[Hiring] Sales Engineer/Consultant @Nextcloud

Role Description

Technical sales engineers use their technical knowledge along with sales skills to provide advice and support on a range of products, for which a certain level of expertise is needed. You work close together with sales and engineering and assist colleagues with bids and tenders for new clients from a technical perspective, working on proof of concept deployments and answering questions. You like to work independently and self-responsibly on dedicated projects but also like to exchange your knowledge with your colleagues.

• Persuading clients that a product or service best satisfies their needs in terms of quality, price, and delivery
• Working closely together with sales on customer projects
• Calculating client quotations
• Providing pre-sales technical assistance and product education
• Working on after-sales support services and providing technical backup as required
• Arranging and carrying out product training
• Supporting POC and Pilots at the customers together with support and engineering
• Supporting sales and marketing activities by attending trade shows, conferences, and other marketing events
• Making technical presentations and demonstrating how a product meets client needs
• Liaising with other members of the sales team and other technical experts
• Helping in the design of custom-made products
• Providing training and producing support material for other members of the sales team

Qualifications

• Solid technical background for infrastructure set-ups in medium and large organizations
• Sales skills
• Sound judgement and good business sense
• Organizational skills
• Teamworking capabilities
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Independence and self-reliance
• Problem solving
• Product knowledge around open source technology
• General programming skills in PHP, HTML, CSS

Benefits

• A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community
• Promoting and selling a product which pushes the boundaries of technology and with a global user and contributor community
• A competitive salary
• Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
• Time for personal growth and education