Vanta

GRC Pre-Sales Consultant / Solutions Engineer – EMEA

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London, United KingdomSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Own the technical relationship with prospects and customers as a strategic sales partner.
  • Partner with Account Executives on discovery, deal qualification, solution strategy, and deal shaping.
  • Validate technical feasibility, use cases, success criteria, risks, integrations, and customer environment alignment.
  • Deliver tailored demonstrations showing how Vanta automates and operationalises GRC programmes across SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA frameworks.
  • Support customers throughout their trial process.
  • Create complete post-sale handoff documentation covering solution design, expectations, risks, and constraints.
  • Provide structured customer and market feedback to the Product team.
  • Contribute to a collaborative, creative, open, and continuously improving team environment.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of customer-facing technical experience as a Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, GRC consultant, or equivalent, including prior B2B SaaS experience.
  • Strong technical problem-solving ability and experience identifying and validating technical, operational, and business pain points.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, active listening, and technical demonstration skills.
  • Ability to conduct strategic discovery, connect technical details to buyer impact, and guide stakeholders toward solution alignment.
  • Experience partnering with Account Executives on qualification, deal strategy, and delivery paths.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Windows, MacOS, Linux, and cloud application architecture.
  • General knowledge of a scripting language such as Python, Ruby, Bash, or JavaScript.
  • Strong organisation, attention to detail, and project management skills.
  • Familiarity with REST API development and service integrations is a plus.
  • Prior cybersecurity, GRC, governance, risk, compliance, or audit experience is preferred.
  • Willingness to use AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
  • Ability to work from the London or Dublin office three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday.

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits covered at 100%, including dependent coverage.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
  • Health and wellness stipend.
  • Remote workspace, internet, and mobile phone stipend.
  • Commuter benefits for office-based team members.
  • Pension matching.
  • 25 days of annual leave and unlimited sick time.
  • Eight company-paid holidays.
  • Virtual team-building activities, lunch-and-learns, and company-wide events.
  • Office locations include London and Dublin, with an office-centric hybrid schedule requiring three in-office days per week.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashGoogle CloudJavaScriptLinuxmacOSPythonRubyWindows

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Vanta

About Vanta

1,001-5,000 employees

Vanta is the #1 Agentic Trust Platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust. From startup to enterprise, Vanta is trusted by 15,000+ customers, including Atlassian, Duolingo, Icelandair, Ramp and Synthesia, to automate compliance, manage risk, and prove trust continuously—all from a single, AI-powered platform. - Automated Compliance: Automate evidence gathering with continuous monitoring to get you compliant and keep you secure. - Streamlined Audits: Collaborate seamlessly with auditors to help get you audit-ready, fast and hassle-free. - Risk Management: Centralize your IT risk to make informed decisions, whether you’re bringing your own program or building one from scratch. - Vendor Risk Management: Streamline vendor security reviews with AI-powered analysis and continuous monitoring of vendor attack surfaces. - Trust Center: Share your security and compliance posture with buyers with a public-facing Trust Center, and tie your security program to revenue. - Questionnaire Automation: Streamline security questionnaires by having Vanta AI take the first pass for you—so all you need to do is review, approve, and submit. - 375+ integrations: A market-leading ecosystem of over 375 integrations that powers 1,200+ automated, hourly tests, giving you continuous visibility into your compliance posture. - Vanta AI: Supercharge your team with AI-powered control mapping, evidence checks, questionnaire automation, and custom code snippets to remediate failing tests. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Investors include Sequoia, Wellington, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan, Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Ventures. Vanta has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best Workplaces, and Forbes’ Best Startup Employer lists.