Sales Engineer Intern

About Liferay Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,200+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay Experience Cloud is an all-in-one solution that unites our Liferay DXP and cloud platform capabilities with built-in analytics and B2B commerce functionality, reducing the time to market and allowing for accelerated innovation - serving notable customers across the globe such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins. But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. We give our employees five days off to volunteer at charities they’re excited about, and Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!About You and this RoleAre you eager to jumpstart your career in Sales Engineering? Look no further! Liferay Japan is looking for a Sales Engineer Intern to learn the skills, knowledge, and experiences needed to have a long term successful career. We’re a distributed and collaborative sales team, and believe there are no boundaries between customer service and technical sales, engineering and storytelling, closing and consulting. Sales Engineers are both highly technical and laser-focused on business solutions. We work in teams with account executives, customer experience managers, inside sales, and marketing. The Sales Engineer is the technical expert and resource for : solution architecture, development best practices, identity management, integration points, UI / UX, system administration, mobile strategy, content management, web analytics, DevOps best practices, high availability & clustering, cloud infrastructure, and all features of Liferay DXP and its suite of products. Sales Engineers provide technical justification and business consultation, and are trusted advisors to technology directors, CTOs, and software architects as they go through the buyer journey.Key Objectives

• Learn the business-technical support for the Account Executives and Channel Account Managers during calls, meetings, and demos (online or on-site)
• Work with a Sales Engineer to gain knowledge about Liferay products, providing system engineering and system architecture best practices and techniques, both internally and outbound
• Help create and conduct demonstrations to both a business and technical audiences - including PoCs (Proof of Concepts)
• Provide any assistance to help potential clients or business partners to overcome technical questions, barriers, and architectural hurdles
• Support with answers to RFP / RFI documents submitted by potential clients, with particular attention to technical and advanced product questions, under tight deadlines on a regular basis
• Help to create and maintain solution-based demo environments and bundles using existing collateral and new materials that you create
• Help update and maintain Liferay Japan website

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