Professional Services Engineer II – SOAR & AI Automation in Columbus

Founded in 2018 with co-headquarters in Dublin and Boston, Tines powers some of the world's most important workflows. Our intelligent workflow platform applies AI, automation, and integration with human ingenuity to drive real business results.

Tines serves a diverse range of customers, from startups to public companies, including Canva, Databricks, Elastic, Kayak, Intercom, and McKesson. As an integrator across the entire tech stack, Tines is vendor-agnostic — integrating with any API-enabled service. This flexibility enables our customers to achieve their highest-priority goals faster. Because Tines is secure and private by design, it's popular with security, IT, engineering, finance, and other security-focused teams.

At Tines, we're driven by our values of Simplicity, Speed, and Soundness. We're committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences while fostering a company culture that nurtures individual curiosity, growth, and integrity.

This is a remote role that must be based in MST or PST.

As a key member of our Customer Success organization, the Professional Services Engineer II serves as a technical authority in the Tines platform, specializing in integrating and optimizing workflow automation solutions across customer enterprises.

In this role, you will guide customers through scoping automation Stories and workflows to suit their individual requirements, then design, build, and deploy these solutions in the customer tenant. These Stories and workflows will be instrumental in kick-starting the customer's automation journey and ensuring that they and their team feel the benefits of smart, secure workflows.

You will partner with our Engagement Management, Customer Success, and Project Management Teams to align on project goals and timelines, guaranteeing that client implementations are successful and meet predefined success criteria.

Professional Services Engineers at Tines engage with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Labs. This collaboration ensures that service offerings and product enhancements align with evolving customer requirements. The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to enhancing customer productivity through advanced automation solutions, leveraging their technical expertise to transform client operations without the necessity for manual coding.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, Professional Services Engineering, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

What you will be doing:

• Shape the future of our Professional Services organization and contribute to the development of processes and procedures.
• Tackle challenging Story and workflow builds to power our customers' most important workflows.
• Scope automation Stories and workflows based on customer requirements, identifying blockers and research areas needed.
• Analyze customer tools, processes, and pain points to guide them in establishing an automation roadmap.
• Identify and highlight what is, and what isn't, suitable for an automation workflow.
• Work with the Project Manager and Engagement Manager to verify and validate services, project plans, and timelines.
• Demonstrate Stories and workflows to illustrate concepts and ideas to the customer, including wire-framing live on calls.
• Design and develop Automation Stories and workflows in the customer Tines tenant, connecting tools together using their APIs.
• Partner closely with customers to ensure Stories and workflows meet their requirements and provide guidance on test plans.
• Review and suggest optimizations for customer stories and workflows.
• Deliver documented, production-ready stories to customers and ensure they are set up for long-term success.
• Act as a resident automation engineer for customers, helping them plan their automation roadmap and achieve their automation goals.
• Advocate for the Professional Services Team within Tines, working with Sales teams to ensure they can speak to our capabilities and achievements.

What you bring with you:

• 5+ years of experience delivering Professional Services and implementing SOAR platforms or similar automation solutions.
• Strong customer-facing skills and experience in a consultancy role.
• Ability to serve as a trusted advisor to customers, guiding them on best practices, architecture design, and platform adoption strategies.
• A passion for becoming an expert in Tines.
• Experience interpreting and applying API documentation.
• Experience with a range of API authentication methods including OAuth2 and JWT.
• Experience using and troubleshooting APIs to connect to a variety of security and/or IT tools.
• General understanding of how LLMs, agents, and automation models work (capabilities, limitations, prompt design).
• Ability to craft and refine prompts to get reliable, accurate outputs.
• Proficiency in translating platform capabilities into customer-specific use cases, advising on AI-driven vs. deterministic aspects of workflows.
• Passionate about supporting customers and helping them automate repetitive and manual workflows.

Target Annual Earnings (salary + commission): $120K–$145K

Applicants for this opportunity must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

At Tines, we're all about trying new things and taking the leap. If you're second-guessing your application, we hope you'll trust your gut and take the leap too! A variety of experience, perspectives, and voices makes us the company we are. We'd love to hear from you.

Tines provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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