Head of Solutions Engineering

Job description

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in the world. 500M+ lifetime downloads. Thousands of packages. A developer community that shows up — at conferences, in forums, on Twitter, in Discord servers, in every "what framework should I use?" thread on the internet. But Laravel is more than a framework. It's a complete platform — from choosing a stack, to building an app, to deploying it, monitoring it, and scaling it. 8 paid products, 20+ open source packages, one customer journey. When enterprise teams evaluate Laravel's commercial products, they're evaluating the whole platform. The SE team is how we earn their trust and prove the technical fit. We have a small, talented SE team doing great work. Now we're adding the leader who sets the direction, hires the team, designs the processes, and owns how we approach pre-sales in the AI era. There is no playbook. You're writing it. Why This Job is Unique: You'll inherit two SEs and scale the team over the next couple of years. You'll define what "great" looks like for SEs at Laravel, build the hiring process to find those people, and create the onboarding and coaching programs that develop them. Most SE Manager roles hand you an existin...