Technical Sales Director

Brisbane, QLD /
Sales & Customer Success /
Full-time
/ Remote
Our Mission to be Bold and Impactful
 
- Build a global team of SMEs focus on positioning Emesent as the world leader in autonomous digitalisation of industrial assets
- Lead the team and engage with customers/market to promote Emesent solutions
- Help shape and influence Emesent’s product roadmap and be the internal ‘voice-of-customer’ to ensure our solutions are focused on customer needs/pain points

 
How you contribute
The Technical Sales Director will serve as technical champion and subject matter expert for all Emesent solutions. Reporting to VP Sales the incumbent will lead a global team of technical SMEs to ensure all solutions meet current and emerging market/customer requirements.

Here’s what we need

    • Team Management
    • Recruit technical/presales team members.
    • Manage the global technical/presales sales team and inspire exemplary performance and delivery.
    • Identifies performance gaps, manages with coaching, feedback, and staff reassignment or
    • remediation as appropriate. Continually improves staff performance based on agreed upon metrics.
    • Monitors overall technical sales delivery standards, ensuring consistency of customer engagement.
    • Lead and inspire a geographically disperse team of experts to passionately ‘push the limits’ and
    • support the validation of new usecases and opportunities for Emesent’s solutions.

    • Sales Support
    • Lead the team to support business development efforts by promoting and demonstrate Emesent solutions to customers globally.
    • Identify new market opportunities for Emesent solutions.
    • Work with Emesent marketing to develop sales and promotional material and ensure the technical integrity of the company’s solutions are presented correctly and customers/market.
    • Visit trade shows and initiate sales opportunities in conjunction with the business development team.

    • Product Development
    • Work closely with Product Management, collate feedback from customers and help prioritise new product development.
    • Be the SME leader and ensure that the ‘voice of customer’ is elevated within product development.

    • Training
    • Lead the team to deliver customer training and work closely with the customer support/operations teams to set customer training priorities and calendar.
    • Assist in the development of training materials and courses, where necessary/ Assist in the training of customers in the use of the products/solutions.
    • Support the sales teams to identify external training opportunities.

    • Business Planning, Delivery and Business Performance
    • Help drive the delivery of business objectives in line with approved strategy and business plan.
    • Ensure related KPIs are agreed and delivered (for example, demo and/or Proof of Concept targets).

    • Effective People Processes, Approaches and Activities
    • Cascade and demonstrate Emesent’s values, behaviours and approaches.
    • Help develop and maintain Emesent’s culture, including the appropriate approaches to people, delivery, customer experience and technical excellence.
    • Promote and focus on people development and a coaching culture across the business.

How you’ll succeed

    • A geospatial, survey or earth sciences related degree essential with at least 8+ years of experience working for a technology, software or hardware provider.
    • Entrepreneurial spirit / ability to roll up your sleeves and try different things with minimal direction.
    • A demonstrated record of partnering with teams across the organization and influencing to achieve business results across multiple teams who may have different goals.
    • Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule trade-offs and champion opportunistic new ideas with technical and non-technical employees.
    • Experience leading and coordinating the work and competences of a team of subject matter experts.
    • Proven project management skills essential – evidence of managing people, and/or projects desirable.
    • Excellent communication and presentation skills – ability to present at high level industry events, to large enterprises and to diverse groups of professionals.
    • Flexible, motivated and enthusiastic with a positive attitude.
    • Drive and ambition to succeed within a fast growing company.
    • Ability to travel globally as required.

    • Get a competitive remuneration package.
    • Participate in our employee share option scheme (Equity).
    • Work alongside a friendly and passionate team on cutting edge technology!
    • Take up our genuine learning and development opportunities.
    • Enjoy our highly favored and appreciated meeting free Wednesdays!
    • Take up our paid parental leave. 
    • Casual dress code.
    • Take part in our generous employee referral scheme.
Who Are We?

Emesent has built a reputation as the key leader in automating data collection in challenging environments. Our award-winning technology, Hovermap, utilises innovative hardware, advanced algorithms and machine learning to automate collection and analysis of the physical world. Customers are able to acquire data in GPS-denied environments gaining insights that were not possible before. Our rapidly growing customer base are in the fields of mining, infrastructure and survey & mapping.
 
Starting from a humble vision in  Brisbane, Australia, with deep connections to Australia's globally recognised CSIRO, Emesent has made an emerging name for itself across the Globe and is successfully becoming a world leader in this unique industry of autonomous technology!
 
At Emesent we pride ourselves on the way our people operate, we embrace diversity and equal opportunity, and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds.
Our global talents are a cut above the rest who are at the top of their game, thriving in a collaborative environment. The work culture here is inclusive with the perfect balance of delivering results and pushing the boundaries all whilst having a little fun!