About Hologram
Hologram is building the future of IoT connectivity, delivering internet access to millions of connected devices worldwide. We process over 5 billion transactions per month across our global infrastructure—this isn't just another app, it's the invisible backbone powering everything from fleet tracking to smart city infrastructure. We tackle challenges of scale, reliability, and performance that few companies face.
What Makes a Hologrammer?We look for people with insatiable curiosity and an uncompromising commitment to excellence. Hologrammers are the type who dig deeper when things break, ask 'why' before 'how,' and aren’t satisfied until the solution is bulletproof.
You'll love working here if you:Value tenacious ownership of outcomes: You don't settle for surface-level fixes. You dig into customer use cases, drive your team to find root causes, and stay committed until customer IoT devices are reliably online in production.
Crave genuine technical challenges: You're drawn to problems that keep critical IoT systems running. Complex connectivity issues across networks, devices, and protocols energize you, and you know how to develop the expertise needed to continuously solve them at scale.
Relentlessly pursue growth: IoT technology evolves rapidly, and so do we. You embrace new challenges, quickly master emerging protocols and configurations, share knowledge to elevate your team.
Senior Manager, Solutions EngineeringRole OverviewThe Senior Manager of Solutions Engineering leads our post-sales technical team, responsible for ensuring new customers' IoT deployments successfully get online and stay connected throughout their entire lifecycle. This role combines people leadership with operational and strategic excellence. You'll lead a team of Solutions Engineers while optimizing the processes, tools, and systems that enable the team to deliver exceptional customer support, and act as the critical link between customer needs and product development.
Where You'll Make an ImpactTeam & Operations
- Lead and develop a team of 3 Solutions Engineers across T1-T3 support tiers
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, customer empathy, and continuous learning
- Drive strategic improvements within Solutions Engineering, including refining and optimizing support operations, SLAs, and escalation processes as Hologram grows
- Own and drive improvements to key metrics: response times, resolution rates, CSAT, ticket deflection
- Proactively plan and manage workload distribution, and capacity planning across support tiers.
- Manage the development and expansion of comprehensive internal and external knowledge bases
- Expand and optimize AI support systems' technical knowledge to improve resolution quality and reduce escalations
- Analyze support data to identify trends across issue types, customer segments, and support patterns
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Translate customer pain points and technical feedback into actionable product improvements
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for customer needs and close platform gaps
- Collaborate with Sales on customer onboarding processes and technical handoffs
- Work with Customer Success to improve post-sales lifecycle and reduce time-to-value
- 5+ years leading technical teams supporting post-sales IoT, telecom, or cellular connectivity solutions
- Deep understanding of cellular networks, IoT devices, RATs, and communication protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT)
- Strong technical skills with SQL and scripting languages (Python or Ruby)
- Experience coaching and managing engineers across different experience levels and technical capabilities
- Hands-on experience with LLMs and AI support tools, including knowledge base optimization and bot performance improvement
- Strong background in customer-facing technical roles within IoT or telecom
- Skilled at converting customer insights into actionable product requirements and business cases
- Outstanding communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience leveraging data and analytics to optimize processes and guide strategic decisions
You Might Be a Great Fit If You…
- Love building and up-skilling teams that solve complex technical problems with real customer impact
- Lead with technical credibility and aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves when your team needs guidance on challenging issues
- Thrive in customer conversations and can translate technical details into clear, actionable guidance
- Thrive working across organizational boundaries with support, sales, product, and engineering teams
- Want to shape how Solutions Engineering evolves in a fast-moving company where your decisions directly impact customer experience and product direction
Role Compensation: $190,000 - $215,000
Hologram is a fun, upbeat, and remote-first team united by our mission to build a more connected future. We trust you to do what’s best for our product, customers, and team members and empower you to make the right calls without heavy bureaucracy.
Benefits and PerksCompetitive compensation: All employees receive equity with transparent salary and equity formulas across the team
Health & time off: Flexible health coverage (up to 100% employee, 95% dependents), unlimited PTO with 2 weeks mandatory, monthly mental health days, and 14 weeks paid parental leave
Remote work support: $1,000 hiring bonus plus monthly taxable WFH stipend to help support your WFH needs ($250).
Financial security: Life and disability insurance fully covered, 401(k) plan, and Professional Development Fund after one year
We pride ourselves on celebrating everyone — Hologram is an equal opportunity employer actively working on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where underrepresented groups can thrive.
What to expect in the interview process:- Intro call (15 min)
- Technical Take-Home Assessment (45-60 min)
- Technical Interview (45 min)
- Cross-Team Interview (45 min)
- Hiring Manager Interview (60 min)
- Executive Interview (20 min)
If you share our values and our passion for connecting the world, we’d love to review your application! For any needed accommodations during the hiring process, please email [email protected].
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, please still consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements.
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