Vertica delivers game-changing insights at massive scale, and it is used by some of the most data intensive organizations in the world like BoA, AT&T, Uber, and Wayfair. Our team's objective is to increase the indirect sales motion, within which we seek higher levels of "partner sourced" revenue streams.
Responsible for defining, developing & supporting the sales process for technology and solutions with account teams. Engages in account transactions based on technical expertise required in specific deals/programs leveraging specialized knowledge base across multiple accounts. Focuses on area of technical expertise, e.g., specific products/areas within company's global business units. Responsible for technical consulting work with customers in selling and supporting company products, services and systems, or software. Provides technical support in sales presentations, product demonstrations, and customer training.
Do you want to work with an industry leading MPP analytics platform founded by Turing Award winner Dr. Michael Stone braker with customers such as Facebook, Uber, AT&T, Cerner, Dream works, KDDI, China Mobile, KT, ICICI, Intuit and Auckland Transport?
Join our dynamic Solution Architect team who are responsible for breaking down the technical barriers adopting the Vertica platform and focused on being the trusted advisor to our customers.
You are a self-starter and love solving challenging data, analytics, or machine learning problems in a customer facing position.
You will partner with a world class engineering and sales team, wear many hats, and make an immediate impact.
You will be a hands-on customer facing technologist and not just be doing slideware.
**Responsibilities**:
- Communicate and demonstrate the Vertica story, vision, and technology to prospects and customers
- Work hands-on with prospects and customers to show value throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to solution architecture to customer success
- Continuously learn quickly evolving technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Machine Learning
- Become the voice of our customers internally and collaborate cross-functionally to continuously improve
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical area or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to develop strong relationships with key decision makers & influencers within an organization
- Experience with Databases or Big Data technologies
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Experience presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a white-board or using presentations and demos
- Hands-on, technical, problem solver
- Have the chops to learn new technologies quickly in the dynamic big data and analytics space
**Job**:
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