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OverviewGnip, the world's largest provider of social data, is actively seeking a proven business development executive with experience in the Business Intelligence sector as we continue to expand our offerings to help better serve the growing market demand.
Position Description
The Engineering Sales Manager (ESM) is responsible for managing the product and technical portions of our sales process with both new and existing customers (upgrades). Success in this role will be primarily measured upon the following:
Increase in percent of opportunities won
Decrease in time to win opportunities (avg days till close)
Improved customer satisfaction around the trial process
Improvement in customer satisfaction within the first 90 days of won opportunities due to customers knowledge and effective use of Gnip products
Improved customer satisfaction due to creative and expert counsel on how our products can improve our customer's business
This role will coordinate with Gnip Sales Executives and Account Managers on direct engagement with customers and prospects at predetermined points in Gnip's sales process. A significant portion of this engagement will be around owning all facets of the trial process including onboarding, setup, training, consulting, and feedback. The ESM will work closely with Gnip's data science team to understand the value that can be derived from various data sources on a customer-by-customer basis. This role will also work closely with the Gnip product team to define new Gnip trial products and to improve existing trial products.
The ESM will spend a significant portion of time managing the sales process remotely from Gnip HQ. However, travel will be required on occasion to help strategic customers and potential Plugged In partners through the onboarding process. The opportunity may exist to do paid customer engagements after the ESM has refined our customer offerings.
Once Gnip's sales engineering processes are refined and proven to be effective, the ESM will be responsible for hiring and managing a team of sales engineers.
Desired Skills
Excellent customer communication skills both written & verbal
Proven track record managing customer engagements through complex sales cycles
Proven ability to define and carefully refine ongoing sales processes
Ability to work well within a team/matrix environment where a customer has multiple points of contact
Ability to hire and retain talented individuals
Strong technical skills on a variety of platforms to support our diverse customer base.
Deep knowledge of HTTP stack and how applications communicate with each other
Previous experience and current skill writing code in various popular languages (Java, Ruby, Python, etc) to integrate with REST APIs
Previous experience building simple web applications
Previous experience with modern 'Big Data' and search technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Lucene is preferred
Ability to quickly obtain a high-level understanding of a customer's technology stack and data processing pipeline
Preference will be given to candidates with fluency in additional languages besides English.
About Gnip
Gnip is consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in Colorado, with a strong and fast-growing team that has more than doubled in the last 12 months. We work hard, with a community focus on driving the burgeoning social data ecosystem forward through innovation and thought leadership, but reward ourselves with many perks like a local coffee account, an office kegerator, and catered breakfasts every day.
Today Gnip is...
Consistently recognized as one of the best places to work
Serving 90% of the Fortune 500 brands
Delivering over 100 Billion activities every month
Pushing the boundaries of innovation in social data, given our core belief that social data has unlimited value and near limitless application
Building strong partnerships with many of the biggest Social Data Analytics / Business Intelligence organizations in the world
Compensation
Commensurate with skills and experience.
| Location: | 1050 Walnut St. Suite 115 Boulder, CO 80302 United States |
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| Web Site: | www.gnip.com |
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| Headquarters: | 1050 Walnut St. Suite 115 Boulder, CO 80302 United States |
| Industry: | IT Services |
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