What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Engineer (Remote) position at Appspace Inc.?
Full Time | This is a Remote Opportunity
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Dallas, TX, Appspace's platform helps organizations build an exceptional workplace experience with simple communication and space management tools. With offices in the US, UK, UAE, and Malaysia, plus remote experts in a dozen other countries, we provide global support to thousands of customers that trust us to help them communicate with their teams and modernize their workplace experiences.
Appspace is a product-first company with a dedicated and passionate team that loves our product and wants our customers to be successful and happy. As we grow into our next phase as a company, we must become a first-class product management company with strong product leaders capable of partnering to document the product strategy and the development plan.
Job Summary:
As a Sales Engineer, you will partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Appspace product solutions, setting up demonstrations, and explaining features and benefits to customers and partners. Additionally, you will partner with our Customer Success and Enhanced Services teams as a post-sales subject matter expert to drive existing account expansion via new feature demonstration, client use case consultation, and custom project scoping and implementation. The Sales Engineer must understand customer business needs and use this understanding to define a solution that fits those requirements and allows the customer to have scalability and flexibility for future needs. This position requires excellent communication skills on both a technical and business level with stellar interpersonal and presentation skills.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide technical and sales support for assigned and prospective customers
- Take the lead on moving opportunities through the sales process from a technical perspective, knowing when to engage other team members for success and closure
- Perform technical presentations for customers, partners, and prospects
- Assist with developing formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities, selling at the solution and architectural level.
- Ability to understand complex customer technical and business situations and identify where Appspace solutions can provide value.
- Act as an SME for ongoing implementations and deployments to provide solutions that fit customer use cases.
- Collaborate with our Enhanced Services team and Customer Success team to ensure proposed solutions are properly scoped and, ultimately, successful.
- Help drive account and partner relationship building
- Keeping up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions, products, and services
Job Requirements:
- Ability to build strong customer relationships leading to trusted advisor status within customer and partner base
- In-depth knowledge of baseline pre-sales product and engineering skills
- Knowledge of relevant solutions sets, product line specifications, performance criteria, and applications of use
- Competitive knowledge (in the areas of digital media and content management, space management, room booking)
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively across teams and collaborate with a variety of departments.
- Demonstrated history of exhibiting technical knowledge and consultative skills
- Prior sales, sales engineering, or solution architect experience preferred
- Preferred skills: working knowledge/use of Salesforce, Scripting, Web Development (HTML, JavaScript, and AngularJS), O365/Azure, working knowledge of containerization/Kubernetes, cloud solutions, IPTV streaming, digital signage/video walls, space management/room booking tools (IWMS, etc.); prior Software/SaaS Company and Industry experience
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 5 years professional experience (Computer Science/Information Technology and Engineering fields preferred but not required)
Benefits:
For all our US based team members, we offer a variety of benefits from competitive salaries, medical, dental and vision coverage, disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, mental health resources, 401(k) plan and a fully paid parental leave program.
Additional perks include:
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible work schedules
- Remote work opportunities
- Paid company holidays
- A casual dress work environment
- A company provided laptop (choice of Mac, PC, Chromebook)
Appspace Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, compensation, and training are decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, marital status, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, sexual orientation, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local laws. Appspace is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.