Community Evangelist Guelph, ON

BRAINPARK, INC is a software company that creates smart and simple software products to make work easier and people more productive. Our solution is a “mash-up” of social software, semantic web, eLearning, information retrieval, social search, and expertise location management. This next generation approach to enterprise software deals head on with information overload, user generated
preferences (meaning and relevancy), and a social context.

WHY THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Be part of a team of people who are aggressively innovative and pioneering in their thinking. Brainpark is not just about software development, they are about bringing people together to identify problems in the workplace and brainstorm solutions to solve them. You will have the opportunity to rub shoulders with a wide variety of people from many different industries. Brainpark offers a wide variety of initiatives and task that will keep you interested and on your toes, as well as flexible working hours. If you are an independent and self motivated worker, this job will appeal to you.

ROLE SUMMARY AND DETAILS
Success will require compelling communications skills, significant technical strength, strong credibility with customers immersed in the world of technical applications, and most importantly entrepreneurial energy to have a direct and positive impact on Brainpark’s application sales efforts.

RESPONSABILITIES
•    Gather the community through different forums to seek input for design and development of application
•    Promote the use of the application through talks, articles, blogs, demonstrations, etc.
•    Find ways to create a customer who is an evangelist for the application
•    Look for ways to maximize the delivery of service to the customer
•    Through speaking to the community, create new leads for sales team
•    Work with other departments within the company to make decisions regarding the user experience, technology, functionality, etc. of the application
•    Work with the company to aggressively grow the business
•    Establish strong relationships within the company in order to become an extension of the business into the external world
•    Act as subject matter expert and become the product’s internal and external evangelist.
•    Conduct research/evaluation on new areas for expansion
•    Act as part of the product design team, responsible for bringing back feedback and helping to develop strategy and insight to enable sales efforts across geographies and segments.
•    Help sales team to close sales through strong customer facing skills

REQUIREMENTS
•    Guiding force for the city’s tech community
•    Product marketing experience through a variety of forums
•    Tireless promoter
•    Strong public presentation skills
•    Creative and innovative in discovering actionable results and strategies
•    World-class content creation and communication skills - speaking, writing and PowerPoint
•    A high degree of comfort working with technology products
•    Demonstrated customer-facing skills
•    Compelling ability to communicate technical value propositions
•    Aggressive and energetic about setting high goals and achieving them
•    Ability to work closely with clients and peers to continually understand and anticipate their needs
•    Collaborative nature to enable success of sales team
Proven ability to lead and succeed in a collaborative, start-up paced environment
•    Located Guelph/Waterloo, Canada