Marin’s Strategic Accounts organization is responsible for providing pre-sales technical support and the oversight of onboarding customers post sales, contributing to the quality and ultimately success of both the sales and on-boarding processes.


Marin is looking for a Sales Engineer, reporting directly to the VP of Strategic Accounts, which can support the following requirements pre-sales and post-sales activities.


Pre-sales activities include:

· Supporting Marin account executives with presentations to diverse, enterprise-class audiences ranging from C-Level Execs to IT resources

· Assisting in the execution of overall sales methodology for a prospect

· Serving as a point of contact for technical Q&A related to Marin integration related to:

o JavaScript/Server-side Pixel Integration

o FTP/SFTP File Transfer

o Custom Reporting Requirements (SQL)

o Web Services (SOAP/XML)

· Assisting in technical responses to RFPs, RFIs, and creation of client-facing / internal documentation

· Serving as a conduit of prospect-related product features to the product team for roadmap consideration

· Gathering customer technical requirements / details of environment for review and development of on-boarding strategy

· Serving as technical application specialist in bidding, reporting, and integration


Post-sales activities include:

· Managing client services and technical resources to ensure a successful on-boarding customer experience

· Continuing the build out of Marin’s enterprise-class documentation and methodologies for account on-boarding

· Serving as a point of contact for non-routine technical issues

· Defining custom integration / reporting requirements for implementation by Client Services Automation team

· Serving as customer-facing point person to coordinate the technical on-boarding processes

· Serving as an expert of the integration strategies for common 3rd party tracking tools Marin integrates with like Atlas, DART, Omniture, Google Analytics, Coremetrics, and more


Qualifications Required:

· Strong understanding of URLs, URL Encoding, redirects, and parameter passing

· Strong relational databases/SQL queries experience (MySQL preferred)

· Strong written and verbal communications skills

· Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

· Prior sales training / product demonstrations with intuitive grasp of selling techniques

· Hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel formulas and macro language

· Hands-on experience with server-side web-based programming (PHP, Java, ASP, JSP, etc.)

· Hands-on experience with client-side coding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS2

· Understanding of software development principles

· Understanding of website analytics tools

· Ability to work in a fast paced, team environment

· Ability to concurrently multi-task across multiple assignments


Additional Relevant Experience (not Required, but a plus)



o Campaign setup

o Optimizing bids

o Statistical analysis

o Analysis of market trends & competition

o Reporting

· Experience in online marketing via paid search, affiliate marketing, banner advertising, SEO, etc.

· Experience with online marketing agencies

· Experience with other SEM, paid search platforms / technologies


Compensation:

Full-time salaried position with incentive performance component -- compensation dependent on prior experience. Position includes equity participation and comprehensive benefits (healthcare, vision and dental).

Required Travel: 10-25%