Solutions Engineer Higher Education
Solutions Engineer Higher Education
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About this Role:
As aD2LSolutions Engineer youll spend every day helping those around you get the most out of D2L products and services. Youll helpD2L clientsand educatorsby learning about their unique needs and proposing solutions including D2L products and services to meet those needs. Your passion for teaching and learning makes people want toopen upto you and your expertise in learning technology and how to accomplish nearly anything using the D2L platform makes you a trusted advisor. Youre excited to speak to everyone from students and instructors to a CIO Professors Vice Chancellors or Chancellors and your demos and presentations provoke gasps of amazement if not outright applause.
How Youll Make an Impact:
- Become a handson expert in the Brightspace platform. You wont just need theoretical knowledge of how things work but you will be expected to try things out and make sure they work in practice. You will need to get creative and sometimes approach and reapproach a solution until you find the right fit.
- Support the sales process by becoming an expert in D2L products and services including functionality usage architecture and deployment.
- Prepare and present persuasive and expertly tailored product demonstrations before a wide variety of audiences and under challenging circumstances. Audiences could be new or seasoned users executives at a conference table university faculty in a lecture theatre or HR and L&D professionals piled into stadium seating. Needs could be vague or extremely unique and timelines to prepare can vary.
- Build compelling valueoriented presentations while partnering with your sales team to prep for such presentations.
- Conduct needs analysis sessions with prospects to understand their infrastructure needs and potentialcustomizationsthey may require.
- Provide feedback to product management teams regarding use cases and trends in the field.
- Create technical documentation and materials as for your prospects.
- Be the conduit through which internal SMEs are contacted and engaged into sales opportunities.
- Attend sales presentations meetings and conferences as (travel 2550 and be willing to work various hours across North America from PST to EST.
- Engaging in proposal writing review client requirements identify optimal product mix address gaps and assessing competitive alignment and culminating in the creation of clear concise responses.
What Youll Bring to the Role:
- 3 years experience as a Brightspace user either as an administrator or an instructor having used the platform extensively.
- Experiencein a higher education institution in an edtech role will be advantageous.
- Comfort with other learning management systems and other learning platforms that might integrate with the LMS.
- Have a deep interest in education and educational technology including familiarity with technology ecosystem and the LMS.
- Must be very comfortable with presenting complex education and technology concepts to a variety of stakeholders.
- Be highly engaging in person and virtually.
- Must have excellent writing and comprehension skills.
- Beable to work remotely in a professional manner.
- Experience meeting multiple objectives in an entrepreneurial environment with minimal supervision.
- Attend sales presentations meetings and conferences as (travel 2550 and be willing to work various hours across North America from PST to EST.
Employment Type
Full Time
