Solutions Engineer

Restaurant365
SF Bay Area/Northern California, US
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have hands-on restaurant management software experience and a demonstrated interest in AI.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with restaurant finance or operations expertise and AI curiosity
    — “Curiosity and eagerness to use AI in your daily work, backed by hands-on experience”
  • Individuals who have worked in restaurant or hospitality tech environments
    — “Hands-on experience using restaurant management software in a restaurant, hospitality, or restaurant-technology environment”
  • Professionals who enjoy building customer rapport and delivering technical presentations
    — “Build rapport with prospective customers ... and creating opportunities for our people to make a greater impact”

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work requires in-office presence 2 days per week, limiting remote flexibility
    — “employees are expected to work onsite each Tuesday and Wednesday”
  • Travel is a significant commitment, taking up 25% of the role
    — “Willingness to travel 25% of the time”

How to stand out

  • Highlight AI integration experience and how it improves operational efficiency
    — “Find opportunities to automate and improve how work gets done across your role with approved AI and other tools”
  • Emphasize your ability to understand restaurant operations through personal experience
    — “understanding the realities of restaurant operations, ideally drawing from their own personal backgrounds”
  • Showcase your experience in creating and delivering compelling presentations
    — “Create and deliver powerful presentations that clearly communicate the uniqueness of the value proposition”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Expert status on all Restaurant365 features and partnering platforms
  • Building trusted relationships with customers and sales team
  • Creating and delivering powerful presentations
  • Setting up and maintaining demonstration platforms
  • Training the sales team on product knowledge
Typical background
Experience in restaurant management softwareExperience in a SaaS environment

Skills & requirements

Required

Restaurant Management SoftwareRestaurant Finance And OperationsInterpersonal SkillsCommunication SkillsProblem-solvingCRM SystemsSales SupportPresentation Skills

Preferred

Saas ExperienceAI Experience

Stack & domain

Restaurant Management SoftwareRestaurant FinanceRestaurant OperationsCommunicationPresentationProduct KnowledgeAIAutomationTeamworkLeadershipProblem-solvingCuriosityInitiativeLearningGrowthCollaborationFinanceHealthcareTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Restaurant365 via Lever

Restaurant365 is transforming how restaurants run their businesses. Today, we help more than 50,000 restaurant locations manage their finances, operations, and people. As AI changes what's possible, we're reimagining how restaurant back offices operate—automating routine work, helping teams make better decisions, and giving restaurant leaders more time to focus on growing their businesses. 

We're transforming how we work, too. AI is changing how we build products, solve problems, and deliver results for our customers. We're embracing new ways of working, moving faster, and creating opportunities for our people to make a greater impact. 

At Restaurant365, our culture is built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We believe in challenging ourselves, learning every day, and working together to achieve great results. We're looking for people who are curious, take initiative, and want to grow while helping shape the future of an industry.

As a Solutions Engineer, you will work closely with the sales team in both demonstrating the Restaurant365 platform and configuring products for other users. You will have a role in the transmission of future development from the product team to the sales team. Your expert product status will be used in answering technical “how to” questions for prospective customers as well as assisting the sales team with ‘as needed’ questions, research, and/or projects. 

Responsibilities:

Maintain an expert status on all Restaurant365 features and partnering platforms 

Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales process, building trusted working relationships and helping them advance customer conversations 

Build rapport with prospective customers by listening closely, asking thoughtful questions, and understanding the realities of restaurant operations, ideally drawing from their own personal backgrounds 

Understanding clients’ requirements, identifying gaps (if any) between clients’ requirements, and defining solutions to bridge the gap 

Create and deliver powerful presentations that clearly communicate the uniqueness of the value proposition 

Setting up and maintaining demonstration platforms for existing and new features 

Acting as a technical resource for sales team with specific questions regarding the R365 product and partnering solutions 

Training the sales team on product knowledge and new features 

RFP assistance for sales team 

Consult marketing from an R365 product and partnering product knowledge standpoint 

Perform webinars and in-person presentations for marketing and sales purposes 

QA of newly released features delivering feedback to the product team 

Find opportunities to automate and improve how work gets done across your role with approved AI and other tools, choosing the right tool for each task, refining your prompts, and reviewing outputs for quality and time saved. 

Other duties as assigned 

Qualifications:

Hands-on experience using restaurant management software in a restaurant, hospitality, or restaurant-technology environment  

Expert in restaurant finance and/or operations, preferably both 

Ability to speak credibly about how software supports day-to-day restaurant operations and/or finance 

Strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to establish rapport and build trusting relationships quickly with customers and teammates 

Excellent written and verbal communication, organization, and presentation skills 

A solutions-oriented mindset, sound judgment, and a desire to learn, grow, and improve 

Experience in a SaaS environment is a plus  

Willingness to travel 25% of the time 

Curiosity and eagerness to use AI in your daily work, backed by hands-on experience, a good sense of what generative AI can and can't do, and the judgment to verify its outputs.  

R365 Team Member Benefits & Compensation:

  • This position has a salary range of $66,400  - $99,600.
  • The above range represents the expected salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic location. Restaurant365 focuses on equitable pay for our team and aims for transparency with our pay practices.
  • Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
  • 401k + matching
  • Equity Option Grant
  • Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
  • Wellness initiatives

This role is hybrid, balancing flexibility with the value of in-person collaboration. To support connection, partnership, and team effectiveness, employees are expected to work onsite each Tuesday and Wednesday.

Internal Employees - R365 is committed to growing talent from within.  If you see a role that excites you and you meet the qualifications, we encourage you to apply -regardless of your current location or work arrangement.  Reach out to your People Business Partner if you have questions.

DYN365, Inc d/b/a Restaurant365 is an equal opportunity employer.

Source: Restaurant365 careers (Lever)

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