SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

SmartRecruiters was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Employers in 2020. We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.

The SmartRecruiters Demo Innovation Director will mentor and grow a newly formed team of Demo Engineers, Technical Demo Engineers, and RFP Specialists with a philosophy of servant leadership. Your team is responsible for supporting a global team of solution consultants enabling them to tell an outcome-based story by creating and maintaining assets utilized in the field.

What you'll deliver:

• Identify, recruit, and onboard pre-sales professionals who will be successful in the Demo Engineer, Technical Demo Engineer, and RFP Specialist roles

• Implement team operating rhythm and meeting cadence as channels for training, information sharing, and building team culture

• Lead your team with a servant-style of leadership, modeling the appropriate values and behaviors that make team members successful

• Lead a team that creates and maintains demo assets which include

  • Demo Datasets

  • Demo Stories

  • Demo Scripts

  • Demo and POC environments

  • Create in field integrations with marketplace partners for demos

  • Create and maintain analytical reports and dashboards

• Be a conduit into product management to enable the following motions

  • Release readiness

  • Pre-sales GTM bill of materials

  • Product roadmap certification

  • Product feedback

• Work with other Pre-Sales Solution Consultant leaders to manage pre-sales alignment and support go-to-market activities

• Work with product management, product marketing, and other organizations on cross-functional go-to-market initiatives

• Keep current on industry trends and competition

• Collaborate with other pre-sales leaders and sales enablement to develop enablement content for pre-sales continuous learning and improvement

• Understand industry verticals, department verticals, and challenges facing specific buyer personas with SmartRecruiters’s target market and coach your team on industry-specific value propositions

• Minimum of 7 years experience leading pre-sales innovation teams

• Strong organizational skills

• Emotional intelligence; ability to relate to those you lead

• A proven change agent

• Ability to successfully lead strategic projects

• Ability to understand a track critical metrics and monitor team performance

• Professional courage to challenge assumptions, propose solutions, and push teams to execute in a disciplined, but creative manner

• Experience in process creation and operational execution

• Experience working in a program and project environment

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.