The Team + The Role

Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the company’s pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team supports growth by bringing technical ownership across the full customer lifecycle, from discovery and evaluation through implementation, adoption, retention, and expansion.

As a Customer Engineer, you are the primary technical resource for a portfolio of Commercial accounts. You partner with Account Directors to own discovery, demos, onboarding, technical health, risk, and expansion strategy. You serve as a trusted technical advisor who helps customers drive outcomes with Pendo.

This role is based in our Raleigh office.

What this looks like day-to-day

• Customer acquisition: Partner with Account Directors to understand customer pain, business goals, and technical requirements. Craft and deliver demos, define success criteria, guide installation, and lead hands-on technical evaluations and workshops.
• Technical discovery and implementation: Lead discovery conversations across product stacks, integration environments, and customer goals. Own onboarding for purchased modules, troubleshoot integrations, and answer technical questions related to APIs, data models, configuration, and front-end implementation.
• Adoption and value: Monitor usage signals, identify low adoption or configuration drift, and act before issues become escalations. Facilitate enablement workshops, support account health planning, and help customers measure and articulate the ROI of Pendo.
• Retention and expansion: Identify technical expansion paths in your portfolio and hand them to Account Directors with clear deployment plans and business rationale. Support growth opportunities by bringing a strong technical point of view on customer needs, readiness, and value.
• Risk ownership: Own the technical dimension of account risk, including champion turnover, integration issues, stalled rollouts, and technical blockers. Document risks in Salesforce, build mitigation plans with Account Directors, execute resolutions, and escalate to leadership when broader support is needed.
• Account operations: Maintain accurate account documentation in Salesforce and keep Account Directors informed on priorities, risks, and next steps. Use tools including Salesforce, Pendo admin, Gong, and AI workflows to support account research, call preparation, knowledge capture, and troubleshooting.
• Team contribution: Contribute to the Customer Engineering knowledge base, document fixes, share playbooks, and coach peers. Own outcomes beyond your portfolio by helping improve how the team works, scales, and solves recurring technical challenges.

Who You Are

Beyond the qualifications, we hire through a specific lens. These aren't buzzwords; they're the things we'll actually look for in how you talk about your work.

You're a builder, not a maintainer.

You're most energized when there isn't a clear path yet, and you get to define it. You don't wait for direction; you identify gaps, shape solutions, and drive them forward. At Pendo, great Customer Engineers don't just follow instructions; they operate as strategic advisors, influencing decisions, guiding stakeholders, and elevating how we work.

You're AI-curious - genuinely.

You're not using AI tools occasionally. You're rewiring how you work around them. You're faster, sharper, and more prolific because of it, and you bring that energy to everything — how you approach your work, how you prep, how you communicate, how you think. We want someone who sees AI as a multiplier, not a shortcut.

Must-haves

• 3 to 5 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Account Management, Customer Success Engineering, implementation, or professional services.
• Hands-on experience with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and REST APIs, with the ability to inspect, troubleshoot, and configure front-end implementations.
• Experience managing a portfolio of accounts with competing priorities, customer needs, technical workstreams, and commercial deadlines.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including customers, Account Directors, and internal stakeholders.
• Experience working in enterprise software and complex B2B customer environments.
• Active use of AI tools to accelerate workflows such as account research, call preparation, troubleshooting, and knowledge capture.
• Ability to operate effectively in a pod model by knowing when to lead, when to partner with an Account Director, and how to stay aligned across the customer lifecycle.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Pendo, digital adoption platforms, product analytics, or in-app experience tooling.
• Familiarity with product management, user experience, or digital transformation domains.
• Experience with data integration, event tracking, or analytics instrumentation.
• Track record of owning technical metrics such as adoption and implementation quality alongside commercial outcomes such as retention and expansion.

About Pendo

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers: a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success. Our mission is to improve society's experience with software. Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech.

Pendo Core Values: Bias to Act, Hone Your Craft, The Team is Pendo, and Maniacal Focus.

Location: Pendo is a hybrid culture. In-office 3 days per week unless designated remote.

Compensation: The expected On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is USD $158,959 - USD $198,699, with a 70/30 base-to-variable compensation split.

Benefits: Highly competitive, employer-heavy coverage including $0 premium options, strong 401(k) match, equity, and flexible time off.

EEOC: We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams where everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome all people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Accessibility: Pendo is committed to working with, and providing access and reasonable accommodation to, applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to: accommodation@pendo.io. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.

The Team + The Role

Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work that has historically sat across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo.

As a Senior Customer Engineer, you own strategic and complex Enterprise accounts across acquisition, implementation, adoption, expansion, and escalation. You lead technical strategy for complex deployments, resolve ambiguous customer challenges, and partner closely with account teams to drive retention, expansion, and customer value. Your impact extends beyond your own accounts through playbooks, coaching, repeatable fixes, and workflow improvements that raise the capability of the broader Customer Engineering team.

This is a remote role supporting a South East territory. 

What this looks like day-to-day

• New customer acquisition and selling: Partner with Account Directors on pre-sales motions for new customer acquisition, product expansion, and expansion across lines of business. You identify customer pain, craft and deliver tailored demos, and lead technical evaluations through requirements gathering, success criteria, installation guidance, and hands-on workshops.
• Complex implementations and value realization: Lead onboarding for strategic customers, including planning, implementation, integrations, and training. You build customer-specific implementation playbooks, guide complex deployments with executive visibility, and ensure customers realize value during onboarding and over time.
• Adoption, expansion, and growth: Identify opportunities to expand adoption across underutilized features, untapped products, and new lines of business. When adoption stalls, you diagnose root causes, design a path forward, and connect technical work to measurable business outcomes.
• Technical escalation: Serve as an escalation point for complex technical challenges raised by other Customer Engineers. You resolve ambiguous problems with multiple variables and tradeoffs, involving Product or Engineering only when truly needed.
• Team capability building: Build playbooks, document repeatable fixes, coach peers, and improve how Customer Engineering work gets done across the team. You use AI tools to accelerate content creation, surface patterns across accounts, and share practical workflow findings with the broader team.
• Early account impact: Assess account health, risks, stakeholder relationships, and the highest-priority problems to solve within your portfolio. You establish trust with Account Directors and customer stakeholders, then independently lead complex customer interactions that move accounts forward.
• Quarterly business outcomes: Drive measurable improvement in customer health, retention, expansion, and technical resolution across strategic accounts. You contribute reusable frameworks, playbooks, or processes that other Customer Engineers use and become a trusted advisor to Account Directors on account health and technical strategy.

Who You Are

Beyond the qualifications, we hire through a specific lens. These aren't buzzwords; they're the things we'll actually look for in how you talk about your work.

You're a builder, not a maintainer.

You're most energized when there isn't a clear path yet, and you get to define it. You don't wait for direction; you identify gaps, shape solutions, and drive them forward. At Pendo, great Senior Customer Engineers don't just follow instructions; they operate as strategic advisors, influencing decisions, guiding stakeholders, and elevating how we work.

You're AI-curious - genuinely.

You're not using AI tools occasionally. You're rewiring how you work around them. You're faster, sharper, and more prolific because of it, and you bring that energy to everything — how you approach your work, how you prep, how you communicate, how you think. We want someone who sees AI as a multiplier, not a shortcut.

Must-haves

• 5 to 8 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Account Management, Customer Engineering, implementation, professional services, or solutions architecture.
• Deep hands-on experience with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and REST APIs, with the ability to architect and troubleshoot complex front-end implementations.
• Proven experience managing strategic Enterprise accounts with executive-level stakeholders, competing priorities, and complex technical or business requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems involving multiple variables, constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Experience connecting technical execution to business outcomes such as retention, expansion, ROI, and value realization.
• Hands-on use of AI tools for account research, content creation, or workflow automation, with demonstrated integration into day-to-day work rather than light experimentation.
• Experience mentoring or coaching more junior technical team members.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Pendo, digital adoption platforms, product analytics, or in-app experience tooling in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience with mobile app development, including Swift, Android, or React Native.
• Familiarity with data architecture, AI or machine learning concepts, or advanced analytics instrumentation.
• Track record of building reusable frameworks, playbooks, or processes that were adopted by a broader team.

About Pendo

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers: a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success. Our mission is to improve society's experience with software. Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech.

Pendo Core Values: Bias to Act, Hone Your Craft, The Team is Pendo, and Maniacal Focus.

Location: Remote

Compensation: The expected On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is $193,393 - $241,742, with a 70/30 base-to-variable compensation split.

Benefits: Pendo offers highly competitive United States benefits, including employer-heavy coverage with $0 premium options, strong 401(k) match, equity, and flexible time off.

EEOC: We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams where everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome all people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Accessibility: Pendo is committed to working with, and providing access and reasonable accommodation to, applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to: accommodation@pendo.io. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.

Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), the most beloved educator brand used by 85% of K-12 teachers in the US and the world’s largest catalog of educator-created content, is seeking Software Engineers who have a passion for technology and education to help us add new features and continue to build out our successful educator-focused marketplace. You’ll be tackling problems big and small - from search & personalization to multi-service orchestration to building a resilient API. 

This position requires you to be in our Raleigh, NC, area office. 

Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), the most beloved educator brand used by 85% of K-12 teachers in the US and the world’s largest catalog of educator-created content, is seeking Senior Software Engineers who have a passion for technology and education to help us add new features and continue to build out our successful educator-focused marketplace. You’ll be tackling problems big and small - from search & personalization to multi-service orchestration to building a resilient API. 

This position requires you to be in our Raleigh, NC, area office. 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Work with a team of talented engineers, both starting projects from scratch and also working within the existing code base 
• Build the back-end wiring, application logic and UI for our products 
• Drive the development process for your team, including designing, coding, documenting, testing, debugging and tuning
• Provide accurate estimates, evaluate feasibility and assess new platforms and technologies for project implementations
• Collaborate and communicate clearly across multiple development teams to design and release amazing products
• Mentor teammates, communicate and teach your learnings

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Excellent programming skills in an object-oriented language
• Experience with web development practices and tools, including SQL databases, caching strategies, backend APIs, Javascript, and CSS
• Experience with building, scaling, and monitoring resilient systems
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical-reasoning and problem-solving skills
• Passion for improving education through technology

Relay is the Intelligent System of Action for the physical economy. While the digital revolution has historically left the deskless workforce behind, we are closing that gap by transforming analog frontline operations into a data-rich, AI-powered ecosystem.

With a staggering 461% three-year revenue growth rate, Raleigh, NC-based Relay was recently ranked #175 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and #920 on the Inc. 5000. 

We aren’t just selling radios; we are building the digital foundation for the 80% of the global workforce that doesn't work at a desk.

Why Join Relay?

• A Proven Winner: Join a hyper-growth company trusted by over 10% of the Fortune 500 and a dozen of the Fortune 100.
• High Value, High Impact: With 47% of our revenue coming from $100K+ ARR customers and a 135% Net Revenue Retention (NRR), you will be joining a company rooted in value creation.
• Market-Leading Innovation: The Relay platform captures 1 billion new data points weekly and features award-winning AI tools like TeamTranslate™, which has seen 500% YoY growth.
• World-Class Leadership: Our already stellar C-suite has been bolstered by leaders to help us scale toward our next major milestones.
• The Relay Culture: Work from our amenity-rich Raleigh campus (fitness center, sports courts) with 100% paid health insurance and a team dedicated to "Best Work In My Life" (BWIML).

If you're passionate about technology, driven to make a difference and align your work to a bigger mission, and excited to join a company that's shaping the future of frontline work, we encourage you to explore opportunities at Relay!

This is a full-time, in-office role based in our Raleigh, NC headquarters, requiring 4 days per week in the company office (Monday - Friday). This role is anticipated to have travel requirements up to 20%.

Role Overview:

The Customer Success Specialist II (Hospitality) is a vital revenue-owner and value-driver within our hospitality sector. The role is a tactical strategist responsible for managing a dedicated Mid-Market book of business, focusing on site-level health, value realization, and retention. Our CSS’s ensure that our customers are leveraging Relay’s core value proposition and latest roadmap applications to drive operational excellence.

In this role, you will master the customer life-cycle for a wide array of use cases. Our specialists independently interprets health metrics, conducts deep discovery to uncover unique business problems Relay can solve, and builds multi-threaded relationships within accounts. The focus is on mid-market site stability, identifying expansion opportunities that fuel our growth while maintaining a "lockdown" defense on retention targets.

Relay is at a transformative inflection point, moving from a product-centric communications business to a platform-centric AI leader for the frontline. As a CSS in Hospitality, you are the practitioner ensuring this vision translates into reality across a variety of hospitality accounts. This role offers the opportunity to develop the customer journey for a portfolio where no two days are the same. You aren't just following a playbook; you are using pattern recognition across different accounts to refine how we position value, making you a key contributor in shaping our customer and whole-product experience.

What You'll Do:

• Revenue Ownership (Retention & Site Expansion): Own the net-revenue growth for your mid-market portfolio. You are responsible for safeguarding retention and identifying site-level expansion opportunities, such as user growth, feature upsells, and proactive hardware refreshes.
• Value Realization & Book Management: Proactively manage accounts across the lifecycle, using data to assess performance and prioritize efforts. You will move beyond status reporting to explain why metrics change, connecting trends to customer behavior and specific industry context to ensure maximum ROI.
• Multi-Threaded Relationship Building: Cultivate intentional stakeholder relationships across departments and functions. You will track professional milestones and organizational news to strengthen rapport and ensure Relay is woven into the customer’s daily operations.
• Outcome-Driven Discovery & Product Credibility: Independently conduct discovery to uncover business problems Relay can solve beyond current usage. Apply in-depth product knowledge to solve site-level challenges. You will frame opportunities in terms of customer outcomes and operational impact, qualifying value with clear context and rationale.
• Cross-Functional Advocacy: Serve as the "Voice of the Customer" internally. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales to ensure that general roadmap applications are effectively positioned for our largest industry sector. Partner with Support and Billing to ensure any escalations have timely resolution.
• Operational Excellence: Optimize the use of internal tools and systems to improve account management efficiency. You will identify and resolve process or technical breakdowns that affect customer outcomes, ensuring a seamless journey from initial launch through long-term partnership.

What You'll Have:

• Experience: 3+ years in Customer Success or Account Management, specifically managing a high-volume book of mid-market accounts. A proven track record of retention, expansion, and lead generation is essential.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to independently interpret health and usage metrics to assess account performance. You don't just see data; you see the story behind it and can recommend the next best action to drive adoption.
• Commercial Acumen: Proven experience owning a revenue expansion and retention number. You are comfortable navigating contract renewals and connecting product features to a customer’s bottom line.
• Strategic Communication: Ability to communicate with structure and intent. You can synthesize complex customer data into clear narratives and navigate difficult conversations with composure and empathy.
• Sector Curiosity: A self-starter who stays engaged with industry trends. You apply self-taught knowledge of the segments you manage to strengthen your account strategies and build credibility in customer partnerships.
• Technical Aptitude: Capability to master a sophisticated hardware + software platform. You can articulate Relay’s technical advantages and help customers navigate the transition from legacy tools to modern AI-enabled technology.
• The "CSS" Mentality: You model strong ownership and adaptability. You are a problem-solver who can restructure your execution strategy based on feedback and pattern recognition to improve site-level outcomes.

About us: Relay culture, benefits & perks:

First and foremost our culture hinges on you being LIT up in an environment that fosters learning, impact, and teamwork (LIT) where Relayers can do the best work in their lives. We call this BWIML (pronounced bee wimmel = Best Work In My Life)!

It's truly amazing what happy, engaged team members can achieve. Our ever evolving list of benefits and perks mean you'll be able to integrate work into your whole life, focus on health, perform impactful work, grow in your role, look after yourself/your family, and invest in your future. 

At Relay, we offer...

• 100% Paid Insurance Health, Dental, Vision, Long/Short Term Disability and Life Insurance benefits for you and those who depend on you
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(K) Savings Plan + Company Match
• Baby Cash Reward + Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Perks, including a world-class onsite fitness center with instructor led classes + locker room as well as endless outdoor amenities whether tennis, basketball, cycling, or pickleball is your jam
• Free Snacks and Fun Times
• Latest tech, standing desks, and all the accessories and software you need to succeed in your role

The Relay Hybrid Work Model

At Relay, relationships are at the core of everything we do - and this translates to how we approach our customers and our work internally. Relay strives to be long-term relational partners versus transactional vendors to our customers. You will be encouraged to get in front of our customers and/or attend a trade show as a Relayer, regardless of your role. 

Internally, Relayers endeavor to build authentic, caring, and trusted relationships with each other.

With these principles in mind, and because we believe relationships are formed more quickly and deeply in-person, we greatly value the power of collaborating together with our customers on-site at their properties, and with each other in our spectacular and amenity-rich office.

Our relational approach is also at the heart of why we ask all Relayers in our hybrid model to work from the office a minimum of 3 days per week. 

At this time Relay is unable to provide sponsorship for employment. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the US and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working for Relay.