Associate Sales Engineer

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BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.

Reporting to the Director, Sales Engineering & Solutions Architecture, you’ll leverage your technical and BigCommerce knowledge to help win active sales opportunities. The ASE works closely with our Small Business Account Executives throughout the sales process, assisting with product demonstrations, recommending solutions, and providing industry and product expertise to our smaller, less sophisticated prospects. In addition, the ASE acts as a technical resource to the broader sales team and supports the SE team on the quarterly initiatives.  

What You’ll Do:

  • Educate prospects in the SMB space on BigCommerce solution by providing a consultative, best practices approach including analysis and analytics to match prospect’s business and technical requirements
  • Conduct needs analysis and technical scoping sessions with prospective customers to gather and document key requirements
  • Become fluent in competitive positioning and be effective in differentiating BigCommerce
  • Provide pre-sales technical consulting to Sales staff by participating in online demonstrations, conference calls with our Account Executives
  • Document all customer questions to ensure immediate follow-up on all outstanding issues
  • Work closely with the Account Executives and Sales Engineers to respond to proposals and RFP’s to ensure that all technical information and recommendations address client’s requirements
  • Contribute to the SE team with RFP responses, Proof-of-concept builds and app/technology research
  • Collaborate with Sales Enablement, Product and Client Services teams to advocate for solutions that will help us improve overall win rates
  • Own and lead the VoP (Voice of the prospect) effort for the Small Business team
  • Shadow SE demos and solution presentations to learn and develop strong Sales Engineering skills
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, for usually 1-2 days per visit to support prospects, partners and industry events.

Who You Are:

  • Knowledge and Experience
      • 2+ years of Sales, Sales Engineering, or Services experience in a relevant market strongly preferred
      • BA/BS in technology or equivalent experience required
      • Strong knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON.
      • Strong written and verbal communication skills are a requirement.
      • Experience with commerce solutions and applications including POS, product catalogs, order management, ERP and payment gateways a plus.
      • Sales methodology and Solution selling training a plus
  • Characteristics and Abilities 
    • Driven - You are energetic, self-starting, and have a sense of urgency and passion for winning
    • Personable - You maintain a positive attitude, build others up, and relate well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization
    • Effective Prioritizer - You effectively manage your workload and prioritize activities
    • Problem Solver - You’re adept at using critical thinking to assess and solution for prospects with low to moderate levels of sophistication and complexity
    • Thoughtful - You anticipate where potential issues are and plan your approach accordingly
    • Collaborative - You collaborate readily and easily and are able to motivate multiple groups toward accomplishing a task
    • Master Communicator - You possess strong verbal, presentation, written, listening, and organizational skills
    • Credible - You possess relevant business and industry knowledge, project mature self-confidence, and can hold your own with members of an executive team
    • Ethical - You believe in our mission, share our values and understand that it’s not just about what you get done, but also how you do it

Diversity & Inclusion at BigCommerce
We have the opportunity to build not only a great business, but a great company, with soul. Our beliefs and commitment to diversity and inclusion are a central part of achieving that.

Our dedication to diversity and inclusion is grounded in two things: a moral belief in the dignity, value, and potential of every individual, and a practical belief that diverse, inclusive teams will create the best outcomes for our customers, partners, employees, and company. We welcome everyone to be a part of our journey.

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Location

Our HQ is set amongst trees and nature trails in the beautiful hills of Austin.

What are BigCommerce Perks + Benefits

BigCommerce Benefits Overview

We empower our employees to think big and do great work by offering a positive work environment and outstanding benefits.

For your health: We offer multiple national medical insurance plans including PPO and HDHP options. We also offer a PPO dental plan and vision insurance.

For your wealth: We offer a 401(k) retirement plan, a Health Savings Account (HSA), a Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCRA) as pre-tax benefits. We also offer company paid life insurance up to 3 times your annual salary, as well as company paid short-term & long-term disability insurance.

For your resilient self: We care about your wellbeing in addition to your health and wealth. To assist with that, we offer paid vacation leave (15 days PTO for hourly employees and open vacation for our salary employees). All employees receive paid sick leave, paid volunteer time, and a paid wellness day. We have multiple family benefits for caregivers including paid parental leave, newborn child sick leave, adoption assistance, and a flexible return to work policy. We also offer educational reimbursements, a free BigCommerce ecommerce store, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Last, but definitely not least, we like to enjoy ourselves at work. We have company-sponsored employee programs including Employee Resource Groups, culture clubs, even virtual events.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We encourage our employees to give back to our local communities through volunteer work. BigCommerce provides two paid Charity/Volunteering Leave days per calendar year to all permanent employees.
Partners with nonprofits
Each year, the BC family partners with Partnerships for Children to help kids in the Austin area who have been taken from their homes and are living in protective custody during the holidays.
Open door policy
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
BEmpowered for women, non-binary people, and allies; BProud for LGBTQ+ and allies; B-United for Veterans and allies; BCinColor for people of color and allies; BigFamily for caregivers and alli
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
National United HealthCare PPO & HDHP plan options with deductibles as low as $500, coverage up to 100% for in-network services and low monthly premiums
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
BigCommerce offers equity to employees through a number of different occasions, including an annual equity performance review period.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Unlimited vacation policy for salaried team members and generous accrued time off policy for non-exempt team members.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
We offer employees parking in a garage on the property.
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
BigCommerce offers a variety of opportunities for learning and development from training sessions and workshops, to different conferences to attend.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Career mentorship is available.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

We empower our employees to define culture in the areas of wellness & fitness, community & volunteerism, and team building through local culture clubs that help our employees connect. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) support our diverse workforce through supportive, inclusive networks that help develop awareness and respect across the company. We sustain our culture by understanding what drives our employees' engagement, measuring that engagement, and implementing initiatives to continue to make BigCommerce an even better place to work.

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