Sales Engineer/Consultant

Nextcloud; Deutschland; Remote; Vertraulich; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A tech company focused on open source solutions in Germany is seeking a Technical Sales Engineer to leverage technical knowledge and sales skills. Responsibilities include assisting on projects, providing pre-sales technical support, and working closely with the sales team. Ideal candidates should possess a solid technical background, sales skills, and independence in project execution. This role offers a competitive salary and promotes flexibility for work-life balance.

Leistungen

Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance

Time for personal growth and education

Competitive salary

Qualifikationen

• Solid technical background for infrastructure set-ups in medium and large organizations.
• Sound judgement and good business sense.

Aufgaben

• Persuading clients that a product or service best satisfies their needs.
• Calculating client quotations.
• Providing pre-sales technical assistance and product education.
• Supporting POC and Pilots at the customers.

Kenntnisse

Technical knowledge

Sales skills

Organizational skills

Teamworking capabilities

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Independence and self-reliance

Tools

General programming skills in PHP, HTML, CSS

Jobbeschreibung

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 responsible on dedicated projects but like to also to exchange your knowledge with your colleagues.

Tasks

• 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
• support 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

Requirements

• 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

We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive who would like to grow and learn. That means that if you don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn, apply!