Manager, Solutions Engineering

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit

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About The Role

As a Manager on the Solutions Engineering team at Mixpanel, you will lead a talented group of analytics consultants who are pivotal to our success. You will be at the forefront of driving customer value, guiding your team as they serve as the primary technical resources for our Sales organization.

This role is a unique blend of leadership, technical expertise, and business strategy. You will be responsible for coaching and developing your team, refining our technical sales processes, and collaborating across departments to ensure our customers achieve their business outcomes with Mixpanel.

You will also play a key role in hiring, onboarding, and managing the next wave of Solutions Engineers. By fostering a culture of excellence and deep customer empathy, you will empower your team to architect innovative solutions, drive product adoption, and ultimately secure the technical win with prospects and customers.

Responsibilities

Develop & Mentor

Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing and inclusive team of Solutions Engineers, actively investing in their career development and upholding a high standard of performance.

Drive Results

Partner closely with Sales leadership and Account Executives to provide technical expertise that drives new, retained, and expansion ARR. You will ensure your team's activities are directly contributing to the company's bottom line.

Prioritize & Problem Solve

Guide your team through complex customer evaluations and technical challenges. You will manage team resources effectively, aligning the right skills to customer needs to achieve productivity targets and successful outcomes.

Cross-functional Partnership

Act as a key technical liaison, collaborating with peer managers across Sales, Product, and Engineering. You will gather and synthesize customer feedback from your team to influence product strategy and solve problems at scale.

Communicate & Manage Change

Effectively translate broader company and departmental strategy into clear, actionable goals for your team. You will guide your direct reports through evolving business priorities with empathy and clarity.

Hire The Best

Actively assess the needs of the team, build a pipeline of top talent, and hire outstanding individuals who elevate the team's capabilities and contribute to our inclusive culture.

Innovate & Raise The Bar

Relentlessly seek to improve how your team operates, from refining demo strategies and proof-of-concept methodologies to adopting new tools and processes that increase effectiveness and celebrate success.

We’re Looking For Someone Who

Has progressive experience in a B2B SaaS environment, including 3+ years of people management experience leading a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or professional services team.

Exhibits a "player-coach" mentality with deep knowledge in the data and analytics space. You are an expert on how data products (like CDPs, data warehouses, and analytics tools) are implemented and adopted by customers.

Is a proven cross-functional partner with a track record of successfully working with sales teams to navigate complex deals and drive revenue.

Demonstrates expertise in communicating complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Is skilled at prioritizing team activities and managing workload in a dynamic environment, balancing customer needs with efficiency goals.

Is a natural mentor and developer of talent, with a passion for coaching and a history of building inclusive, high-achieving teams.

Handles ambiguity with ease, demonstrating flexibility and a proactive, problem-solving mindset when adapting to new challenges and business priorities.

Actively seeks feedback and is humble to learn, consistently looking for ways to improve themselves and their team.

Bonus Points

Previous experience in management consulting, strategic operations, or a similar role focused on go-to-market strategy.

Direct, hands-on experience with Mixpanel or other product analytics tools like Amplitude, Pendo, or Contentsquare.

Strong familiarity with the modern data stack, including tools like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Segment, or Hightouch.

Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings

here

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Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Mixpanel Compensation Range

$238,300

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$321,705 USD

Benefits And Perks

Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care

Mental Wellness Benefit

Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Volunteer Time Off

Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

Make Bold Bets

We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.

Innovate With Insight

We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.

One Team

We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.

Candor With Connection

We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.

Champion The Customer

We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.

Powerful Simplicity

We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why Choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.