Senior Presales Engineer (m/f/d) - France, Remote

THE LOCATION: Paris, France (Remote) 

THE ROLE 

This position requires daily customer, business partner and internal team interaction in France. Together with the regional Sales team you will be engaged in a customer’s journey from the discovery phase to the post sales handover. Keeping track of customer cases in the helpdesk program and utilizing this system to delegate, engaging your peers, and moving sales opportunities towards closure are routine activities.  

Expect to travel 2-3 weeks out of a month and 2-3 days each of those weeks. A strong desire to learn and a “can do, want to learn” attitude is needed. You will be working with an experienced, motivated team willing to share their knowledge and experience to help you expand your skillset and succeed in reaching your goals. 

TASKS AND RESPONSABILITIES 

• Be part of a team of Presales engineers providing excellent service to IGEL’s customers and partners in France
• Technical contact for new customers from the discovery and qualification phase to post sales handover
• Build and maintain customer and partner rapport through virtual meetings and on-site visits
• Analysis of customer needs and development of technical solutions
• Prepare, execute, and support proof of concepts
• Take ownership of technical RFIs, RFPs and public tenders and respond in time
• Works on complex projects
• Architect solutions by working with the customer directly or in conjunction with both the partner and customer while adhering to the IGEL reference architecture and best practices
• Assist new technology partners to integrate their solution into IGEL OS if required and hand it over to the IGEL Ready team to generate new business

• Become a Subject Matter Expert in a specific technology stack
• Use of remote tools to demonstrate IGEL’s solutions and to assist customers in troubleshooting issues
• Ensure a clear and professional communication between our teams and the customer
• Execution and pro-active preparation and follow-up of technical product presentations and workshops
• Demonstrate our technology at industry events and tradeshows
• Promote IGEL training offerings, additional IGEL services and IGEL Certifications
• May assist less-experienced colleagues
• Wide latitude for independent judgement
• Collaborate with teams from Development, Customer Engineering, Advanced Services, Sales, Marketing and Leadership to create new technical sales strategies
• Communication of customer / market requirements to the Product Management and Development
• Continue education by attending training sessions and reading technical documentation
• Work through technical issues at the operating system level
• Manage technical issues, solutions, and sales opportunity progress by creating cases within IGEL’s helpdesk system
• Manage case escalation to maintain forward movement on sales opportunities
• Ability and willingness to travel as needed

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFACATIONS 

Personal skills 

• Highly skilled with extensive proficiency

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, sales teams, and management
• Strong presentation skills
• A team player who is influential and builds good working relationships across all levels
• Flexibility, integrity, and creative problem-solving skills are imperative to be successful in this role
• Very good ability to understand and explain complex technical issues in an easy way
• Ability to communicate via phone and email is required
• Ability to listen effectively and show patience while working with customers, colleagues, and partners
• Ability to adapt to new technologies quickly
• Ability to work independently under minimal supervision
• Ability to take effective notes
• Ability to multitask effectively and work under pressure
• Positive work ethic
• Fluent in French and English
• Spanish as an additional language preferable but not essential

Technical skills 

• Minimum of six to nine years Presales Engineer experience required
• Working knowledge of Linux Operating Systems
• In-depth knowledge of IGEL’s products and solutions, especially IGEL OS, the Universal Management Suite and the IGEL Cloud Gateway or other Thin Client/Endpoint operating systems is a plus
• Working knowledge of Windows Operating Systems

• Experience in Remote Desktop Services, Azure Virtual Desktop, AWS, Citrix, VMware Horizon environments
• Knowledge of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, AD, etc.
• Good understanding of the solutions offered by IGEL’s technology partners

Matt Krajnik 

Matt.krajnik@igel.com 

IGEL Technology 

Green Park, 200 Brook Drive, 

Reading, Berkshire, RG2 6UB, 

United Kingdom,  

Mob: 07939236699 

Interested? Apply now via our online applicant portal! 

If you have any questions about the position or application process, our HR team is happy to assist. 

Please note that we are unable to hire applicants residing in countries outside our legal entity countries. Please note that IGEL does not currently have a sponsorship license and is regrettably unable to offer sponsorship.