Product Specialist, Data Integration

Job ID: SALE06467
Job Title: Product Specialist, Data Integration
Organization: Sales

Our Company
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives. More than 4,350 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise and in the Cloud.

Our Team
The sales teams play a vital role not only with regard to revenue generation, but also with Informatica's reputation in the marketplace. We are the frontline evangelists, the direct line to our customers. Our success is due to the knowledge that we can confidently stand behind every product we offer as well as the unlimited potential for personal and professional growth that a position in Sales affords us.

Your Opportunity
This position plays a lead role in supporting technical field personnel on delivering Informatica Data Integration solutions across industries and verticals. You'll act as a technical member of the sales team and work to ensure technical wins during sales cycles by performing technical qualification of opportunities, architecture solutions, performing solution demonstrations, and proving Informatica's technical capabilities.

Our Ideal Candidate
You have demonstrable experience in deploying best practices and methodologies with technology to address batch and Real Time Data integration challenges in a variety of environments, as well as experience with relational databases. You possess excellent technical, troubleshooting, and organizational skills, and an ability to collaborate with client and sales teams, employing good written and verbal communication skills.

Your Responsibilities
You'll work with account managers, channel managers, solution architects, professional services, and partners to define and execute account plans and sales strategies for pursuing specific opportunities. You'll also define and propose technical architectures (including associated business and technical benefits) that meet the objectives and requirements of the prospects. A key part of this role is explaining and demonstrating the benefit of Informatica's Data Integration products (architecture, features, technical/business benefits, competitive differentiators etc.) to prospects through presentations, detailed discussions, demos, and other proof points in order to reinforce the value proposition driven by the account team. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Ensure customer satisfaction and reference ability' through post-sales assistance with technical questions and issues.
- Provide Product Management, Product Marketing, and other corporate personnel with input and feedback on product direction, individual features, positioning, and competitive discoveries.
- Grow and enhance your personal knowledge of industry trends, company solutions, information technology, and your competition.

Your Qualifications
- Degree in computer science or technical discipline related to data integration
- 2+ years of experience in implementation and/or pre-sales
- Experience working with relational database solutions
- Solid knowledge working with Linux/Unix
- Experience with Informatica PowerCenter, or other data integration suites (DataStage, Ab Initio, Talend) - a plus
- Experience with deployment of web services - a plus

Informatica offers a competitive compensation package that includes base salary, medical, retirement and employee stock purchase (ESP) programs, flexible time off and more. Our generous benefits vary depending on your geographic work location. It's an exciting time to work at Informatica, you can learn more about our company, and our products and services at our website. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
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Department: 500031 Enterprise Arch Servs Team
Region: North America
Country: United States of America
State: California
City: Redwood City
Interest: Sales Consulting
Interest Category: Sales

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Organization: Sales Consulting