Sales Engineer, Thoropass

$90-140k

+ Equity

Junior, Mid and Senior level
New York

2-3 days a week in office

Thoropass

Compliance & audit management platform

Open for applications

Thoropass

Compliance & audit management platform

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseComplianceSaaSAutomation

Open for applications

$90-140k

+ Equity

Junior, Mid and Senior level
New York

2-3 days a week in office

101-200 employees

B2BEnterpriseComplianceSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To build a world that’s safer for consumers, more seamless for enterprise, and ripe for advancement.

Role

Who you are

  • We are seeking a unique, scrappy, and innovative thinker to join our Sales Engineering team
  • This is a key role in the company and one that’s rapidly evolving, so we’re looking for someone open to a challenge and wanting to make their mark on an ever-evolving startup
  • This is someone who can be deployed in different situations, is comfortable being uncomfortable, and can find their way through
  • The ideal candidate will provide compliance expertise, solution scoping, sales support and thought leadership for a growing team of Sales Engineers
  • Experience with compliance and security frameworks, at a minimum SOC2, but not limited to HITRUST, PCI, HIPAA, ISO27001, SOC1, GDPR, CCPA, etc
  • Proven ability to work cross functionally across multiple teams, understanding how your role effects the rest of the organization
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, both internally and externally
  • The ability to be creative and forward thinking, proposing multiple viable paths forward in any given situation
  • A consistent challenger of the status quo, wanting to improve every day
  • A team player through and through, you raise your hand to help even if its outside of your immediate responsibilities
  • Technical Expertise: Profound understanding of the InfoSec Compliance industry and various software tools emerging from it
  • Project Scoping: Experience scoping complex custom infosec project/audit requirements, with SOC2 being a requirement, and ISO 27001, HITRUST, PCI, SOC1, GDPR, HIPAA, etc. as bonuses
  • Adaptability: Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Deep InfoSec Compliance expertise including certification(s) in building or auditing programs related to SOC2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, PCI, HIPAA, etc
  • Demonstrated leadership and team building skills
  • Strategic thinker with a results-driven approach to problem-solving

Desirable

  • New York City - preferred (with the ability and willingness to travel to NYC 2-3x per quarter)
  • Selling experience, including but not limited to creating and presenting pricing proposals
  • A large network of compliance or InfoSec experts to draw upon for expertise, thought leadership, customer referrals or employee referrals

What the job involves

  • In this role, you would play a pivotal role in driving our product's market success
  • You'll be responsible for bridging the gap between technical solutions and customer needs – ensuring our product's value proposition is effectively communicated and understood by potential clients
  • You will also be given the opportunity to work on or touch all aspects of a rapidly growing start up – from product development and improvement, to customer delivery, to exciting marketing and partnership opportunities
  • Sales Support and Strategy: Collaborate closely with the sales team to develop and execute sales strategies that highlight the technical advantages of our software
  • Own Free Trials and Demo Environments: You will be responsible for running effective free trial and POC processes for prospects as part of pre-sales
  • Solution Scoping: For complex deals, you will lead the first iteration of custom scoping conversations and solutions, delivering accurate and transparent information downstream to our Customer Solutions and Delivery teams
  • Training and Enablement: You will be involved in the development and delivery of various frameworks and enablement sessions. This may include framework specific review, industry updates, or product and feature roll out impact
  • Industry Events: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant industry updates, competition, and trends via events, product deminars, etc
  • Product Expertise: Maintain in-depth knowledge of the product’s features, capabilities, and updates to provide detailed technical advice and support
  • Feedback Loop: Act as a liaison between various teams - bringing pre-sales and post-sale teams, providing feedback from the field to the product team, and assisting marketing and partnerships on branding and events
  • Establishing Process: Work with the Head of Sales Engineering to create scalable and repeatable processes, both internally for a new team, as well as across the organization

Our take

If you’re a growth stage startup, you need to become SOC 2 compliant to be able to close enterprise deals. But becoming SOC 2 compliant can be expensive, time consuming, and pretty complicated. Thoropass (previously known as Laika) provides an end-to-end compliance service for startups, to enable them to work with legacy companies in highly regulated fields such as health and fintech.

Due diligence is quickly becoming a consideration from day one for startups in these fields, with an increase in collaboration between disruptive startups and legacy players. Thoropass has taken up an acute position between the two, allowing startups to get deals done more smoothly and scale more quickly, whilst allowing the established companies to access emerging talent.

Although Thoropass has maintained a strong focus on growing, early-stage companies, it has ambitious plans to start working with big banks in the future. Significant funding raised by the company, that already has hundreds of customers, will see it invest in expanding the functionality of its platform and its wider business funnel.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Nov 2022

$50m

SERIES C

Nov 2021

$35m

SERIES B

Total funding: $98m

Company benefits

  • Flexible work options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Continuing education stipend
  • One-time home office stipend for remote employees
  • 401K plan
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Employer-sponsored pet insurance and family planning
  • Benefits coverage for US employees

Company values

  • Open and inclusive collaborators.
  • Diverse ideas. Diverse Teams.
  • Entrepreneurial.
  • Integrity.
  • Solve big problems for our customers.

Company HQ

Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY

Founders

Austin Ogilvie

(Founder & Co-CEO)

Began career as a Research Analyst at EverFi. Moved on to become Project Manager at On Deck Capital. Was CEO for 5 years at Yhat, acquired by Alteryx, and then went on to become Director of Product Management.

Eva Pittas

(Founder)

Studied Finance at NYU Stern School of Business. Worked at Citi Bank for over 13 years as Chief Financial Officer. Later became Managing Director at Citigroup. Founded and worked as CEO of Fintech BRCG in 2017.

Sam Li

(Founder & Co-CEO)

Studied Computer Sciences, Maths and MBA at the Universities of Virgina, Columbia, and Harvard. Worked as a Technology Analyst for Goldman Sachs. They then became a Technical Account Manager at Google. Co-founded and worked as CTO of Zinc Platform. Most recently was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures.

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