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# Solution Engineer - SLED at AvePoint

- **Company:** AvePoint
- **Location:** Chicago IL, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-02-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://www.avepoint.com/careers/job-detail?gh_jid=6760659

## Job description

About the position:

As the Solution Engineer - SLED, you will partner with our sales executives as the key technical lead throughout the sales lifecycle of our business. Through this partnership, you will work in a consultative role to assist in the successful closing of new deals by performing technical presentations of AvePoint solutions and pre-sales support to our prospective and returning customers.

You’re tasked with serving as a key technical resource through the sales cycle. That means you’ll need to become an authority in the features and benefits of our software and services solutions to properly educate customers, gain consensus, and demonstrate value solving their Microsoft and multicloud concerns.

This role is for someone who wants to utilize their technical expertise and customer facing skills in the dynamic tech industry. An understanding of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and how clients may be tackling these problems is key.  This position is your opportunity to succeed as a pre-sales professional, allowing you to work with state of the art software offerings. We’ll provide you with continuous training and mentorship to help you on your way to success as a sales engineer.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Present and demonstrate AvePoint’s solutions to both business and technical users.
- Successfully facilitate solution discovery, solution overview, and technical deep dive sessions with customers.
- Build environments tailored to customer requirements as proof of concept during the sales lifecycle to illustrate product capabilities and how they align specifically with customer objectives.
- Participate in writing proposals in response to RFIs / RFPs that showcase how the AvePoint product line provides solutions to the customer's business objections
- Collaborate regularly with product management as a field representative regarding product development and improvements, effectively conveying customer requirements
- Establishing relationships with key customer business and technical advocates that have the power to drive long-term AvePoint solution adoption within their company
- Developing customer’s buying vision for how AvePoint can help them reduce costs and increase business agility
- Support AvePoint Marketing teams by developing and delivering product demonstrations, workshops, white papers.

About you:

- Proven success in a customer facing, pre-sales role proposing software solutions at all levels of a customer organization.
- Proficient in having conversations with IT stakeholders and addressing common concerns around interoperability and differentiation from common enterprise systems.
- Ability to engage in strategic thinking to facilitate deal closure, leveraging a blend of technical expertise and a sales-oriented mindset.
- Very comfortable presenter of technical and business material to both small and large groups at varying levels
- Ability to rapidly comprehend, assimilate, and organize novel and intricate information (such as business and technical requisites), while also cultivating a deep comprehension of client industries and associated application scenarios.
- Energetic, optimistic, and team-oriented approach to work, coupled with a strong sense of accountability and a passion for wholeheartedly embracing responsibilities.
- Ability to travel with the needs of the role
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related field, or equivalent experience
- Have completed or currently Pursuing Certifications such as is a nice to have. If not, we will support you in obtaining these with our tuition reimbursement program.
- [Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals - Certifications | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/microsoft-365-fundamentals/) OR [Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - Certifications | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/azure-fundamentals/)

Benefits:

- Competitive market-based compensation (salary, yearly bonus + equity)
- Career progression and internal mobility opportunities
- Work-life balance through a hybrid working model 3 days a week in office
- Unlimited PTO

The Salary Range for this role is $90,000 - $130,000. At AvePoint, we strive to offer competitive, fair, and equitable total rewards. The listed salary range represents a good faith estimate, with final offers based on location, experience, skills, and qualifications. The listed range reflects base salary only; our total rewards include base salary, comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, unlimited PTO), and depending on the role, bonuses, commissions, or equity (RSUs). We welcome compensation discussions—apply even if your expectations fall outside the range. Any personal data you share with us during the application process will be processed strictly in compliance with applicable data protection laws and our [Privacy Notice](https://www.avepoint.com/company/privacy-notice).

## About AvePoint

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AvePoint is a global leader in data security, governance, and resilience, providing a unified platform to help organizations protect, manage, and optimize their data across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other collaboration environments in an AI-driven world.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: AVPT)
- **Headquarters**: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- **Founded**: 2001
- **Founders**: The company was founded by a team of entrepreneurs; the journey began in a public library in Somerset, New Jersey.

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Enterprise SaaS (Data Security, Governance, and Resilience)
- Target customers: B2B, heavily focused on Enterprise and Government (including highly regulated industries)
- Mission or purpose statement: To enable organizations to confidently embrace the future of work by simplifying collaboration, securing data, and unlocking the potential of AI. Their platform, the AvePoint Confidence Platform, acts as the "Trust Layer" for modern data challenges.

## Products & Services
- **[AvePoint Confidence Platform]**: A unified, cloud‑native SaaS platform that integrates data security, governance, and resilience. It addresses four core data challenges:
    1.  **Digital Sprawl**: Scalable backup and granular restore from a single platform.
    2.  **Legacy & Fragmented Data**: Full lifecycle management from creation to retirement, including discovery and cleanup of Redundant, Outdated, and Trivial (ROT) data.
    3.  **Overexposed Data**: Visibility and least-privilege access controls, automated policy reviews, and configuration drift remediation.
    4.  **Data Loss & Interruption**: Proactive security and compliance controls to mitigate reputational risk.
- **Specialized Solutions**: The platform includes specific tools for Microsoft 365 Copilot analytics, workspace management (MyHub), and rapid cloud backup (Cloud Backup Express).
- **Certifications & Compliance**: The platform is certified against major standards including ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701:2019, ISO 27017:2015, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP (Moderate), IRAP (Australia), and CSA STAR.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: (Not publicly available from search results, but as a NASDAQ-traded company, this fluctuates. Check Yahoo Finance or a similar service for current data.)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue (Public) OR Total Funding (Private): **Public Company** - refer to SEC filings (10-K/10-Q) for the most recent quarterly/annual revenues.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Deeply embedded partnership with **Microsoft** (has won the Global Microsoft Partner of the Year Award six times). Other key ecosystem partners include Google and Salesforce.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Serves **28,000+ customers** in **100 countries**.
    - Over **3,000 employees** globally, with a strategically distributed workforce (two-thirds in APAC).
    - Expanded FedRAMP authorization to include three new products in 2024.
    - Launched an **AI Lab in Singapore** in 2024 to drive industry-focused innovation.
    - Hosted across **14 global data centers**.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Microsoft Ecosystem Integration**: AvePoint is a long-standing, premier partner of Microsoft with one of the largest SaaS userbases in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Their history dates back to providing backup for SharePoint 2001.
- **Comprehensive "Trust Layer"**: They are one of the few vendors to unify data security, governance, and resilience (backup & recovery) into a single platform, meeting the needs of highly regulated industries and governments.
- **Highest Security Standards**: Holds extensive, globally recognized security and compliance accreditations (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27701, IRAP), making them a trusted partner for the public sector and regulated industries.
- **Global Infrastructure & Support**: A strategically distributed global workforce and 14 data centers support data sovereignty requirements worldwide.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Ready Data Governance**: Centered on the idea that AI is only as good as the data it uses. AvePoint focuses on helping organizations prepare, secure, and govern their data for AI adoption (e.g., providing benchmarking and analytics for Microsoft 365 Copilot).
- **Serving the Public Sector**: Actively expanding its FedRAMP authorized product portfolio to capture more government business in the US and other regulated regions.
- **Continued Platform Expansion**: Adding new analytics, workspace management, and rapid backup solutions to broaden the scope of the Confidence Platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Award-Winning Culture**: Recognized as an **Inc. Best Workplace** (back-to-back), a **Built In Best Place to Work (2024)**, and a **Great Place to Work** (93% of US employees say it's a great place to work vs. 57% at a typical US-based company). Also received awards in the Philippines, Australia, and from kununu (Top 2025 Company).
- **Culture & Values**: The company describes its culture with five core values and leadership behaviors:
    - **Ownership and Accountability** ("We take full accountability, set high standards...")
    - **Teamwork** ("promoting global collaboration and taking pride in helping, sharing, mentoring...")
    - **Agility** ("quick, informed decision-making... a growth mindset")
    - **Visionary and Practical** ("bold ideas... turning them into groundbreaking realities")
    - **Inclusive and Empathetic** ("Diversity is at the core of our success... fostering inclusive collaboration")
- **Growth Trajectory**: With over 3,000 employees and a history of rapid growth, there are significant opportunities to make an impact and "craft your career."
- **Global & Remote-Flexible**: Opportunities are available across **North America, APAC, and EMEA** in cities like Jersey City, New York, London, Singapore, Sydney, and many more. They also have remote positions in Poland and other locations.
- **Entrepreneurial Spirit**: The company encourages a "builder" mindset, where employees are empowered to "seize" opportunities and take ownership.

## Sources
1. [Avepoint.com - Company Site](https://www.avepoint.com/)
2. [Avepoint.com - History Page](https://www.avepoint.com/history)
3. [Avepoint.com - Careers Page](https://www.avepoint.com/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - AvePoint](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avepoint)
5. [Great Place to Work - AvePoint](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7048881)

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