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Salary: USD 220,000 - 250,000 / annual
Notion is seeking a founding Global Demo Engineer to build and scale the demo engine that brings Notion's most important customer stories to life. This is a high-impact opportunity to establish a new function from the ground up, working closely with Sales, Forward Deployed Engineering, Enablement, and Product Marketing.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build the global demo engine and establish scalable standards, systems, and processes. Partner with Enablement and PMM to define core narratives, scripts, environments, and assets. Create durable release and versioning processes to keep demos current as the product evolves. Automate repeatable setup and maintenance to enable global scaling.
- Transform Notion's strongest customer and internal solutions into reusable go-to-market assets. Identify high-impact use cases and turn them into repeatable, field-ready demos. Partner with FDE to package customer solutions, implementation guidance, and technical patterns. Work with GTM Systems to translate demos into deployable workspaces.
- Set the global standard for demo quality and coach the field to deliver it. Define what great looks like for each demo moment from initial customer conversation through tailored technical experiences. Train and coach customer-facing teams on storytelling, environment setup, delivery, and troubleshooting. Create practical resources and programs to raise demo quality across regions.
- Create a clear path from experimentation to global scale. Give customer-facing teams a structured way to safely build, test, and pilot new demo concepts. Evaluate strongest ideas and turn them into scalable standards, templates, and reusable assets.
- Serve as strategic demo partner for high-impact opportunities. Advise teams on custom or personalized demos outside the standard portfolio. Help teams balance customer relevance, technical credibility, and speed.
The role is based in San Francisco or New York City with anchor days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) in the office. It reports to the Global Head of Acquisition.
Requirements:
- 5+ years in a technical or customer-facing role such as Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Demo Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Software Engineering
- Experience designing and delivering technical demos, prototypes, or solution experiences for a SaaS product
- Strong systems thinking with experience building scalable standards, templates, documentation, versioning practices, and operating processes
- Ability to translate complex product capabilities into clear, compelling customer stories tied to business value
- Technical fluency across APIs, integrations, automation, data, permissions, and enterprise security concepts
- Working proficiency with scripting or automation tools such as Python or JavaScript
- Experience partnering across Sales, Product, Engineering, Enablement, and Marketing to drive alignment
- Strong communication and coaching skills to raise capabilities of customer-facing teams
- Comfort creating structure, setting priorities, and making progress in fast-moving environment with evolving requirements
Nice to haves:
- Experience building or scaling a demo engineering, solutions engineering, or technical enablement function
- Experience with enterprise sales cycles and complex, multi-stakeholder customer environments
- Hands-on experience with demo automation platforms (Consensus, Navattic, Reprise, Storylane, Demostack)
- Experience supporting major product launches or global go-to-market programs
- Familiarity with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
- Experience with productivity, collaboration, AI, or horizontal SaaS products
- Notion power user
