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Clearly AI is the continuous threat modeling platform that gives security, privacy, and GRC teams the capacity to cover more, with accurate, source-cited assessments that enterprise teams trust.\nWe're live with Fortune 500s and global brands including Rivian, Ericsson, HID Global, PayPal, and others. We've reviewed thousands of security-critical products, from badge scanners to stablecoin platforms to autonomous driving features.\nBacked by Y Combinator, Basis Set Ventures, Crosspoint Capital, Argon Ventures, and Ritual Capital. Selected as a Top 10 Finalist for the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest. Advised by former CISOs of Disney, Costco, Amplitude, Chevron, the former CEO of Reddit, and the former CPO of Brex.\nWe are early. We are deeply technical. We are building alongside real practitioners, and we want a real practitioner who can stand in front of our buyers and be believed.\nLocation\nSeattle/SF preferred, remote OK. We meet in person 1-2x per quarter. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.\nWhy this role exists\nOur buyers are security, AppSec, GRC, and privacy leaders at Fortune 500s who will stress-test the product and then stress-test us. They need someone who can:\nUnderstand how their reviews actually run across threat modeling, privacy, and vendor risk\n\nDemo Clearly AI against their own artifacts and processes, not a generic sandbox\n\nDesign and run proofs of value against written success criteria\n\nAnswer architecture and data-handling questions live, in front of people who will check the answer\n\nThis role exists to own the technical case, paired with Sales, who runs the deal.\nWhat you'll own\n1. Technical discovery and demos\nGo deep on how a prospect runs reviews today, and spot which part will break before they do\n\nPush on the stated request to find the real goal. Often the right answer is smaller than what they asked for\n\nBuild demos on their own use case and artifacts, not a generic sandbox\n\n2. Proof of value\nTurn vague asks like \"less effort\" or \"reasonable quality\" into criteria a POV can pass or fail\n\nStand up tenants, load their knowledge, queue historical and live cases\n\nRun the midpoint check and the technical readout against what the customer signed\n\n3. The technical conversation\nOwn the architecture questions that decide enterprise deals: tenancy and data isolation, SSO/SAML/SCIM, deployment patterns, model providers, data residency, audit defensibility\n\nAnswer accuracy and hallucination objections with evidence, and carry our security posture through their vendor review\n\nExplain honestly where we fit against threat modeling tools, scanners, GRC platforms, and building it in-house\n\n4. The reusable layer\nTurn evaluation friction into specific, reproducible feedback for engineering\n\nBuild the demo environments, POV templates, and technical answers the team can use without you\n\nWhat this role is not\nNot our Forward Deployed Security Engineer role; you hand off at signature rather than running production onboarding\n\nNot a product management role\n\nNot a role where you read someone else's demo script\n\nWhat we're looking for\nRequired\n5+ years either running security and privacy reviews for large enterprises, or in a sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales role selling to security teams\n\nCommand of enterprise security architecture: tenancy and data isolation, data residency, AI governance\n\nAbility to speak the language of security practitioners (STRIDE, DPIA, TPRM, CVE, SSDLC)\n\nExperience running a multi-week technical engagement to a deadline without it drifting\n\nFamiliarity with Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, Confluence, or OneTrust, and how review workflows live inside them\n\nClear writing. Success criteria, test plans, and readouts are the deliverables here\n\nStrongly preferred\nHands-on experience with threat modeling, privacy impact assessments, or vendor risk assessments\n\nWorking knowledge of enterprise identity and deployment plumbing: SSO/SAML/SCIM, IP allowlisting, model providers\n\nExperience working in early-stage startups\n\nYou do not need to have carried a quota or held a sales title. 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