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If you are looking to join an exciting start-up company with innovative products and an experienced team of smart individuals, this is it.

Electric Cloud offers exciting career challenges, a casual and fun work environment, competitive compensation, equity participation, a 401k program, and a full benefit package including medical, dental, vision, and more.

Open Positions

Product Manager

The Product Manager is responsible for the commercial success of one or more Electric Cloud products. The position reports to the Vice President of Marketing and will work closely with the sales and marketing organizations to identify, qualify and close sales opportunities. Additionally, the Product Manager will capture best practices from these sales campaigns to create strategies and tools to replicate success across the sales organization. He/she will also work with marketing and business development to evangelize the product through speaking opportunities, tradeshows, and partnerships. Finally, the Product Manager will provide input to the product development process by capturing and articulating customer requirements.

We are seeking candidates passionate about software development; ideally the candidate will have experience in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) market and in working directly with prospective customers as part of a sales team. This is an extraordinary opportunity to play a high-impact role in a fast-growing company with blue chip customers.

Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Develop and refine target markets and account identification
  • Work directly with account teams to develop and execute sales campaigns
  • Capture best practices and work closely with marketing and inside sales teams to create tools to help identify, qualify, and close sales opportunities
  • Lead go-to-market efforts for new markets
  • Evangelize solution value proposition and offerings at customer visits, sales training, seminars, and trade shows
  • Support sales via product training and customer presentations
  • Review and provide input for outbound product materials (data sheets, white papers, etc.)
  • Provide input to product roadmap efforts; help secure customer input and validation of product initiatives

Requirements:

  • Technical undergraduate degree highly desirable; MBA or equivalent is a plus
  • Minimum of 3 years of software product management/marketing experience
  • Passionate about success of the product
  • Strong cross functional team leader. Ability to interface effectively with sales, business development, development, marketing and QA
  • Excellent presentation and customer facing skills

 

Sales Engineers (multiple locations)

We are looking for bright, energetic, highly-motivated individuals with outstanding technical skills to join our field sales team. You will be working directly with account executives to qualify and position Electric Cloud solutions to solve complex software build and release problems for prospective customers. You will also work directly with engineers (both ours and our customers') to manage and implement trial deployments on site. You will be expected to:

  • Quickly understand new developer tools, technologies, and platforms and integrate them with our products
  • Identify, isolate and resolve complicated performance and correctness issues
  • Coordinate work across large teams and organizations to deliver working, scalable solutions on tight schedules

This position requires:

  • Significant past experience as a developer or build/SCM administrator
  • Good working knowledge of scripting languages (eg, Perl)
  • Familiarity with C/C++ and build tools like GNU Make and Visual Studio
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

The ideal candidate will also have experience as a Sales/System Engineer selling tools to software developers. Outstanding communication, problem-solving and organizational skills will be necessary to be successful in this position. Significant travel (50%) is expected.

 

Field Sales Representatives - Southeast U.S.

This is your opportunity to use your skills to sell a product that makes a significant difference in your customer's work life. The ideal candidate will have experience generating new sales opportunities, selling enterprise software solutions at all levels of an organization, and of course, closing the sale. Other responsibilities include demonstrating the product to prospects and partners, keeping up-to-date knowledge of the industry, as well as the competitive posture of the company, and preparing activity and forecast reports, as requested.

This position requires a minimum of 5 years of outside sales experience in software development applications, with a majority of those years selling to enterprise organizations. Direct experience with the software development process is a must. As BS/BA is required.

 

Support Engineer

Electric Cloud is looking for a talented and ambitious software developer to join our high-powered team. In this position you will join the Electric Cloud team as a support engineer for our ElectricAccelerator product. This product is used by software developers, so our support engineers need to fully understand the process of building software and have strong technical skills. We find that developers make the best support engineers for our products because they understand the structure of software builds including Make, dependencies, libraries, platform differences, caching algorithms, networking, and concepts in parallel computing. This position will expose you to some of the largest, most complicated software projects in the world; you will work directly with key build and release engineers at other companies to diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems over a very wide range of tools and technologies.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to play a high-impact role in a fast-paced project working with exciting technologies and top-notch software engineers. You will need to learn a lot in a short amount of time and you will change roles rapidly in response to our customers' needs. You will be reading source code and working directly with developers to help implement solutions and new features for our customers.

Requirements:

  • Must be comfortable working both independently and in a group to support our customers
  • Must demonstrate your love for programming and for producing high quality software
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential
  • A BA/BS in Computer Science is required

 

Perl/C Engineer

To build and maintain features of the Commander software which extend our product's capabilities, stability, performance and ease of use. These features include development and maintenance of core tools, maintenance and extension of the Commander agent ports (to solaris, hp-ux, etc) and the maintenance and integration of various tools through perl and C APIs. To apply for this position, please send resume and cover letter to: job-124@electric-cloud.com

Essential Functions:

  • Maintains, extends and enhances tools, procedures and features to ensure that software is functional, robust, reliable and supportable.
  • Develops and implements unit and system test scripts and tests the quality of software produced.
  • Is proficient in the Perl scripting language and can demonstrate such proficiency through the regular production of features and enhancements to our product.
  • Is proficient in the C or C++ programming language and is familiar with supporting tools such as gcc, gmake, autoconf on unix platforms.
  • Makes recommendations and designs of software features and enhancements that improves the overall experience for our users and contributes to our product success.
  • Makes recommendations of ways to improve the internal management of tools, scripts and processes.
  • Is able to write portable code that will execute on multiple platforms.
  • Is responsible for working independently and manage competing priorities.
  • Reviews quality trends, tracks the root cause of problems, and coordinates correction actions whenever issues are encountered.
  • Integrates lessons learned from resolutions of quality issues back into the the product.

Requirements:

  • Four-year degree in Computer Science or related field with very technical grasp on fine details of computer science.
  • Effective human relations skills, including good listening ability and the capability to convince others to establish or change precedents.
  • Strong work ethic. Feels a strong sense of ownership of previous projects and the final outcome of their personal contribution.
  • Effective written communication skills including the ability to generate documentation and reports.
  • Critical Thinker. Ability to abstract available data, analyze complex problems, and form solutions.

 

Installer Engineer

To build and maintain automation tools for Electric Cloud software products to ensure that customer installations are reliable, supportable and simple. To provide leadership in overall approach for development and implementation of installation and upgrades and any related installation activity. To apply for this position, send resume and cover letter to: Job-123@electric-cloud.com

Essential Functions:

  • Maintains, extends and enhances tools, procedures and documents to ensure that software installations and upgrades are simple, reliable and supportable.
  • Develops and implements scripts and tests to ensure that installation and upgrade processes conform with industry best practices.
  • Makes recommendations of ways to improve the installation and upgrade experience for our users.
  • Makes recommendations of ways to improve the internal management of installation and upgrade tools, scripts and processes.
  • Is able to build scripts and tools that work in Windows and Linux environments with maximal code re-use. These tools may be related to installation or in support of other tools in the product.
  • Is responsible for working independantly, amongst product teams and manage competing priorities.
  • Reviews quality trends, tracks the root cause of problems, and coordinates correction actions whenever issues are encountered with installations and upgrades
  • Integrates lessons learned from resolutions of quality issues back into the the product.

Requirements:

  • Four-year degree in Computer Science or related field with very technical grasp on fine details of computer science.
  • Effective human relations skills, including good listening ability and the capability to convince others to establish or change precedents.
  • Effective written communication skills including the ability to generate documentation and reports.
  • Familiarity with various scripting languages such as Bourne Shell, Perl, and MS Bat files.
  • Familiarity with installer platforms such as “Installshield” but has also written installers that execute on the unix command line.
  • Familiarity with Windows and Unix environments

Electric Cloud, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Notice: Electric Cloud does not accept applications from recruiting agencies or specialized search firms. Payment of fees will not be considered for any unsolicited resumes forwarded to Electric Cloud. If you would like to send us your information for future reference, you may do so by sending it to careers@electric-cloud.com. We appreciate your cooperation.

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