Company: Permutive
Location: London
Posted: March 28th, 2026
The sales team at Permutive is a lean, high-performing group of industry experts. Our unique advantage lies in leveraging publisher first-party signals to drive 100% addressability, enabling us to forge significant partnerships with leading brands and agencies.
We're in an accelerated phase of growth, specifically focused on replacing third-party data on the open web. Your strategic acumen in promoting the curation and activation of bespoke audiences will directly contribute to our industry-defining mission.
We’re hiring a Solutions Engineer with a unique blend of technical AdTech / MarTech acumen paired with a drive to provide value and technical color to all sales cycles. This SE will have a proven track record of successfully selling SAAS or data solutions to a variety of AdTech / MarTech partners across Publishers, Advertisers, Broadcasters and Agencies. You will collaborate directly with Sales Directors to present innovative solutions tailored to the unique needs across all of our target customers and be able to tie these solutions to demonstrations of the platform.
This is a dynamic, fast-paced environment where managing expectations and aligning diverse stakeholders is key.
You are comfortable diving into existing documentation, API specifications, have a good understanding of the AdTech MarTech ecosystem, a high level understanding of Data Management Platforms, GitHub repositories, Data Warehouse and Cloud infrastructure to best architect solutions in sales cycles for our customers. You’re eager to understand how systems and products work and autonomously capable of reverse engineering, using browser tools, and/or reading code comments to learn.
When building solutions for prospective customers you will need to be able to evaluate the full scope of work required to accomplish customer use cases. This includes being able to identify what we can do already and what we can't do today. Out of scope project will provide this Solutions Engineer the perfect opportunity to liaise with our Product and Engineering teams to scope new in market needs tied to real revenue opportunities and align this with our internal Roadmap.
As a trusted advisor you will connect technology to the needs of prospective customers. It is beneficial that you have an understanding of the advertising technology landscape and empathy for the challenges publishers & advertisers face.
This role will require travel to customer engagements. The amount of travel can fluctuate based on active opportunities.
Lead value-driven and solutions-oriented demos for prospective technical and non-technical customers, including C-suite.
Leverage consultative approaches such as the challenger method and tell-show-tell techniques to communicate impact and address prospective customer needs effectively.
Provide technical guidance on Permutive's platform.
Troubleshoot customer challenges, and lead workshops and training sessions.
Lead the design, development, and execution of Proof of Concept (POC) projects to demonstrate the value of Permutive’s platform in solving customer-specific challenges.
Communicate technical concepts and solution designs to technical and non-technical audiences
Gather customer feedback, identify market needs, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to influence the product roadmap.
Familiarity with data warehouses and cloud infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, GCP, AWS, Azure). Comfortable with undertaking discovery or setting up small scale tests that would include: querying a DWH during POV/POCs, configuring a cloud storage bucket for a customer to upload sample data to, configuring cloud permissions to access a customer’s BigQuery instance in order to create a materialized view.
Comfortable working with APIs (REST, GraphQL).
Able to interpret API documentation, authenticate requests, issue API calls, and process/store resulting payloads. Familiarity with tools like Postman for API testing is a plus.
Experience deploying and managing cloud computing and storage resources (GCP, AWS, or similar). Capable of creating small-scale PoCs, securely accessing data warehouses, and configuring cloud permissions and storage solutions. NOTE: this does not mean you need to be deploying production ready resources.
Familiarity with browser developer tools for QA purposes. Able to inspect network requests, debug API issues, and analyze webpage sources and console logs to troubleshoot effectively. Familiarity with JavaScript is a plus.
Understanding of Data Pipelines: Awareness of ETL workflows or data movement between APIs, storage, and compute resources.
Proven ability in navigating complex technical challenges and creating tailored solutions for enterprise customers.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical details into business value for a wide range of stakeholders.
Comfortable producing workshops and technical discovery sessions and presenting to a diverse range of audiences.
Worked with analytics, AI, or other enterprise platforms in a customer-facing capacity.
A demonstrated understanding of advertising and marketing technology and the challenges faced by publishers and advertisers in a privacy-first landscape.
Understanding of the programmatic advertising landscape and technologies.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, partnering with Sales, Product, and Engineering to deliver impactful PoCs.
A solutions-oriented mindset focused on crafting innovative approaches to address customer pain points.
We take a structured, objective approach to salary-setting, which is based on marketing information, our compensation strategy, and your experience and capability assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements, we pay a base salary between £85-95k
If you join Permutive as an Solutions Engineer with a base salary of £85k and reach 100% quota attainment in a year, your OTE for that year will be around £102,000. The true earning potential is significantly higher as your potential to earn is uncapped, 100% quota attainment is the minimum expectation for our Sales Engineers.
In this together: As a full-time employee, you'll become a shareholder with stock options, sharing in our collective success.
Family Comes First: Primary caregivers receive up to 6 months of fully paid leave and secondary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid leave to bond with their little ones.
Your Time, Your Way: Flexible hours let you fit work around your life, whether it's hitting the gym, meditating, or handling family needs.
Upgraded Workspace: A £350 budget helps you create the perfect home office setup.
Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (with a minimum of 25 days + public holidays) ensures you get the rest you need.
Grow with Us: Ongoing training and development opportunities fuel your career aspirations.
Mental Health Matters: We prioritise your well-being with free access to Spill, our mental health partner.
Comprehensive Care: Enjoy virtual GP visits, healthcare services, work-life consultations.
Secure your future: Our pension plan with Penfold helps you secure your financial future (employer contributes 3%, employee contributes 5%).
Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best, whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said, none of us work alone; we are part of a team.
To foster collaboration and connection, teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer-facing teams are encouraged to embrace in-person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the company’s Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each year’s event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together, reconnect with colleagues, and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.
At Permutive, we’re taking a thoughtful, intersectional, long-term approach to diversity, equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish, and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction.
We’re committed to hiring people regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity status, disability status, or otherwise.
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