Alternative Careers for Software Engineers

Guide new retail customers through their first 120 days of platform adoption, ensuring they hit quick wins and adopt the software successfully. Work closely with sales, product, and customer success teams to drive implementation and expansion.

Account manager focused on customer success and retention for an AI-powered CRM platform. Day-to-day involves managing existing customer relationships, ensuring product adoption, identifying upsell opportunities, and serving as the primary point of contact for assigned accounts.

A customer-facing role focused on ensuring enterprise clients successfully execute research projects using Knit's AI platform, involving project management, stakeholder communication, and driving customer retention through high-quality deliverables.

Enterprise sales role selling a payments infrastructure platform to C-suite executives and technical leaders. Day-to-day involves prospecting, discovery calls, pipeline building, and closing deals with a consultative approach.

Apply statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to improve DuckDuckGo's search ranking and relevancy. Work involves designing experiments, analyzing sparse privacy-preserving data, and developing signals for search quality—less about writing production code and more about data investigation and modeling.

Full-cycle recruiter focused on sourcing and hiring AI researchers and ML engineers for an AI safety company. You'll learn the technical domain deeply, identify talent from research organizations and labs, and manage the entire hiring pipeline for specialized technical roles.

Lead cross-functional product development and project management for plastic packaging solutions, coordinating between customers, suppliers, and international production sites while overseeing technical feasibility, timelines, budgets, and quality metrics.

Enterprise sales role focused on acquiring and expanding large customer accounts. Day-to-day involves engaging C-level stakeholders, conducting complex sales cycles, and leveraging technical knowledge of Aiven's data platform to close enterprise deals.

Create and manage visual designs for social media content at scale for a major FMCG brand, balancing creative quality with high-volume production while establishing design systems and processes.

A sales-focused role selling enterprise VDR software solutions to clients in finance, legal, and corporate sectors. Day-to-day involves prospecting, qualifying leads, presenting product capabilities, and closing deals through various outreach methods.

Lead and manage a regional SEO services team, overseeing technical SEO delivery, client account growth, and operational excellence while bridging global strategy with regional execution.

Lead QA strategy and processes for a web platform, balancing hands-on testing oversight with team mentorship and automation tool selection. Day-to-day involves defining quality standards, performing manual testing across applications, and guiding junior engineers.

Director-level business development role focused on selling language services and technology solutions to financial services clients, involving relationship building, solution positioning, and driving revenue growth for a language services company.

Account executive role focused on identifying prospects, qualifying leads, and closing new business deals for Sterling's VDR SaaS platform. Day-to-day involves sales conversations, relationship building, and translating technical product capabilities into client value propositions.

Full-cycle sales role focused on prospecting, qualifying, and closing B2B deals for education technology products. Day-to-day involves cold outreach, discovery calls, product demonstrations, and negotiation with enterprise clients.

Drive new business acquisition for a hotel management software platform by leveraging industry relationships and technical knowledge to close high-value deals with independent hotels and small groups.

Build and maintain data platform tooling, infrastructure, and processes that enable analytics teams to work more efficiently. This involves working across the full data stack—from ingestion to BI tools—focusing on observability, access control, and engineering standards rather than pure application development.

Build and maintain the data modeling infrastructure (dbt models, metrics, semantic layers) that powers analytics across product, GTM, finance, and operations teams. Involves SQL, data warehouse design, and analytics enablement rather than application development.

Lead a cross-functional e-commerce engineering team, define technical architecture and quality standards, and develop engineers through mentorship while maintaining hands-on involvement with the codebase.

Student worker supporting renewable energy project development through site research, stakeholder coordination, documentation, and process improvement. Involves planning regulations research, location assessment, and inter-departmental coordination rather than software development.