What’s exciting about Elastic Path?

Ecommerce is a dynamic industry that continues to grow and evolve. Elastic Path Software provides an enterprise ecommerce platform for the easiest and most cost-effective way to deliver custom ecommerce solutions to our enterprise customers. The Java-based platform is extended with full access to source code for easy integration with existing systems. IT teams have unlimited flexibility and control to develop innovations for business users with a faster time to market. Major global brands such as Sony Ericsson, Time, Inc., and TELUS rely on Elastic Path.

At Elastic Path we work with some of the latest and greatest technologies: Java/J2EE, Spring, MVC, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Velocity, Eclipse RCP, ANT/Maven, JPA, Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere, Oracle, MySQL, etc. As part of the team you will play a key role in our agile development process and will have the opportunity to work with smart people who love debating, challenging the status quo, and solving complex customer requirements.
What can you expect in the Sales Engineer’s position?

We’ve got grand plans and want you to be part of it. The Sales Engineer will provide pre-sales support by taking ownership of the technical sale of company products and services offerings during customer pre-sales activities. A Sales Engineer at Elastic Path is a product expert who understands Elastic Path Commerce’s functionality in detail as well as the underlying technology/implementation.

Once you join our team, you will be accountable for achieving realistic yet challenging goals:
1. Support Sales team in meeting quarterly revenue targets by assisting with the preparation of proposals, addressing customers technical questions or concerns, eliciting solution details during the sales cycle, and providing high level “gut check” estimates to the sales representative
2. Review opportunity plan to remove all obstacles and assist the sales team in closing the deal
3. Provide technical leadership to customers to help them understand advantages of company products and solutions to meet their business needs (product demonstration, proof of concept delivery, etc.)
4. Assist customers and Elastic Path with the development and presentation of high level architectural solutions which achieve short and long term business and/or technical goals
5. Participate in sales activity encompassing standard company methodologies and solutions
6. Provide customer feedback to Product Development and Professional Services
7. Act as liaison with customer and internal team to ensure a smooth transition from sales to project execution
8. Educate sales team on technical concepts as it relates to our product as well as our customer’s technology

Working at Elastic Path can provide you with an opportunity to see some great parts of the world while you’re providing brilliant support to our customers. Our Sales Engineers will travel approximately 25% of the time and we want to be sure you more than comfortable with that, heck, we bet it even excites you…

What does it take to be successful?

• Exceptional communication skills: ensuring common language and understanding (from a technology standpoint)
• Flexibility and adaptability: coping effectively with complexity and change more specifically, at the enterprise level
• Straight talk: telling it like it is
• Action-oriented: getting the job done
• Customer focused: always having the customer in mind
• Passion for technology: being a true geek
• Follow through on commitments: living up to commitments with no excuses
• Smarts: expertise and solid track record in your field of work that surpasses the average (sales engineering)
• High standards and work ethic: expecting and delivering nothing short of the best

Bragging rights

Founded in 2000, Elastic Path is privately held and has grown organically with recent exponential growth; we’ve doubled revenue every year for the past three consecutive years. Today Elastic Path employs more than 100 team members between our Vancouver, Canada headquarters and UK office.
We’re also pleased to announce some recent accolades and awards, including a spot on Red Herring’s 100 List, a prestigious list that honors the year's most promising private technology ventures in North America. We also ranked #25 in PROFIT magazine's Ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies and to top it off, British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) recently awarded us with the “Emerging Company of the Year” award.
We also have some neat benefits to offer you, but we won’t bore you with those right now. If you’re curious, check out the benefits section on our career site: http://www.elasticpath.com/jobs/life/perks-and-benefits/

How to join our team?

Interested? Awesome, let’s talk. Send us your resume and we’ll contact you if it looks like we might just have an amazing career opportunity that’s right up your alley. Be sure to highlight your bragging rights and apply today:

http://www.elasticpath.com/jobs/

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