Technical Onboarding Engineer

Onboarding Team

  • Location

    Remote

  • Timezone(s)

    GMT +2:00 to GMT -8:00

About PostHog

We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

  • A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

  • A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.

  • PostHog AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, messaging, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We are:

  1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

  2. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

  3. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

Things we care about

  • Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

  • Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.

  • Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.

  • Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.

  • Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.

  • Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

Job Summary

We're looking for someone who is obsessed with helping to make customers successful. You'll be working with our users at a critical stage - the very start of their PostHog journey. By getting in early and helping them ensure they're using PostHog in the best possible way, you'll both help us retain customers and help them to build better products.

Most of our customers are highly technical and willing to self-serve, so you're not just coming in as a sales-y person with vague ideas - you'll be looking at how they're using PostHog and, as a trusted advisor, helping them set things up to get as much as possible out of the platform. And if they're spending too much money - well, you'll help them reduce their bills too!

This is a very new role we've just introduced in 2025, so it's a great time to join and shape this new part of our sales team. The role is a pretty unique combo of technical expertise and customer relationship skills, so you'll need to use your judgement to figure out when to go deep on a technical issue, and when to zoom out and understand customer goals.

What you'll be doing

  • Performing health checks on the implementation of customers who are about to pay their first bill with PostHog, using the data we track about their usage.

  • Making contact with these customers to get them set up for success with PostHog, ensuring that they can see value from their subscription from the start.

  • Presenting an adoption pathway to customers, educating them on the benefits of the additional products which they may not yet be using.

  • Finding and implementing opportunities for automation in this role.

  • Working with the wider Sales and Customer Success team to identify and hand off potential larger customers who require more focus.

Requirements

  • You’re able to go deep on understanding PostHog’s products, including more technical ones like Feature Flags and Data Warehouse. You don’t need to be a developer, but the ability to get into the details will give you confidence and really help you bring more value to customer conversations. For example, you should be able to advise on configuration best practices for companies with multiple products and applications, advising on the pros and cons of different SDKs and how to implement PostHog into their existing stack.

  • Strong customer focus - you need to help our users and remove any blockers to them using PostHog effectively.

  • Commercially-minded - you're not just solving problems, you're thinking about how to grow and retain revenue too.

  • You’ll need to be good at finding creative ways to engage with customers who may never have spoken with us before.

  • Experience onboarding customers to a technical product and helping them use it in a meaningful way.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with similar technologies, ie. developer tools more broadly, or specifically product analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, data warehouses, or data pipelines.

  • You’ve been in a pre-sales, technical account manager, or support-type role before, bringing both technical expertise and commercial acumen.

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

Meet the Onboarding Team

We help customers get started with PostHog – ensuring they are properly set up and successfully using the right products.

Team members

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We have a set system for compensation as part of being transparent. Salary varies based on location and level of experience.

Learn more about compensation

Location

(based on market rates)

Level

Step

Salary calculator

  1. Benchmark (United States - San Francisco, California) $211,000
  2. Level modifier 1
  3. Step modifier 0.95 - 1.04
Salary $200,450 - $219,440+ significant equity
We are open to paying well beyond these ranges for exceptional talent. If this is you, please apply.

  • Generous, transparent compensation & equityGenerous, transparent compensation & equity
  • Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
  • Two meeting-free days per weekTwo meeting-free days per week
  • Home officeHome office
  • Coworking creditCoworking credit
  • Private health, dental, and vision insurance.Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Training budgetTraining budget
  • Access to our Hedge HouseAccess to our Hedge House
  • Carbon offsettingCarbon offsetting
  • Pension & 401k contributionsPension & 401k contributions
  • We hire and pay locallyWe hire and pay locally
  • Company offsitesCompany offsites

Get more details about all our benefits on the Careers page.

We help customers get started with PostHog – ensuring they are properly set up and successfully using the right products.

Objective: Build an awesome Onboarding team

Q4 2025 Goals

  • Hit Onboarding Specialist Logo Retention of 90% (Team)
  • Iterate on the new Onboarding Program (Team)

Crucial Onboarding content updates

  • Document Onboarding foundations in the Handbook (Daniel)

Scaling internal processes

  • Improve a new hire onboarding, scale-proof internal processes (Magda)

We do 2-3 short interviews, then pay you to do some real-life (or close to real-life) work.

  • 1
    Application (You are here)
    Our talent team will review your application

    We're looking to see how your skills and experience align with our needs.

  • 2
    Culture interview
    30-min video call

    Our goal is to explore your motivations to join our team, learn why you’d be a great fit, and answer questions about us.

  • 3
    Technical interview
    45 minutes, varies by role

    You'll meet the hiring team who will evaluate skills needed to be successful in your role. No live coding.

  • 4
    Founder interview
    30 minutes

    You have reached the final boss. It's time to chat with James or Tim.

  • 5
    PostHog SuperDay
    Paid day of work

    You’ll meet a few more members of the team and work on an independent project. It's challenging, but most people say it's fun, and we'll pay you $1,000 for your efforts!

  • 6
    Offer
    Pop the champagne (after you sign)

    If everyone is happy, we’ll make you an offer to join us - YAY!

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Just fill out this painless form and we'll get back to you within a few days. Thanks in advance!

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