Senior Embedded ISV Sales Engineer

Senior Embedded ISV Sales Engineer

Sales Engineering
· Full-Time
· Netherlands

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The digitization of tax compliance is fundamentally changing global commerce and how businesses need to operate and grow. Governments now have real-time visibility into business data, creating new challenges and new opportunities for organizations around the world. At Sovos, we're transforming tax compliance from a business requirement into a driver of growth through AI-powered technology that delivers the accurate, real-time insights businesses need to make smarter decisions.

We're solving more than today's tax compliance challenges. We're helping reshape global economies by enabling organizations to navigate increasingly complex and rapidly changing regulatory environments with confidence – and helping communities thrive.

AI is accelerating what's possible, enabling tax and technology professionals to more effectively drive critical regulatory decisions. That's where Sovos excels, combining intelligent technology with human expertise to help customers stay ahead of change.

At Sovos, we're building the future of embedded compliance through partnerships with Independent Software Vendors and Business Process Outsource rs around the world. As a Senior Embedded ISV Sales Engineer, you'll serve as the technical bridge between our partner-facing sales team and our compliance platform, translating complex capabilities into solutions that partners can evaluate, integrate, and scale. This is a technical sales role that sits at the intersection of business development, solution architecture, and partner enablement, and you'll be part of a global team driving one of our most strategic initiatives.

• Partner directly with the Embedded ISV team across the full sales cycle, providing technical credibility and platform expertise from initial partner outreach through solution scoping, technical validation, and close.
• Lead technical discovery with prospective ISV and BPO partners, understanding their platform architecture, integration approach, customer base, and compliance requirements, and translating findings into a technical fit assessment and proposed solution.
• Deliver product demonstrations, technical presentations, and proof-of-concept support that show how Sovos' compliance APIs and platform embed into partner architectures.
• Provide expert guidance on APIs, authentication, webhooks, data flows, deployment models, testing environments, SLAs, and platform architecture, leveraging AI tools where appropriate to improve partner enablement and streamline technical communication.
• Maintain a working command of Sovos' compliance product suite, roadmap, and technical documentation sufficient to represent the platform credibly in both pre-sales and post-sales partner conversations.
• Contribute to the development of technical sales assets, including demo environments, solution diagrams, integration FAQs, and technical qualification criteria, that scale the embedded partner motion.
• Maintain accurate records of technical engagements, partner technical health, and open issues in CRM and partner tracking tools, in coordination with the sales team's opportunity and account plans.

• You have experience in sales engineering, solutions engineering, technical account management, or pre-sales/post-sales technical support, ideally supporting enterprise software, SaaS, or embedded/API-led partnerships.
• You're comfortable engaging technical stakeholders such as architects, integration leads, and engineering managers, as well as commercial and product stakeholders, without requiring hands-on coding.
• You have working knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, authentication (OAuth, API keys), cloud architecture, and SaaS integration patterns, enough to evaluate technical fit and speak credibly with a partner's technical team. Comfort with AI-assisted workflows and tools is a plus.
• You understand, or have a strong aptitude to learn, compliance business processes such as e-invoicing, e-reporting, tax determination, filings, certificate management, and identity verification.
• You can translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-relevant language for both partner executives and internal sales teams, and you have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation, demo delivery, and partner-facing presentations.
• You bring strong cross-functional collaboration skills, working closely with Sales, Solution…