January 30, 2025

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

Do you care about contributing to open-source and different network reasons? We do too! 🙂 OpenCraft is on the lookout for a trade building/gross sales specialist with a forged working out of generation who can discover ways to talk with authority at the products and services we offer.

Open-source

We’re a workforce of veteran open-source builders, operating on instructional and community-based tasks in an open-first atmosphere – and we’re on the lookout for a workforce member who can lend a hand us organize consumer relationships and take care of gross sales. The paintings you do will have an effect on newcomers all over the international.

Far off-first

In contrast to corporations who reluctantly began to just accept distant employees not too long ago, now we have embraced it from day 1. For the previous 10+ years, now we have founded and delicate our manner of operating round remote-friendly workflows, from the bottom up. No day-long video conferences, necessary paintings hours, or chance of being compelled again into an workplace at some point — so long as you have got a excellent web connection, it’s none of our trade the place you’re employed from. 🙂

We’re all operating remotely, from all continents (apart from Antarctica, no less than to this point – candidates welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows in keeping with asynchronous rules and excellent documentation practices.

For this gross sales place, it is very important agenda time to satisfy with shoppers, that are most commonly in US time zones. So long as your agenda can overlap sufficient with the United States to persistently dangle conferences with potentialities, you’ll paintings the place you prefer.

On-line training


Contracting phrases

It is a part-time to full-time, everlasting contract place, billable hourly. We goal for long-term relationships — as soon as in, virtually all workforce participants keep for a few years. 

We care about paying relatively: 

  • Staff participants set their very own repayment stage, which is paid in keeping with hours labored (no unpaid time beyond regulation!). 
  • When figuring out your charge, 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 are helpful to you, fairly than be offering one-size-fits-all programs that aren’t at all times very treasured.
  • We additionally proactively observe beneficiant raises team-wide, in keeping with the corporate effects on the finish of each and every yr. See the main points about how we manner repayment in our guide.

We additionally firmly consider in work-life steadiness: so long as you ship what you decide to, there may be numerous latitude in how a lot paintings you’ll make a selection 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 essential 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 workforce operating in an agile atmosphere. Now we have constructed a most commonly flat group, composed of 30 senior instrument builders with a handful of beef up team of workers. You are going to 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 intervene with our day by day duties and management is situational. You are going to lead some tasks and sign up for others. You are going to have a substantial amount of discretion within the paintings that you simply do and far of your paintings might be publicly viewable. Staff participants are regularly finding out from each and every different, and we position an emphasis on sustainable paintings practices and psychological well being. We lend a hand each and every different out when the surprising occurs and provides kudos and popularity for paintings smartly finished.
Camaraderie is powerful, requirements are top, and so is the retention charge. We spend money on documentation and automation in order that redundant paintings is minimized and workforce participants can focal point on extra attention-grabbing issues. The paintings is totally distant – maximum making plans is completed asynchronously, and the dash procedure itself is iteratively stepped forward. We focal point on minimizing conferences so once they do occur it’s for productive causes. As a way to make sure that we nonetheless get some face time, we agenda non-compulsory social occasions to speak, play video games, and interact in different actions. We additionally meet annually in particular person on the Open edX Convention, and use the chance to satisfy everybody, along side the remainder of the network, and do a workforce 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.

Fundamental Necessities:

  • Enjoy in B2B gross sales and buyer account control
  • Pleased with retaining conferences, appearing shows and talking publicly
  • Robust English conversation abilities, each written and spoken
  • Robust interpersonal abilities
  • Convenience with operating with a most commonly asynchronous workforce (maximum communications might be over electronic mail and gear like Jira and GitLab)
  • 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 business – particularly on-line finding out, MOOCs or the Open edX on-line path platform
  • Engineering revel in: In the event you’ve been a training engineer who switched to gross sales, that may be most popular.
  • Enjoy Collaborating in collaborative on-line communities – eg. boards, video games, open supply
  • Weblog put up and/or copywriting revel in
  • Familiarity with mission making plans gear like Jira, Trello, or GitLab
  • Skillability with Google Sheets or different Spreadsheet systems

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