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.

IXL Learning, developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is seeking an experienced, passionate educator to join our team as a Language Arts Curriculum Designer and help shape our exceptional K–12 language arts content. #LI-EM1

As a language arts curriculum designer at IXL, you will design engaging and interactive online activities and collaborate with software engineers, visual designers, and our team of writers and editors to bring your designs to life. Your educational insight, creative solutions, strong writing skills, and commitment to quality will make personalized learning a reality for millions of students.

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

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Design engaging and interactive language arts items to meet specified educational objectives
• Write and edit user-facing content and collaborate with our team of writers, editors, and illustrators to ensure content is fun, accurate, and age-appropriate
• Manage projects and collaborate with software engineers, visual designers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality language arts content
• Brainstorm ideas for improving IXL’s existing language arts content
• Research and review IXL's alignment to educational standards, common assessments, and popular textbooks or curricula
• Stay current on related scholarly and business trends

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in education, English, linguistics, or a related field
• English teaching, tutoring, or mentoring experience; experience in grades 6–12 is a plus
• Experience in curriculum development and instructional design is a plus
• Outstanding written and spoken communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with a wide range of age groups
• Ability to think strategically and creatively solve problems
• Can-do attitude with an openness to others' ideas and a strong attention to detail
• Ability to quickly learn new guidelines and software; familiarity with HTML, Jira, or spreadsheet formulas is a plus

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR APPLICATION

• Your resume
• A cover letter under 600 words that addresses the following questions: What are some challenges in developing online English Language Arts content for students in grades 6–12? How might your background and skill set help you address those challenges? (Please refrain from using ChatGPT or other AI tools when writing your cover letter. We want to get to know the real you!)