Promise Salary

💰 $213K–$235K salary range

Median: $220K  ·  Based on 23 public Promise job postings  ·  Updated June 10, 2026

This Promise salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at Promise

• Account Executive - Public Sector — $192K–$280K · Sales
• Software Engineering Lead — $204K–$265K · Engineering
• Forward Deployed Engineering Lead — $180K–$250K · Engineering
• Founding Security Engineer — $180K–$240K · IT/Sec
• Software Engineer - AI — $170K–$240K · Engineering
• Forward Deployed Engineer — $175K–$230K · Engineering

Promise salary by department

• Product: $225K median (4 roles)
• Engineering: $220K median (12 roles)
• Sales: $163K median (4 roles)

Promise salary by location

• San Francisco: $220K median (13 roles)

Remote work at Promise

0% of Promise's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Promise looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: GCP (6) · TypeScript (4) · React (4) · AWS (4) · CI/CD (4) · Python (3) · Terraform (3) · GraphQL (2) · Node.js (2) · JavaScript (2).

About Promise

Promise is Late Stage stage · 51–100 employees · founded 2017 · HQ Oakland, California. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Promise

Roles typically ask for around 4 years of experience (up to 8+ for the most senior).

Base salary vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are base salary only. Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 65% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Promise hiring activity

Promise has 23 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 23 public job postings with disclosed pay. 1 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (6 in the last 90).

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Common questions

What does Promise pay?
The median base salary is $220K, with a typical range of $213K–$235K, based on 23 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Promise?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Account Executive - Public Sector, at $192K–$280K base.

Which team pays the most at Promise?
The Product team, at a $225K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

USD base salary aggregated from 23 public Promise job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed June 10, 2026.

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