Sales Engineer/Consultant

Nextcloud; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Open source community culture

Competitive salary

Global user and contributor community

Flexible work-life balance

Personal growth and education time

Zusammenfassung

Nextcloud is seeking a technically minded sales engineer to blend deep product knowledge with customer-facing skills, supporting deals from inquiry to deployment.

You will work closely with sales and engineering to deliver proof-of-concept deployments, answer questions, craft quotations, and provide pre-sales education. Independent yet collaborative, you’ll train others and contribute to marketing events.

Qualifikationen

• Solid technical background for infrastructure set-ups in medium and large organizations.
• Sales skills and good business sense.
• Organizational and teamwork abilities.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Independence and self-reliance.
• Knowledge of open source technologies.
• Basic programming skills in PHP, HTML, CSS.

Aufgaben

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

Kenntnisse

Sales skills

Teamworking

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Independence

Organizational skills

Business sense

Open source knowledge

Tools

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.