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Sales Engineer - France

JumpCloud

JumpCloud

Sales & Business Development
Paris, France · Remote
Posted on Friday, April 19, 2024
About the Team:
The Pre-Sales Engineering team is rapidly expanding to support our sales functions and equip our salespeople with the technical resources they need to help drive revenue growth. The Pre-Sales Engineering team is responsible for providing technical expertise and consulting to organizations during their evaluation and to help show the value of JumpCloud solutions.

What you'll be doing

  • Acting as the technical trusted advisor to provide consultative support for organizations evaluating the JumpCloud platform
  • Providing tailored product demonstrations
  • Uncovering customer pain points and challenges and aligning JumpCloud solutions to those challenges
  • Support direct and partner sales teams with product related questions and skill development
  • Building relationships with partners through technical enablement and co-selling
  • Assist prospects with setup and configuration of free trials
  • Provide technical Q&A to prospects as they progress through trial
  • Assess prospect readiness to enter a formal sales cycle
  • Understand implementation best practices to advise on the quickest customer time to value
  • Identify common technical issues and themes that could be addressed through product development, automation and/or self-serve
  • Provide evaluation framework for prospects to follow in their POC

We're looking for:

  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Ability to make the complex simple
  • Comfortable speaking with technical evaluators and IT leaders, and adjusting talk-track to match the audience
  • Desire and ability to learn new complex concepts

Preferred Qualifications

  • 4+ years experience in a technical Sales Engineering or similar role
  • Must be fluent professionally (written and spoken) in French and English
  • Strong knowledge of Cloud/SaaS technologies
  • Strong understanding of Active Directory environments
  • Understanding of network architecture
  • Knowledgeable in industry standard authentication and authorization protocols e.g. SAML, OIDC/OAuth, LDAP, RADIUS
  • Familiarity with MDM, RMM, or similar endpoint solutions
  • Familiarity with MFA technologies such as TOTP, WebAuthn
  • Experience configuring and deploying identity and/or directory solutions
  • Experience with scripting languages, PowerShell preferred.
  • Experience with both direct and channel/partner sales cycles
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