January 9, 2025

Headquarters: Absolutely distant corporate (international, included in France)

Do you care about contributing to open-source and different network reasons? We do too! : )

OpenCraft is searching for a gross sales engineer who can discover ways to talk with authority at the products and services we offer.

Open-source

We’re a staff of veteran open-source builders, operating on instructional and community-based initiatives in an open-first setting – and we’re searching for a staff member who can assist us organize consumer relationships and care for gross sales.

Our staff specializes in customized instrument building and massive scale deployments of the Open edX Platform. For the reason that product we’re offering could be very technical, and maximum of our leads are technical managers, we require our gross sales engineer to have robust engineering basics to be able to talk with authority on our products and services.

This staff member will act as a handy guide a rough reference for engineering questions and ballpark estimates, paintings with different engineers at the staff to construct proposals, and be the primary staff member maximum leads meet. They’re going to information the gross sales procedure from begin to end. The paintings you do will affect inexperienced persons everywhere in the global.

Far off-first

In contrast to corporations who reluctantly began to just accept distant employees just lately, we have now embraced it from day 1. For the previous 10+ years, we have now founded and delicate our manner of operating round remote-friendly workflows, from the bottom up. No day-long video conferences, obligatory paintings hours, or chance of being compelled again into an administrative center in the future — so long as you will have a just right web connection, it’s none of our industry the place you’re employed from. 🙂

We’re all operating remotely, from all continents (apart from Antarctica, no less than up to now – candidates welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows in line with asynchronous ideas and just right documentation practices.

For this gross sales place, it is important to agenda time to fulfill with shoppers, which might be most commonly in US time zones. So long as your agenda can overlap sufficient with the United States to constantly dangle conferences with potentialities, you’ll be able to paintings the place you prefer.

On-line training

Contracting phrases

This can be a part-time to full-time, everlasting contract place, billable hourly. We goal for long-term relationships — as soon as in, virtually all staff individuals keep for a few years. 

We care about paying slightly: 

  • Staff individuals set their very own repayment degree, which is paid in line with hours labored (no unpaid additional time!). 
  • When figuring out your price, we can be expecting you to think about advantages (holiday, healthcare, acquire budgets, and so on.) – the theory is to let you select the advantages which can be helpful to you, somewhat than be offering one-size-fits-all applications that aren’t at all times very treasured.
  • We additionally proactively observe beneficiant raises team-wide, in line with the corporate effects on the finish of each and every 12 months. See the main points about how we way repayment in our manual.

We additionally firmly imagine in work-life stability: so long as you ship what you decide to, there may be a large number of latitude in how a lot paintings you’ll be able to select to just accept. We’re open to time commitments any place within the 20h to 40h/week vary, and extremely discourage operating greater than that. It’s necessary to have time to ourselves, in addition to having some slack, and there are diminishing returns in operating extra anyway.

We’re a extremely collaborative building staff operating in an agile setting. We have now constructed a most commonly flat group, composed of 30 senior instrument builders with a handful of strengthen team of workers. You’ll be operating with extremely competent people who take duty for his or her paintings, and the similar might be anticipated of you.
We belong to self-organized groups, so control doesn’t intrude with our day by day duties and management is situational. You’ll lead some initiatives and sign up for others. You’ll have an excessive amount of discretion within the paintings that you just do and far of your paintings might be publicly viewable. Staff individuals are regularly finding out from each and every different, and we position an emphasis on sustainable paintings practices and psychological well being. We assist each and every different out when the surprising occurs and provides kudos and popularity for paintings smartly accomplished.
Camaraderie is powerful, requirements are prime, and so is the retention price. We spend money on documentation and automation in order that redundant paintings is minimized and staff individuals can focal point on extra fascinating issues. The paintings is totally distant – maximum making plans is completed asynchronously, and the dash procedure itself is iteratively progressed. We focal point on minimizing conferences so after they do occur it’s for productive causes. As a way to be certain that we nonetheless get some face time, we agenda not obligatory social occasions to speak, play video games, and interact in different actions. We additionally meet annually in individual on the Open edX Convention, and use the chance to fulfill everybody, along side the remainder of the network, and do a staff retreat.
OpenCraft runs at the open first idea. Maximum of our conversations, code, and insurance policies are publicly viewable.

We welcome candidates of all genders and ethnicities.

Elementary Necessities:

  • Enjoy in gross sales and buyer account control
  • Will have to have made contributions to open supply initiatives

Enjoy with:

  • Django
  • React or a an identical frontend framework
  • REST APIs
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • A minimum of one RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
  • Git
  • Ok with preserving conferences, acting displays and talking publicly
  • Robust English verbal exchange talents, each written and spoken
  • Robust interpersonal talents
  • Familiarity with gear like Trello, Jira, and GitLab
  • Convenience with operating with a most commonly asynchronous staff (maximum communications might be over e-mail)
  • Can-do angle
  • Consideration to element

This stuff are a plus and more potent attention might be given to applicants who can meet those:

  • Wisdom of the training academia and trade – particularly on-line finding out, MOOCs or the Open edX on-line path platform
  • Enjoy Taking part in collaborative on-line communities – eg. boards, video games, open supply
  • Weblog submit and/or copywriting enjoy
  • Familiarity with mission making plans gear like Jira, Trello, or GitLab
  • Skillability with Google Sheets or different Spreadsheet systems
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