Job Description
Axon is seeking a Sales Engineer for South and Central America. This role is remote, based in Colombia, and involves travel up to 70% of the time. The Sales Engineer will report to the Sr Manager, Latin America.
Role involves:
- Mastering all Axon technologies and products.
- Leading business and technical presentations.
- Having technical conversations with IT departments and channel partners.
- Providing 1st-level technical support throughout the pre-sales cycle.
- Developing relationships with key partners.
- Representing Axon's products and values at events.
- Coordinating logistics for POC/Pilots.
- Improving technical documentation.
- Capturing requested features and providing feedback to various teams.
- Developing Statements of Work (SOW).
Requirements:
- Willingness to travel.
- Fluent English and Spanish, Portuguese is a plus.
- Assist Sales with presentations and analysis to enlarge customer portfolio.
- Training new employees.
- Document translation & verification for new products Axon brings to the market
- Associates degree in Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent field), or 5+ years relevant experience.
- 4+ years customer facing pre-sales or consulting background required
- 3+ years of experience with public procurement in LatAm
- Experience selling SaaS based solutions
- Experience in End User Compute or Cloud Computing preferred
- Experience in networking, storage, virtualization, or related technologies
- Must have intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability and positive approach
- Strong Technical Writing skills to provide professional responses to customer RFPs / RFIs
- Basic knowledge or curiosity of security, IPsec, InfoSec, hacking and exploitation tools and methodologies.
- Basic knowledge of computer hardware, operating systems, and storage devices.
- Ability to work independently with substantial latitude for action and decision making while maintaining focus on achieving optimal outcomes as part of a collaborative development effort.
- Strong presentation skills and presence, technical acumen, ability to simplify the complex, ability to work cross-functionally.
- Experience developing Statements of Work (SOW) or similar documents
- Intermediate knowledge of routing and switching methodologies, telecommunications, and Internet technologies.
- Basic knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies
- Network and Telecommunication-specific professional certifications, such as but not limited to: CCNA, CCNP, ComTIA Network+, WCNA, etc..
- Experience with Law Enforcement technology solutions and public procurement is a plus