Ubuntu Sales Engineer (English/Spanish Required)

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Remote
Full-time
Mid Level
Customer and Technical Support
Canonical

Canonical

Canonical provides secure and reliable open source solutions, specializing in commercial support for Ubuntu. They are the company behind the popular Linux OS, Ubuntu, and lead a global community of 200,000 contributors.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2004
$10M raised

Description

  • Collect customer business requirements and advise on Ubuntu and relevant open source applications.
  • Identify customer challenges with open source and explain how Ubuntu Pro can address them.
  • Deliver presentations and product demonstrations to prospective and current clients.
  • Collaborate with product teams by sharing customer requirements and influencing roadmap decisions.
  • Work closely with enterprise sales leads to support sales efforts and achieve team targets.
  • Support the adoption of Ubuntu Pro within Canonical’s large enterprise user base.
  • Participate in global travel for internal events, customer meetings, and industry meetings.

Requirements

  • Bilingual Spanish and English skills are mandatory.
  • Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
  • An undergraduate degree in a technical subject, or a compelling alternative career path.
  • Practical knowledge of Linux, virtualisation, containers, and networking.
  • Intermediate Python programming skills.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and platforms such as Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Experience with Linux, with Debian or Ubuntu preferred.
  • Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, accountability, and self-motivation.
  • Ability to travel internationally, including company events up to two weeks long.
  • Interest in enterprise open source, including private clouds, machine learning and AI, data and analytics.
  • A business-minded approach to technology and problem solving.
  • Personal passion for technology demonstrated through projects or initiatives.
  • Preferred: experience working in a customer-facing presales or sales engineering role.

Benefits

  • Distributed work environment with most colleagues working from home.
  • Twice-yearly in-person team sprints in interesting locations around the world.
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
  • Annual compensation review.
  • Performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
  • Annual holiday leave.
  • Maternity and paternity leave.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

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