PermitFlow is redefining how America builds by modernizing the pre-construction process with AI. This Sales Engineer role is foundational, partnering with Enterprise AEs to technically validate solutions, design custom workflows, and scope integrations. You'll bridge customer operational realities with platform capabilities, ensuring practical and scalable implementations for construction permitting, licensing, and inspections. The role requires deep industry understanding and technical translation skills to accelerate housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development.

Must Have

• Partner with Enterprise AEs to support complex sales cycles with technical validation.
• Design custom workflow configurations leveraging PermitFlow's platform capabilities.
• Scope and document technical integrations (ServiceTitan, Salesforce).
• Translate operational language into technical requirements.
• Deliver tailored demos and proof-of-concepts.
• Collaborate with Product, Implementation, and Customer Success for successful deployment.
• Create repeatable solution assets like integration guides and workflow templates.
• Deep understanding of construction, permitting, or pre-construction workflows.
• Skilled at mapping customer processes and designing scalable solutions.
• Comfortable scoping technical integrations and data flows.
• Experienced supporting enterprise sales teams through discovery, demos, and solution validation.
• Able to bridge customer pain points and product capabilities.
• Works fluidly across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Implementation.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO and paid family leave
• Home office & equipment stipend
• Hybrid NYC office culture (3 days in-office/week) with direct access to leadership
• In-Office Lunch & Dinner Provided

About PermitFlow

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. Pre-construction remains one of the most broken and manual parts of the $1.6T construction industry, causing massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity across the built world. Our AI workforce delivers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to pre-construction — accelerating housing development, enabling clean-energy projects, and driving economic growth in communities nationwide. To date, we’ve powered over $20B in real estate development, helping builders and contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re entering hypergrowth with clear product-market fit and a world-class team from top AI and construction companies. We’ve raised over $36.5M from Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures, alongside backers from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. We are on a mission is to modernize how the built world operates.

About the role

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.

Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence.

America is entering a CAPEX super-cycle, from data centers and factories to housing and renewables, and joining PermitFlow is building the AI at the heart of every construction project powering the next wave of re-industrialization.

We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.

Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

Why PermitFlow Wants You

This is a foundational GTM role that combines industry credibility with integration know-how to help customers modernize how they build. You’ll partner closely with Sales but you’re not a seller - your role is to help customers understand how PermitFlow fits into their existing systems, why it matters to their operations, and what it will take to implement successfully.

You’ll act as the connective tissue between our customers’ operational realities and our platform’s technical capabilities - ensuring every solution we propose is practical, scalable, and ready to deploy.

As PermitFlow scales, this function will become increasingly central to how we sell, scope, and implement enterprise-wide solutions - anchoring around your expertise in workflow design, integrations, and industry operations.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Enterprise AEs to support complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, with strong focus on technical validation.
• Design custom workflow configurations that leverage PermitFlow’s platform capabilities and align with customer business goals
• Scope and document technical integrations (ServiceTitan, Salesforce) to ensure seamless adoption
• Translate between operational language and technical requirements - ensuring customers, Sales, and Product all stay aligned
• Deliver tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase how PermitFlow integrates into existing workflows
• Collaborate with Product, Implementation, and Customer Success to ensure successful handoff and deployment
• Create repeatable solution assets — integration guides, workflow templates, demo scripts — to scale the team as we grow

Who You Are

• Domain Expert: Deep understanding of construction, permitting, or pre-construction workflows; can speak credibly with contractors, builders, and developers.
• Workflow Designer & Solution Creative: Skilled at mapping customer processes, identifying bottlenecks, and designing elegant, scalable solutions.
• Integration-Savvy: Comfortable scoping technical integrations and data flows across tools like ServiceTitan, or Salesforce.
• Sales Partner: Experienced supporting enterprise sales teams through discovery, demos, and solution validation.
• Technical Translator: Able to bridge customer pain points and product capabilities—simplifying complex tech for executive audiences.
• Cross-Functional Operator: Works fluidly across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Implementation to align on deliverables and ensure success.
• Builder Mentality: Thrives in ambiguity and enjoys creating structure, content, and processes from scratch.
• Mission-Driven: Energized by fixing the fragmented pre-construction process and transforming how America builds

How Success Will Be Measured

• Win rate and quality of supported enterprise deals
• Accuracy and scalability of scoped solutions
• Strength of internal and customer relationships
• Contribution to sales productivity and playbook development
• Successful alignment between what’s sold and what’s delivered

What We Offer (Full Time Roles Only)

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO and paid family leave
• Home office & equipment stipend
• Hybrid NYC office culture (3 days in-office/week) with direct access to leadership
• In-Office Lunch & Dinner Provided