Director/Lead Sales Engineer - Austin, TX

From: Rob Needham (robat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 14:29:14 PST

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    Director/Lead Sales Engineer
    
    Candidates without a background in Security will not 
    be considered!
    
    Job Description:
    
    The Director/Lead Sales Engineer will be responsible 
    for all technical sales support for customer and sales 
    organizations.  The position is located in Austin, 
    Texas, reporting to the Chief Marketing and Sales 
    Officer.  The key objectives for the position will center 
    on extensive customer engagements within the 
    Enterprise, Government and VAR communities.  This 
    position will serve as the technical expert in support 
    of the office of CMSO and will contribute to corporate 
    strategy and product definition.
    
    The candidate should have demonstrated customer 
    technical sales experience with network security 
    products and consistently obtained praise from 
    customers, sales and product management 
    personnel.  The candidate must possess strong 
    presentation and communication skills at multiple 
    levels (including executive to engineering) of an 
    organization.  
    
    Position Responsibilities:
    
    "	Serve as technical evangelist in support of 
    sales force and customers
    "	Conduct various sales activities that drive 
    prospects through the awareness and consideration 
    phases of the sales cycle.
    "	Increase acceptance, adoption, and usage 
    of our products within a client organization to create 
    selling opportunities 
    "	Provide as-needed support to the field 
    sales organization in various sales support activities -
     RFIs, RFPs, presentations, configurations
    "	Interface to product marketing and 
    engineering pertaining to customer requirements and 
    competitive trends.
    "	Establish relationships with strategic 
    partner counterparts
    
    Position Qualifications:
    
    "	10+ years industry experience as 
    lead/director of Sales Engineering.  
    "	Working knowledge of firewall and 
    encryption applications.
    "	Information Security Products and 
    Techniques (Intrusion Detection, URL filtering, 
    Firewall & system monitoring, encryption 
    technologies/VPNs/PKI/IPSEC, etc.)
    "	Strong Presentation skills.
    "	Ability to perform system troubleshooting 
    and resolution at customer sites. 
    "	Ability to attract and manage technical 
    personnel to support business growth 
    "	Writing release documentation and support 
    procedures.
    "	Working knowledge of network routing 
    protocols.  Internet troubleshooting techniques.
    "	Good interpersonal/customer-relations 
    skills and the ability to guide customer/user ideas into 
    realistic security solutions. 
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    Rob Needham
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    NHRG, Inc
    11612 FM 2244
    Austin, TX  78738
    (512) 328-4448 (office)
    (888) 373-4810 (toll free)
    (512) 328-1696 (fax)
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