Headquarters: Totally distant firm (worldwide, included in France)
OpenCraft is on the lookout for a gross sales engineer who can be taught to talk with authority on the companies we offer.
Open-source
Our staff focuses on customized software program growth and huge scale deployments of the Open edX Platform. Because the product we’re offering could be very technical, and most of our leads are technical managers, we require our gross sales engineer to have robust engineering fundamentals as a way to communicate with authority on our companies.
This staff member will act as a fast reference for engineering questions and ballpark estimates, work with different engineers on the staff to construct proposals, and be the primary staff member most leads meet. They are going to information the gross sales course of from begin to end. The work you do will impression learners all world wide.
Distant-first
In contrast to corporations who reluctantly began to just accept distant staff not too long ago, we’ve embraced it from day 1. For the previous 10+ years, we’ve primarily based and refined our means of working round remote-friendly workflows, from the bottom up. No day-long video conferences, obligatory work hours, or danger of being compelled again into an workplace in the future — so long as you’ve gotten a great web connection, it’s none of our enterprise the place you’re employed from. 🙂
We’re all working remotely, from all continents (besides Antarctica, a minimum of thus far – candidates welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows primarily based on asynchronous ideas and good documentation practices.
For this gross sales place, you will want to schedule time to satisfy with purchasers, that are principally in US time zones. So long as your schedule can overlap sufficient with the US to persistently maintain conferences with prospects, you possibly can work the place you want.
On-line training
Contracting phrases
This can be a part-time to full-time, everlasting contract place, billable hourly. We intention for long-term relationships — as soon as in, virtually all staff members keep for a few years.
We care about paying pretty:
- Staff members set their very own compensation degree, which is paid primarily based on hours labored (no unpaid additional time!).
- When figuring out your fee, we’ll count on you to consider advantages (trip, healthcare, buy budgets, and so forth.) – the thought is to let you decide the advantages which can be helpful to you, slightly than provide one-size-fits-all packages that aren’t at all times very invaluable.
- We additionally proactively apply beneficiant raises team-wide, primarily based on the corporate outcomes on the finish of every yr. See the small print about how we method compensation in our handbook.
We additionally firmly imagine in work-life steadiness: so long as you ship what you decide to, there’s a variety of latitude in how a lot work you possibly can select to just accept. We’re open to time commitments wherever within the 20h to 40h/week vary, and extremely discourage working greater than that. It’s essential to have time to ourselves, in addition to having some slack, and there are diminishing returns in working extra anyway.
We welcome candidates of all genders and ethnicities.
Fundamental Necessities:
- Expertise in gross sales and buyer account administration
- Should have made contributions to open supply tasks
Expertise with:
- Django
- React or an analogous frontend framework
- REST APIs
- Docker
- Linux
- At the very least one RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
- Git
- Comfy with holding conferences, performing displays and talking publicly
- Sturdy English communication expertise, each written and spoken
- Sturdy interpersonal expertise
- Familiarity with instruments like Trello, Jira, and GitLab
- Consolation with working with a principally asynchronous staff (most communications shall be over e-mail)
- Can-do angle
- Consideration to element
These things are a plus and stronger consideration shall be given to candidates who can meet these:
- Information of the training academia and business – particularly on-line studying, MOOCs or the Open edX on-line course platform
- Expertise Collaborating in collaborative on-line communities – eg. boards, video games, open supply
- Weblog publish and/or copywriting expertise
- Familiarity with mission planning instruments like Jira, Trello, or GitLab
- Proficiency with Google Sheets or different Spreadsheet packages