Overview
Want a role where you can utilize your technical expertise and customer facing skills in the dynamic tech industry? This position is your opportunity to succeed as a pre-sales professional, allowing you to work with state-of-the-art software offerings. We’ll provide you with continuous training and mentorship to help you on your way to success as a sales engineer.
What will you be doing?
Your job is to partner with our sales executives as the key technical lead throughout the pre-sales lifecycle of our business. Through this partnership, you will work in a consultative role to assist in the successful closing of new deals by performing demonstrations and pre-sales support to our prospective and returning customers.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Presenting and demonstrating AvePoint’s product offerings relevant to customer objectives remotely and on-site.
- Communicating with prospective customers, assisting and guiding them through their evaluation and selection process.
- Building environments tailored to customer requirements as Proof of Concept during the sales lifecycle to illustrate product capabilities and how they align specifically with customer objectives.
- Participating in writing proposals in response to RFIs / RFPs that showcase how the AvePoint solutions can satisfy customer requirements with attractive return on their investment.
- Acting as the customer advocate and liaison to the AvePoint product management and development teams.
- Helping the sales team identify and understand customer business objectives and organization to best align Microsoft and AvePoint technologies.
- Establishing relationships with key customer business and technical advocates that have the power to drive long-term Microsoft and AvePoint solution adoption within their company.
- Developing customer’s buying vision for how AvePoint can help them reduce costs and increase business agility.
- Supporting AvePoint Partner and Marketing teams with their field activities.
OK, I’m interested… is this the job for me?
We look for people who value agility, passion and teamwork; those who can bring fresh ideas to the table and want the opportunity to learn, grow, and expand their careers. Bring your aptitude and build upon what you do best for our customers, partners, team, and you.
In this role, you’re tasked with serving as a key technical resource through the sales cycle. That means you’ll need to become an authority in the features and benefits of our software and services solutions to properly educate customers, gain consensus, and demonstrate value solving their concerns SharePoint and Office 365.
Other qualities you will need to be a fit for this role include:
- Bachelor’s Degree (Computer, Technology and Engineering majors preferred).
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
- Confident and enthusiastic presentation skills.
- Advanced business and technical communication skills – can lead conversations to align technical value to client’s business needs.
- Readiness to think strategically to help close deals using technical knowledge coupled with sales mentality.
- Ability to maintain excellent relationships with customers and colleagues.
- Ability to work individually and within a highly collaborative team.
- Willingness to learn and adapt in a dynamic and fast changing environment.
- Authoritative business analysis capabilities.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills.
Technical Qualities:
- At least 3 years of experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 in solution design and implementation.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Cloud offerings such as Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure.
- Understanding of Microsoft SharePoint architecture, components, and configuration, including the differences between versions and hybrid architectures.
- Hands-on experience with plugins, workflows and solutions on SharePoint.
- .NET, C#, JavaScript programming experience preferred.
- Comfortable with building PowerShell scripts to automate tasks.
- Experience in ITPro related topics such as server and software installation, configuration and administration, especially for Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server and SharePoint.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, Active Directory, SMTP, and DHCP technologies a plus.
- Broader knowledge of server and cloud offerings in the tech industry.
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