Pre-Sales Solutions Architect (SA) Leader

ABOUT SUPABASE Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. ABOUT THE ROLE The Pre-Sales Solutions Architect (SA) Leader owns the health, direction, and performance of the Solutions Architecture function. Where an individual SA is the technical owner within the sales cycle for their assigned opportunities, the SA Leader is accountable for technical win rate and deal velocity across the entire pre-sales motion — every channel the team supports, and the people who deliver against it. The SA Leader is a player-coach: they carry direct accountability for channel coverage, the most strategic or highest-stakes evaluations, and cross-functional GTM alignment, while spending the majority of their time developing individual SAs so the team's proactive, commercially-sharp approach scales without becoming order-taking. Compensation Note: SA Leader compensation is tied to team-wide ARR bookings — new logo, expansion, and multi-year commitments across every SA's pipeline, not just deals the Leader personally works. The Leader is expected to operate with the same commercial mindset as the team, at portfolio scale. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES PEOPLE LEADERSHIP & TEAM DEVELOPMENT The SA Leader hires, coaches, and grows the SA team so each member operates as a credible, commercially sharp technical partner in the sales cycle. This includes: - Hiring and onboarding new SAs, including calibrating them against the channel-specific technical evaluation prompts - Running regular 1:1s, reviewing deal strategy, PoC scoping, and objection handling, and giving direct feedback - Building and maintaining repeatable playbooks (discovery frameworks, PoC templates, objection/RFP responses, competitive positioning) so quality doesn't depend on tenure - Setting and holding the team to a cons