Senior Solutions Engineer in Canberra

With over 30,000 customers, including a third of Fortune 500 companies, Tempo is trusted by organizations across the globe to make their workflows work better. We create a suite of integrated solutions for time management, resource planning, budget management, roadmapping, program management, reporting and more. Since our beginning in 2007 as a project to make a time-tracking tool to help a client, Tempo has expanded to become the #1 time management add-on for Jira.

About the role: As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will join our team, serving as the ultimate trusted advisor for Tempo’s Strategic Portfolio Management and enterprise agility solutions. Reporting to the Solutions Engineering leadership and based in Sydney, you will champion our vision to mid-market and enterprise accounts across the APAC region. This role requires a blend of deep technical mastery, business acumen, and a passion for value-based enterprise SaaS sales.

What you’ll do:

• Strategic Value Selling: Deliver compelling architectural presentations, product demonstrations, and business value assessments to enterprise stakeholders and C-level executives.
• AI & SPM Advocacy: Articulate Tempo’s vision for intelligent, data-driven portfolio management, demonstrating how AI capabilities can optimize workflows, capacity planning, and strategic decision-making.
• Partner & Ecosystem Enablement: Design and deliver technical enablement programs for our global solutions partners, ensuring they can position and implement Tempo’s complex SPM frameworks.
• Deal Strategy & Execution: Provide technical pre-sales support for high-value strategic opportunities. Own the technical discovery process, architecture reviews, and technical validation phases (RFPs/POCs).
• Feedback Loop: Act as a critical link between the field and product engineering, feeding enterprise customer insights and AI feature requests back to product management to shape our roadmap.
• Scalable Engineering: Contribute to the creation of reusable demo environments, advanced integration patterns, and best-practice technical documentation.
• Community & Travel: Co-host technical workshops and industry events with partners and clients, with occasional travel for priority conferences and internal collaboration.

Who you are:

• Experience: 5+ years of Solutions Engineering (Pre-Sales) or enterprise consulting experience within enterprise B2B SaaS environments.
• Domain Expertise: Strong background in Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Resource Management, or Enterprise Agility frameworks.
• AI & Data Literacy: Familiarity with how AI, machine learning models, or predictive analytics can be leveraged within enterprise software to drive forecasting and data insights.
• Ecosystem Expertise: Deep knowledge of the Atlassian Cloud ecosystem, including Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Jira Product Discovery, and Atlassian Access.
• Consultative Mindset: Exceptional ability to map complex, disjointed business processes to a unified, automated software solution.

Why Join Tempo?

• Impact: Work on meaningful products that empower enterprise users and improve productivity.
• Innovation: Be part of a culture that values creativity and innovation, with opportunities to make a real impact.
• Collaboration: Join a supportive, collaborative UX team that values openness, communication, and a continuous learning environment.
• Growth: Opportunities for professional development, including conferences, courses, and mentorship.

What's In It For You (Org-wide):

• Remote First work environment
• Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!
• Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan.
• Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more.
• Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work.
• An opportunity to have a real impact on our business.
• A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual).
• Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices.
• Employee referral program.
• And so much more!

Join us at Tempo Software, where we proudly foster an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.