where product capability meets real customer environments. In a company like PagerDuty, whose platform is embedded in incident response and IT operations, pre sales work tends to be highly technical and integration heavy, with frequent exposure to security, reliability, and stakeholder alignment across engineering and business teams.
From a SaaS career perspective, solutions consulting builds a durable toolkit: technical discovery, translating workflows into product configuration, and guiding evaluation cycles with credible architecture guidance. The emphasis on integrations and answering RFP and security questionnaires also develops fluency in the operational realities that shape enterprise SaaS adoption, which transfers well into roles spanning sales engineering leadership, customer success architecture, or product facing technical strategy.
This position will suit professionals who enjoy switching between hands on problem solving and structured communication, and who prefer being accountable for moving complex evaluations forward. It is a strong match for someone comfortable engaging both technical practitioners and executive stakeholders, and who values work that rewards precision, curiosity, and the ability to teach without oversimplifying.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are seeking a technical and customer-focused Solutions Consultant to join our team. The Solutions Consultant will be responsible for understanding customer business environments, actively identifying potential roadblocks, and providing thoughtful solutions that leverage PagerDuty’s products. They will run the technical discovery process and provide guidance, relationship-building, and support throughout the sales process to ensure customer success.
As a Solutions Consultant at PagerDuty, you’ll sit at the nexus between pre-sales, sales, and customer experience and success. You are an extraordinary partner who plays the part of consultant, technical salesperson, technical guru, product specialist, and teacher, with a committed dedication to exceptional customer service. You will build strong, significant, and compassionate relationships with internal and external partners at all levels while helping customers realize and optimize PagerDuty's capabilities.
Key responsibilities
- Actively identify potential roadblocks and provide thoughtful, technical solutions
- Run technical discovery processes to understand customer environments and potential technical landmines
- Design integrations to provide seamless implementation with the customer's current technology stack
- Support sales cycles by handling technical questions in RFPs, RFIs, and security questionnaires
- Break down complex technical concepts and clearly articulate PagerDuty's business value to stakeholders from DevOps engineers up to C-level executives
- Support one of our over 375+ native integrations to help customers realize and optimize PagerDuty's capabilities
- Partner with sales, product, and cross-functional teams with a focus on growth and exceptional customer service
- Manage multiple tasks independently and collaboratively using project management and account management skills
- Come up to speed quickly, learn continuously, and apply impeccable attention to detail to all tasks
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of pre-sales experience
- Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in a technical field
- Ability to do basic scripting (Java, PHP, Ruby, Perl) and a fundamental knowledge of Linux
- Experience selling SaaS in a fierce environment
- Strong communication skills to build and manage relationships with new and existing clients, with a focus on growth
- Demonstrable knowledge of IT monitoring tools or IT Operations
- Excellent at multi-tasking, self-driven, and able to work both independently and with cross-functional teams
- Ability to travel to customer sites as necessary
Preferred qualifications
- Understanding of monitoring systems such as New Relic, Nagios, Zenoss, Splunk, ServiceNow, and Zabbix
- Familiarity and knowledge of PagerDuty's space, or already being a fan of our product
- Experience in both enterprise and commercial sales
PagerDuty is a flexible, hybrid workplace. We embrace and encourage in-person working as an integral part of our culture. Both our employees and external research tells us that co-located collaboration strengthens connections, drives innovation, and accelerates learning.
This role is expected to come into our San Francisco office two times per week, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!
The base salary range for this position is 144,000 - 197,200 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.
Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.
