Client Solutions Director

Reporting to Chief Revenue Officer, the Client Solutions Director’s primary responsibilities are to: initially, be hands-on in supporting our pre-sales efforts and leading our professional services team; scale the team and enable our positive culture focused on talent development; enable customer success strategy, with particular emphasis on defining and delivering complex solutions to enterprise clients.

Toronto, ON

iTMethods

<p>At iTMethods, our mission is to provide the leading integrated DevOps SaaS Platform that enables companies to compete by securely delivering software faster and with higher quality.</p> <p>Our DevOps SaaS Platform provides a flexible and integrated toolchain that allows development teams to focus on building software without having to maintain an ever-evolving set of DevOps tools and capabilities. The platform automates access to industry-leading applications from Atlassian, CloudBees Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Sonatype, JFrog, SonarQube and many more. It delivers enterprise security, hybrid integration, reliability, scalability and a host of platform add-ons that streamline the onboarding of users and teams across the enterprise.</p> https://www.itmethods.com/

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Mid Level

Overview: <p><strong>The Opportunity</strong><br />iTMethods is seeking an&nbsp;exceptional leader to scale our pre-sales and professional services team. This role is a key step in our growth strategy and will be an ongoing part of our leadership team. It is also a great opportunity for someone who wants to grow their career in B2B solution sales, be part of a dynamic culture, and make an impact on an expanding team!</p> <p>We&rsquo;re looking for someone who matches our entrepreneurial spirit, embraces collaboration, increases our agility and speed-to-market, and also possesses a passion for customer success.</p> <p><strong>Who We Are</strong><br />We Enable Enterprise DevOps. iTMethods&rsquo; Managed Cloud Platform securely enables global enterprises to integrate, migrate, and modernize their complex, multi-vendor DevOps environments. The result is our world-wide clients&rsquo; can build better software, faster and more securely, to enhance their pace of innovation.</p> <p>iTMethods&rsquo; is in a great position to capitalize on the tremendous industry growth of DevOps, a field driving how companies accelerate Digital Transformation. We&rsquo;re essentially a &ldquo;15-year old start-up&rdquo;, offering the best options of: an established company trusted to support mission critical applications of some of the world&rsquo;s largest companies; a trusted partner to many of the industry&rsquo;s leaders like Atlassian, AWS, CloudBees (Jenkins), GitHub, GitLab, Sonatype, JFrog (Artifactory), SonarSource, and many more; and, the dynamics of a company well positioned for the next phase of growth.</p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong><br />Reporting to Chief Revenue Officer, the Client Solutions Director&rsquo;s primary responsibilities are to: initially, be hands-on in supporting our pre-sales efforts and leading our professional services team; scale the team and enable our positive culture focused on talent development; enable customer success strategy, with particular emphasis on defining and delivering complex solutions to enterprise clients; and, help implement go-to-market best practices for us to scale both the team and our company. The position is based in Toronto and the selected candidate will have the ability to initially work in a remote, home office for the remainder of 2020.</p>
Responsibilities: <p>Expectations for the successful candidate include:</p> <ul> <li>Be a key DevOps subject matter expert for the organization. Initially leading pre-sales activities, and our professional services team, you will help buildout the team with an emphasis on developing/coaching talent and implementing practices which allow us to predict and scale our business.</li> <li>Lead pre-sales engineering activities including technical discovery, technical value proposition, architectural guidance, SOW creation, pricing estimates, and sales support. Goal is to help communicate our unique value and differentiate our services in the market. Includes ability to communicate well with both technical, IT contacts and business leads.</li> <li>Drive quality and consistency in sales methodology, business development strategy, and post-sales deliverables across the coworkers on the team and our Solution Architecture practice.</li> <li>Manage pipeline and forecasts to help us exceed product and service revenue targets.</li> <li>Good organizational and time-management skills. You have a good attention to detail and numbers. You also have ability to manage your day-to-day business in CRM.</li> <li>Use of question based or solution selling principles to understand and identify customer requirements.</li> <li>Help sales design and pitch effective sales presentations and platform demonstrations.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p><strong>Qualifications Include:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years Technical Pre-Sales / Sales Engineering or equivalent experience. Ideal candidates will have a demonstrated record of success in building, scaling, and leading pre-sales and post sales teams within a goal-oriented sales culture.</li> <li>DevOps and Hybrid Cloud Experience. Ability to provide expert guidance on DevOps concepts with strong skill sets in private/public cloud architecture, networking, IT operations, security, and development technologies and processes. Proficiency in understanding concepts and technologies in DevOps, networking, IT operations, security, cloud, microservices, and containers.</li> <li>Technical Aptitude. Experience working with cloud solution providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). AWS Associate/Professional and/or Azure Associate/Expert Certified. Proficiency and/or knowledge of existing DevOps tools such as Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Artifactory, SonarQube, and others.</li> <li>Effective communication, presentation, and negotiation skills. Particularly as an executive sponsor to support the sales team developing key client relationships. You understand the technical challenges of systems building and can bring your insights to the role, explaining your choices and influencing decisions. You can explain highly complex technical concepts to decision-making executives.</li> <li>You are advanced at MS Office. Ideally, you have been exposed to collaboration tools such as Jira, Slack, Salesforce and Confluence, or similar technologies in the past.&nbsp;</li> <li>Ability to occasionally travel across North America.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What&rsquo;s in it for you?</strong><br />This role is critical to helping iTMethods scale and grow our market share. Your success is our success! In this role you will benefit from the following:&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Organizational Exposure. </em>As a key part of our leadership and sales teams, your work will touch every part of our organization, working across departments as you collaborate with teams in sales, finance, marketing, engineering, and customer success.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Scale.</em> Joining iTMethods now is a chance to get in at the ground level of a rapidly growing tech company. You will be mentored and guided by our leaders, learning the business and helping us scale. As we continue to grow and expand, opportunities with us are yours for the taking.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Personal Growth. </em>Given how DevOps is transforming how companies embrace Digital Transformation, this role will open a number of career possibilities. You may continue to develop your craft, expanding your career, and playing a key role in coaching/mentoring others to achieve their goals.</p> <p><em>A Great Culture.&nbsp;</em>At iTMethods, our people genuinely care for each other - we enjoy winning together and making improvements when something doesn&rsquo;t go our way. If you don&rsquo;t have all the experience, we&rsquo;re looking for here but believe you have the drive and passion to learn quickly and thrive in a small but highly productive team - then we want to hear from you!</p> <p><strong>Join us</strong><br />Apply here or learn more about us on our&nbsp;website (<a href="https://www.itmethods.com/">www.itmethods.com</a>), <a href="https://medium.com/@itmethods">Medium</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/itmethods-inc">LinkedIn</a>.</p>