Presales Engineer

We are the scale-up that builds the financial services and payment experiences that users love!

When we founded Powens, we set out on a journey to reinvent banking. Along the way, we realized we also wanted to give users control over their data and take financial services to new places. Ultimately, creating the best apps and making banking, financial services, and payments more user-friendly requires an extensive framework.

With the support of the investment fund PSG Growth Equity ($35M raised in 2022), we strive to build Europe’s number one Open Finance platform, so banks and fintechs can innovate at light speed.

Powens is a trusted partner to over 230 top financial players across Europe. We’re committed to empowering them to build better banking and payment experiences. Together, we’re empowering both consumers and businesses while creating the future of Open Finance.

Who are we ?

Powens is a multicultural team with 130 employees from all backgrounds. We recruit different types of positions (Tech, Product, Sales, etc.) and are looking for talents who share our values:

• We are bold ⚔️ We are audacious and value risk-taking. We accept failure because it is part of innovation
• We are committed 🎯 We are engaged and involved in our daily work. We don’t give up and want to make things happen
• We work as a team 🤝 For us, individualities are at the service of the collective. We value mutual support, feedback and kindness within our teams
• We strive for the best 🚀 Our goals are ambitious. We always strive to be better, thinking things over is part of our culture

Powens has above all a strong tech culture and an expertise recognized on the European market. Innovation is part of our identity. It is what has enabled us to open the way to Open Finance.

What drives us is to take up challenges together and to develop use cases: create new products, develop our platform in Europe, or to make a better use of banking and financial data to empower consumers and businesses.

What guides us is our ambition : to design the first Open Finance platform in Europe, to conquer new markets and to revolutionize financial services.

As a Pre-Sales Engineer, your main objective is to support the sales teams in the pre-sales phase with your functional expertise.

Your missions:

• Provide an expertise to the sales team during the sales process (collection of technical needs and required functionalities, definition of API configurations, qualification of integration capabilities,…)

• Facilitate customer meetings to discuss their needs & pains, present the products and features best suited to their needs

• Understand and project the customer’s workflow and user experience to validate Powens’ value proposition in their context

• Respond to the functional part of RFI, RFQ, Due Diligence calls for tenders

• Delivering technical and/or product presentations and demonstrations that show the value of the platform

What we offer:

• Attractive package

• 100% online health insurance (Alan),

• 25 holiday days + a minimum of 10 RTT days per year,

• Flexible remote working policy and IT equipments at your disposal,

• Swile meal ticket card (11€ per day),

• Office in the center of Paris (rue Beaubourg),

• Corporate events: team building, company parties, annual seminar …

• Friendly working environment in the center of Paris: Nintendo Switch, pastries…

• 3 years minimum of experience in an Pre-Sales / Solution Engineer / IT Consultant position, in a SaaS software company or in an IT company

• Customer oriented with good communication skills, previous customer contact experience is a must

• Functional expertise in one of these domain will be a plus : Credit & financing, Invest & wealth management, Daily banking services or Payment & bank transfer

• Fluent French & English (written and spoken), another European language is a plus

• HR phone interview

• Online interview with the Chief Commercial Officer

• Case study

• Cultural fit with the Chief Revenue Officer