May 20, 2008

MindTouch needs Sales Engineers

MindTouch is currently hiring sales engineers to help grow our customer base. We need enthusiastic, friendly, extroverted and technical people to follow up with potential customers. Our goal is to build relationships with our user community and convert to customers those who have a real need for vendor backed support. This is not a hard-sale, sales position. Ideal candidates have a broad knowledge of current “Web2.0″ services and technologies. Understand wikis, blogs, and the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Familiarity or prior experience in groupware, collaboration, publishing, and content or knowledge management is a strong plus. Must have hand’s on experienced in the entire sales cycle, from leads generation to closing, with particular expertise in selling, maintaining customer relationships and renewing support subscriptions.

Responsibilities:

  • Contact potential customers and qualify them via phone, email, or in person
  • Meet regular sales goals
  • Ability to give web based demos
  • Work at our headquarters in San Diego
  • Maintain salesforce.com for all accounts and prospects

Requirements:

  • 3 or more years selling services, software and / or technology
  • Ability to meet regular sales goals and quotas
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience with CRM systems like ACT, Salesforce, or SugarCRM
  • (optional but desirable) Knowledge of wikis and open source software

If these descriptions fit you, please submit a resume to jobs [at] mindtouch [dot] com

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  1. We’re interested in people who can, first and foremost, help our large install base. If it makes sense to mature the user into an enterprise support plan then the sales engineer is there to guide the potential customer through the available options.

    Comment by Aaron Fulkerson — May 20, 2008 @ 5:34 pm

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