GoodData is hiring!
Below is a list of our current job openings – please email us if you are interested in learning about working at GoodData or respond directly to the job postings below.
Our current job openings:
- Account Executive – San Francisco
- Senior Sales Engineer- San Francisco
- Product Marketing Manager – San Francisco
- Senior SW Engineer – Java and Spring – Czech Republic
- Senior SW Engineer – Data Visualization – Czech Republic
We are recruiting in other areas as well so please let us know if you’re interested.
Account Executive (email)
GoodData is looking for a solid Account Executive to join our San Francisco sales team and focus on our customer acquisition effort. Successful candidate will have experience selling enterprise database or BI software in a SaaS environment.
Skills
Success in the position will require the following characteristics:
- Drive – You are a highly driven individual who understands what it takes to sell in a small company hands-on work environment. You are both self sufficient and able to attract and coordinate company resources in specific sales situations. You have hit your quota consistently and have not changed jobs every 18 months.
- SaaS Experience – you understand the SaaS sales model and are comfortable closing business over the phone. You understand the difference between building an effective business relationship and “wining and dining” the customer. A background that includes salesforce.com or NetSuite is a benefit.
- Communication Skills – You have great verbal and written communication skills. You are used to using these skills to persuade customers of the value of what you sell and to keep the internal team up-to-speed so that they can fully support and learn from your selling efforts.
- Situational Fluency – You are naturally curious and very comfortable talking about both technology and business. In particular you have a solid understanding of business intelligence and analytics. In addition you understand the sales reporting function and how sales executives can use information to improve top line results. You are also familiar with Salesforce.com and how it is used in a corporate process-centric sales organization.
- Intelligence – Cloud BI is an emerging marketing category and GoodData is already positioned as an early leader in this market space. Transforming this early leadership position into repeatable sales results will require someone with the “smarts” to provide creative solutions to the selling challenges typical in an early stage environment.
In additional to these characteristics successful candidate will also have:
- 5+ years of sales success and over quota performance
- Excellent customer references
- “Solution Selling” or related sales methodology experience
- An understanding and commitment to using CRM systems as an important business tool.
- A strong commitment to customer success as the backbone of a company’s brand.
Senior Sales Engineer (email)
GoodData is seeking a seasoned Sales Engineer to help build a pre-sales practice and to join our growing organization. We are looking for a top technical sales professional who enjoys bringing great technology to customers solving real business problems and winning business.
The Sales Engineer will be responsible for all technical sales support activities including preparing and delivering compelling product demonstrations delivering proof of concepts working with our professional services team acting as the customer interface on customer trials and supporting the selling process. In addition to working hand-ons with customers the ideal candidate will have the experience and sales savvy to help define and implement a repeatable sales process. Experience leading projects managing team members and helping to grow an organization is a plus.
We are looking for a candidate with relevant software technical sales experience that includes two key components:
- Direct experience working with cloud or SaaS applications including experience with Salesforce.com
- A strong background in business intelligence reporting analytics ETL processes and data transformation.
Additional requirements include:
- Technical fluency in query languages (SQL etc) and scripting languages (Perl Python etc.)
- Experience working with cross-cultural multi-national teams
- A proven track record of excellence in a fast paced sales environment
- Experience managing others in an SE organization or on complex software implementations
- Ability to both communicate and teach key technical concepts to both business users and BI developers.
The ideal candidate will have a history of managing complex projects or leading a team of sales engineers. Success in this position will require excellent communication skills the intelligence and flexibility to work in an early stage start-up environment and the creativity and drive to help us remake the BI Industry.
Product Marketing Manager (email)
We are seeking a passionate product marketer who believes that every company needs analytics; a marketer who wants to break through the failures of two decades of business intelligence analytics dashboards and reporting and deliver something truly disruptive. The right product marketer wakes up in the morning with a desire to better and better explain the concepts customer stories and business benefits of using cloud business intelligence in engaging easy-to-understand language and formats. This means videos web content creative use of GoodData itself – and not more got-to-market worksheets and boring slide decks.
Job Responsibilities:
- Role-based marketing: Understand the drivers behind customer purchase behavior and adoption of reporting and analytics
- Go-to-market planning: Create go-to-market messages that connect GoodData to the right audiences and markets
- Content Creation: Write blogs case studies web content video demos etc.
- Sales and Partner Support: Enable sales to clearly communicate and demonstrate the value of GoodData
- Storytelling: Turn our successful customers into heroes; turn our product into something everyone can understand
Skills
- Startup DNA is critical
- A belief that analytics are for everyone not just for the stats geeks or executives who run businesses
- “Web 2.0-style” communications style
- Technically curious but business oriented
- 3+ years of product marketing experience ideally in a high-velocity b2b setting
- Business Intelligence CRM or SaaS experience a big plus
Senior SW Engineer – Java and Spring (email)
GoodData is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Web Applications team in Brno Czech Republic. As a company GoodData has passed the stage when we were solely focussed on nursing our core assets like the GoodData Analytical Engine and the cloud-born GoodData Platform. With the growing maturity of our products and services we are expanding our team dedicated to the end-user application-level features like Collaboration Workflow Management data-driven Alerting Notifications and interactive Dashboards. We are seeking an experienced professional who not only feels at home in Java/Spring development environment but who is also proficient at architecting and designing distributed software using agile methodology.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and implementation of Java-based web application server components (using Spring 3.0)
- Functional/technical requirements gathering and functional/technical analysis
- Strong contribution to the architecture and design expected
- Cross-team communication (ROLAP engine WebApp UI/UX front-end)
- UML modeling (MagicDraw) and technical documentation
Education
- MSc. in Computer Science
Skills
- Fluent written English is a must good spoken English is an advantage
- 2+ years work experience in Java
- Expertise in Spring Hibernate and Java frameworks/technologies in general
- Experience with enterprise application design patterns
- Experience with UML is an advantage
- Experience with distributed applications development is an advantage
- Interest and a broader technology landscape (Perl Python Ruby Erlang …)
Location
- Brno Czech Republic
Terms and Conditions
- send your job applications directly to jobs@gooddata.com cite the exact position title in the subject
- we reserve the right to withdraw this job offer at any time even if the position remains unfilled
- Round 1: March 15 – April 15 2010 – (1) this job offer is only valid for individuals we do not accept offers from personal agencies and head hunters in this initial period; (2) all applications received will be treated as friendly referrals and GoodData is not liable to pay any fees upon accepting such applications
- Round 2: starting April 16 2010 (1) this job offer becomes open to all applications; (2) GoodData is happy to negotiate referral fees with head hunters and personal agencies – business as usual
Senior SW Engineer – Data Visualization (email)
GoodData is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Visualization Components team in Prague Czech Republic. At GoodData we believe that power of smart visual presentation is the key allowing to unlock the door of multi-dimensional analysis to wide audience of casual business users. That’s why more than a year ago we made the strategic decision to develop our own visualization engine. Now we are taking this initiative to the next level (Are you Neo or Steve Ballmer?) and we are advancing beoynd the Excel-like charting we had to develop to get the basics covered. We are seeking a key team member being able to push the limits of impossible and drive further advances in domain of visual data representation.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and implementation of GoodData Data Visualization Components
- Design and implementation of data bindings (binding the GoodData Analytical Engine data structures to the Visualization Components)
- Occasional front-end web application development (http://www.gooddata.com)
- Leading pro-active cross-team communication (between cities and areas of responsibility)
- UML modeling (MagicDraw) and technical documentation writing
Education
- MSc. in Computer Science
Skills
- Excellent data structures / data processing knowledge is an essential prerequisite
- Keen interest and passion for visualisation and data processing is required
- Fluent written English is a must good spoken English is an advantage
- Computer graphics experience is an advantage
- Experience with UML is an advantage
- Experience with distributed applications development is an advantage
Location
- Prague Czech Republic
Terms and Conditions
- send your job applications directly to jobs@gooddata.com cite the exact position title in the subject
- we reserve the right to withdraw this job offer at any time even if the position remains unfilled
- Round 1: March 15 – April 15 2010 (1) this job offer is only valid for individuals we do not accept offers from personal agencies and head hunters in this initial period; (2) all applications received will be treated as friendly referrals and GoodData is not liable to pay any fees upon accepting such applications
- Round 2: starting April 16 2010 (1) this job offer becomes open to all applications; (2) GoodData is happy to negotiate referral fees with head hunters and personal agencies – business as usual