Pre-Sales Solution Engineer

At AvePoint, we are committed to investing in our people: we believe agility, passion and teamwork sets us up to do our best work and fosters a culture where you feel empowered to take initiative, learn from others and craft your career with the intention to unleash the power of you!
About the position: Your job is to partner with our sales team as AvePoints key technical lead throughout the lifecycle of the solutioning process. Through this partnership, you will work in a consultative role to assist in the successful closing of deals by listening to our customer, understanding their problems and positioning innovative solutions using AvePoint products.
What your day to day will look like:

Presenting and demonstrating AvePoints product offerings relevant to customer objectives remotely and on-site

Successfully facilitating solution discovery, solution overview, and technical deep dive sessions with customers.

Communicating with prospective customers, assisting and guiding them through their evaluation and selection process

Building environments tailored to customer requirements as proof of concept during the sales lifecycle to illustrate product capabilities and how they align specifically with customer objectives

Participating in writing proposals in response to RFIs / RFPs that showcase how the AvePoint product line can satisfy customer requirements with attractive return on their investment

Sharing information with the sales and technical teams about our products and the market

Acting as the customer advocate and liaison to the AvePoint product management and development teams

Helping the sales team identify and understand customer business objectives and their organisation to best align AvePoint technology

Establishing relationships with key customer business and technical advocates that have the power to drive long-term AvePoint solution adoption within their company

Developing customers buying vision for how AvePoint can help them reduce costs and increase business agility

Ownership of technical sales opportunity closure

What you will bring to our team:
Youre tasked with serving as a key technical resource through the sales cycle. That means youll need to become an authority in the features and benefits of our software and services solutions to properly educate customers, gain consensus, and demonstrate value solving their SharePoint and Office 365 concerns.

Relevant work experience on client-side, consulting-side or with an ISV

Understanding of M365 architecture, components, and configuration

Experience in delivery and/or pre-sales of solutions that leverage one or more of the following: M365 Security & Compliance (Purview), SharePoint, Teams, Dynamics and Azure

Knowledge of server and cloud offerings across Microsoft, Google and Salesforce

Confident and enthusiastic presentation skills

Good business and technical communication skills can lead conversations to align technical value to a customers business needs

Ability to think strategically using technical knowledge coupled with sales mentality

Technical Qualities:

Experience in actualITProrelated topics such as Microsoft 365 delivery concept and SharePoint Online technologies, Microsoft Azure and Entra technologies,configurationand administration, especially for Microsoft Entra ID, Workload ID Management, Permission Management,

Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, Active Directory, SMTP, and DHCP technologies

Working knowledge of Data Backup concepts, migration topics, adoption and governance strategies

Understanding of Microsoft SharePoint architecture, components, and configuration, including the differences between SharePoint versions, hybrid architecture and online versions

Broader knowledge of server and cloud offerings in the tech industry i.e. Office 365, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud is strongly preferred.

Securing the Future. AvePoint is a global leader in data management and data governance, and over 21,000 customers worldwide rely on our solutions to modernize the digital workplace across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other collaboration environments. AvePoints global channel partner program includes over 3,500 managed service providers, value added resellers and systems integrators, with our solutions available in more than 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com.

Competitive market-based compensation

Work-life balance through a hybrid working model

Career progression and internal mobility opportunities

GBP 1.000,00/Year towards our Tuition Reimbursement Program

Pension & BUPA Healthcare

Employee Referral Program

Corporate Donation Matching Program

Company sponsored events / regular team building events

30 PTO/Year, plus all public holidays and access to AvePoint holidays!

... and much more!

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