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Spotnana Technology

Spotnana Technology

Sales & Business Development
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Are you ready for the best destination of your career?

Spotnana is modernizing the infrastructure of the $1.4 trillion travel industry in order to bring freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers everywhere. With over $115M in funding from top tier investors, including ICONIQ and Madrona Venture Group, we are tackling the hardest problems the travel industry has to offer and we need your help.

Culture is always fluid. It evolves as a business grows, along with the people who drive it forward. We seek people who have different perspectives, but shared values. Before you embark on this journey, quickly check in on whether you are aligned with our company values:

  1. Obsessed with Customer Needs: We earn the trust and loyalty of our customers by solving their problems.
  2. Do the Impossible: We solve tough problems through innovation and are inspired by unprecedented challenges.
  3. Build Globally, Serve Locally: We embrace a global mindset and celebrate diversity as we serve customers around the world.
  4. Act Like Owners: We constantly find problems to solve. Decisions are not made in isolation. We work hard, work smart, and work together.
  5. Constantly Change, Learn & Evolve: We flourish by adapting quickly to new challenges and by learning from everyone around us. Building something new is not always glamorous work. Roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty, and evolve.
  6. Respect Above All: We are humble and treat others with the same respect we desire for ourselves. Our work culture is a safe environment where everyone is open to feedback and new ideas.

The Sales Engineer role at Spotnana is an exciting and rewarding position. We are looking for a technical sales professional with knowledge of the travel market to help bring the Spotnana platform to life. The Sales Engineer acts as a trusted advisor and plays an integral part in delivering a first-class experience to our customers.

This individual will serve as the lead advocate for customers; translating technical needs into product development recommendations, testing customer environments, and driving customer demand/features internally within Spotnana. Must be able to understand and articulate Spotnana's architectural advantages to our customers and support the sales team when it comes to proposing and designing solutions to our customer's biggest challenges.

The ideal candidate will be self-driven and have a background in travel, integrations, Marketplace/APIs, and/or competitive equivalent.

Responsibilities

  • Designing next-generation travel solutions for Spotnana customers
  • Conducting demo and proof of concepts for prospective Spotnana customers
  • Solution and architectural design and selling
  • RFQ/RFP response/preparation
  • Building competitive intelligence
  • Working across multiple boundaries
  • Driving the Spotnana vision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field or working experience equivalent
  • 5+ years working in a customer facing technical role, SaaS sales experience is strongly preferred
  • 5+ years working in the travel software applications industry
  • Thorough competitive knowledge (in their area of specialization) including solution, technology, and product offerings
  • Strong business acumen and executive presence
  • Create, present, and document technical solutions
  • Ability to present topics in a clear and concise manner to many levels of technical skill sets and audience sizes
  • Excellent communication skills

How you can impress us

  • End-to-end travel systems knowledge
  • Ability to apply travel systems knowledge to customer solution design
  • Formulate and communicate a technical solution/vision
  • Understand Spotnana partner and ecosystem partners, products, and applications
  • Mentor developing team members
  • Act as a leader, when the situation warrants
  • Be flexible and able to function in a high growth environment

Let's talk compensation

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive, and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position’s compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications.

The annual cash compensation for this role is:

Benefits offered include:

  • Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
  • Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
  • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical (United Healthcare or Kaiser), dental (Guardian), vision (Guardian), life (Mutual of Omaha), and disability (Mutual of Omaha) effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
  • Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
  • 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
  • Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
  • Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
  • Additional benefits including access to RocketLawyer’s online legal platform, International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values in everyone on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where opportunities are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion for people from all walks of life is key to our success as a company.