Vertica

Engineering

Technical Support Engineer

Vertica is looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to join our premier support team. Our customers deserve expert advice in resolving issues. A qualified candidate will be a quick study, pay close attention to detail and passionate about helping others. This person will interact with sales, engineering, and other groups within the organization. You should be comfortable in a small company environment, interfacing directly with customers in the field, on the phone, via e-mail and chat.
Key responsibilities include:

• Working with customers and field engineers to resolve customer support requests.
• Assisting with post-sale, customer support for designing, transforming, loading, and querying in the Vertica Database.
• Modifying and verifying schemas, SQL statements, and load or query scripts.
• Managing multiple accounts and caseloads simultaneously, while also determining and managing priorities.
• Coordinating cases and responses with the required specialists within Vertica.
• Utilize and contribute to Vertica’s support request and tracking system
• Communicating product feature requests from customers to Product Management.
• Writing solutions for customer problems and trouble-shooting tips to enhance knowledge base.

Qualified candidates must have:

• Linux skills, scripting experience, and extensive knowledge of SQL.
• An attention to detail and acute listening skills.
• The ability to resolve and communicate complex issues in a straightforward manner.
• At least 3-4 years of professional experience working with a relational database.
• A good understanding of relational database systems including theory, design, and structure.
• A passion for customer support, hard work, and resolving problems.
• Experience in customer support or customer-facing projects.

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Systems Engineers – Major Cities Worldwide

As a System Engineer, your job will include technical pre-sales support with sales/product presentations, positioning and driving proof of concept evaluations. You will also have the ability to help shape the direction of the product through your customer interactions working with product management, engineering and other teams in the organization in a dynamic startup-like environment.

Responsibilities:

• Sales and technical product presentations and positioning to customers.
• Understanding and articulating technical problems addressed by the product including business drivers and competitive differentiators.
• Product demonstrations, installations and feature walkthroughs.
• Driving proof of concepts as part of the sales cycle.
• Providing new feature and product gap feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
• Understanding and articulating product roadmap, current product features, application use cases, and best practices.
• Performing scalability, high availability, migration and consolidation services.

Skill Set:

• 5+ years of pre-sales experience.
• In-depth knowledge of database systems and concepts.
• Strong experience with performance optimization and tuning with database applications on a RDBMS system.
• Strong SQL, programming skills.
• Experience using Linux.
• Scripting skills (Perl, Python, shell).
• The ability to work well with aggressive deadlines and minimal supervision.
• The ability to communicate technical scenarios at both a high-level and a detailed level.
• Experience with ETL, reporting and monitoring tools is a plus.

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Director of Software Engineering, Database Server

Vertica, an HP company, seeks dynamic and results-oriented leaders to lead the development of its flagship Analytic Database product.  Vertica’s development teams consist of extraordinarily skilled developers who have a passion for getting things done.  If you are an engineering manager who thrives in hiring, managing and motivating such high performance development teams in a dynamic, high-pressure environment, then this is the job for you.

 

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee the software development and delivery of multiple components within the Vertica Analytic Database product.
• Recruit top-notch talent for the development team, manage growth and scale the organization and development processes as needed, through periods of rapid growth.
• Must be comfortable running an organization of 50-100 developers in a fluid startup-like environment.
• Performance management, mentoring and career development of developers and tech leads.
• Interface cross-functionally with Product Management, Technical Support, Quality Assurance Documentation and Release Management. Interact with customers and sales engineering as needed.

An ideal candidate must have:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (Master’s preferred) with at least 10 years of experience in software development and technical management.
• Experience managing software development of complex systems software such as File systems, Operating Systems, Databases, Networking systems or similar products.
• Strong project management skills in an iterative development model.
• Must be technically savvy about Linux and C/C++ Systems Software and can quickly establish credibility and rapport with sharp developers.
• Proven track record of execution and results in a fluid, fast-paced, startup environment.
• Strive to maintain and enhance Vertica’s culture of high standards and “getting things done” with a sense of urgency and high quality.

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Ecosystem Integration Engineer

Vertica is a dynamic company offering opportunities limited only by your capabilities and desire to succeed. We’re looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to lead and contribute to our Third Party Products and Ecosystem Integration group. If you enjoy getting a broad variety of products to work together seamlessly this is the job for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing and executing a testing and certification process for third-party products with the Vertica Analytic Database.
• Working with technical support and field teams to understand how different third-party products, such as BI/ETL tools are used by our customers.
• Working with development and product management to identify gaps in the integration and recommend features / solutions to fill the gaps.
• Working with technical resources at the third-party product vendor to resolve any issues with their product.
• Creating, maintaining and executing automated certification test suites to demonstrate functionality and performance of the integration.
• Provide in-house expertise, consulting and training on various integrations.

To succeed in this job, you must be comfortable and thrive in a fast-paced small company environment. You must demonstrate excellent organizational, analytical and communication (written and verbal) skills.  There will be a lot of multi-tasking as you will be learning, testing and analyzing a broad variety of products for functionality and performance.

To apply, you must meet the following technical qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Field experience working with at least one BI Reporting / ETL tool such as Business Objects, Microstrategy, Cognos, Informatica, Datastage, AbInitio, Microsoft SSRS/SSAS, etc.
• Database application development experience using standard SQL, JDBC, ODBC or ADO.NET interfaces.
• Experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Scripting and automation skills in a language such as Perl or Python.

Experience in any of the following areas would be a plus:

• Designing applications involving analytics over large volumes of data.
• Designing end-to-end business solutions around database products.
• Working knowledge of database internals and tuning.

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Software Engineer – Client Drivers

Vertica is a next-generation analytic database that offers extremely high performance and rich functionality at low cost. Vertica supports standards-compliant interfaces (e.g. SQL, ODBC, JDBC) to be seamlessly integrated into the Business Intelligence (BI) Ecosystem, working with a large suite of BI tools including Informatica, Microstrategy, Tableau, etc.

As part of the team, you will build reliable and high-performance connectivity software, be exposed to a wide variety of BI products, and gain a comprehensive understanding of the BI Ecosystem. If you enjoy working in a fast-pace startup environment with a distinguished business and technology outlook, learning and applying solid software engineering practices to building industrial-strength software components as part of a high-caliber development team, this is the role for you.

Key responsibilities include:

• Creating client software for the Vertica Analytic Database, including ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET drivers, and BI tools integration connectors.
• Developing client-side algorithms and optimizations for interaction with multi-node, multi-terabyte database systems.
• Analyzing and tuning the performance of the above products on a wide spectrum of platforms, such as UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.

Qualified candidates must have:

• A Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering.
• A Masters or PhD with an emphasis on Databases or Systems is a strong plus.
• A passion for building high-quality, innovative software with huge business impact.
• Expert knowledge of at least one of the following: C++ or Java.
• Excellent software engineering skills.

Experience in any of the following is highly desirable:

• Database drivers (ODBC, JDBC, or ADO.NET), connectors or middleware software
• Knowledge of SQL, database internals and performance tuning
• Third-party BI and ETL tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, and MicroStrategy
• .NET Framework and MS SQLServer ecosystem
• TCP/IP and client-server protocol and socket programming

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Software Engineer – UI Testing

Vertica is a dynamic company offering opportunities limited only by your capabilities and desire to succeed. We’re looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to join our software testing group. A qualified candidate will be a quick study, pay close attention to details and passionate about finding issues. This person will work closely with the development team and the field teams to understand the details of the product implementation and how customers use the product. Candidates must be comfortable working in a small fast paced company environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Working with developers to understand how the product is intended to work, and the nuances of the implementation
• Coordinating with technical support and field teams to understand how the product is really used by the customers
• Creating test plans based on the product design and customer deployments.
• Writing easy to maintain, extendable, automated tests framework to test the UI

Qualifications

• Experience working in Linux/Windows environments
• Extensive experience setting up test frameworks using Selenium, Watir or other open source UI test framework
• Scripting experience in any of the scripting languages (Perl/Python/Shell/Ruby)
• An understanding of relational database systems schema creation, monitoring and maintenance
• A passion for digging through the details, hard work, and improving quality

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Software Engineer – Performance Testing

Vertica is a dynamic company offering opportunities limited only by your capabilities and desire to succeed. We’re looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to join our software testing group. A qualified candidate will be a quick study, pay close attention to details and passionate about finding issues.

This person will work closely with the development team and the field teams to understand the details of the product implementation and how customers use the product. Candidates must be comfortable working in a small fast paced company environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Working with developers to understand how the product is intended to work, and the nuances of the implementation
• Coordinating with technical support and field teams to understand how the product is really used by the customers
• Writing easy to maintain, extendable, automated tests to measure performance of SQL queries, concurrency benchmarks

Qualifications

• Experience working in Linux environments
• Extensive knowledge of SQL
• Extensive scripting experience in any of the scripting languages (Perl/Python/Shell)
• Knowledge of programming language like C++ – knowledge of Java is a plus
• An understanding of relational database systems including theory, design, and structure
• A passion for digging through the details, hard work, and improving quality

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Software Engineer

Vertica seeks a Software Engineer in Cambridge, MA to design and develop database query optimization algorithms, identify performance problems and improve algorithms. Design, develop and implement techniques for optimization to improve plan run times. Develop and document intellectual property focusing on patenting. Gather and determine requirements for new features. Research and identify applicable state-of-the-art algorithms and techniques in databases, analyze their applicability, and perform cost-benefit analysis.
Education and/or Training:

• Master’s degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or related academic field.
• Alternatively, the Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or related plus five (5) years of progressive experience in the Job Offered, Programmer Analyst, Research Assistant, or similar IT position

Knowledge and Experience:

• Distributed query optimization algorithms
• Database operation algorithms
• Data structures
• Analysis and improvement of time complexity of algorithms
• C, C++ and multi-threaded programming

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Windows/Linux Systems Software Engineer

Are you ready to join a software company with incredible growth potential which will undoubtedly have a huge impact in the industry and bring the best out of you?

We are a team of smart and highly motivated individuals who enjoy interesting, hard core technical challenges, building cool technology to solve real customer problems and having fun doing it! We have a challenging, fast‐paced work environment where you can make a difference. We are located in Cambridge, MA, in the heart of Boston’s high tech corridor. If you think you fit the bill and want to join us living the dream, write to us.
This is a broad role with responsibilities including:

• Create libraries to enable Vertica Analytics Platform software to be ported across various platforms including Solaris, Windows and other flavors of Unix
• Develop tools and automation infrastructure for long term maintainability of the software across multiple platforms
• Measure and tune performance of the software across multiple platforms
• Enhance features and functions of the Vertica Analytics Platform product

A qualified candidate must:

• have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• have significant experience in object‐oriented systems design • be fluent in C/C++
• have intimate knowledge of tools, systems programming APIs and behavioral differences across multiple OS platforms, particularly Windows and Linux/Unix (Win32, Posix, etc.)

Experience in any of the following is highly desirable:

• porting large complex system software across multiple platforms
• writing cross‐platform OS libraries and cross‐platform build environments
• database internals (query execution, query optimization, etc.)
• distributed systems, parallel / cluster software • highly scalable and highly available systems
• performance tuning and benchmarking • designing software for modern hardware architecture
• advanced algorithms for compression, encryption, etc.

Our culture welcomes and supports software developers who:

• work hard and work smart
• love to write high‐quality and maintainable code
• are creative about solving problems
• able to learn fast and eager to contribute
• excited to be part of high‐caliber team
• enjoy working directly with customers

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Software Engineer – Testing

Vertica is looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to join our software testing group. A qualified candidate will be a quick study, pays close attention to details and passionate about finding issues. This person will work closely with the development team and the field teams to understand the details of the product implementation and how customers use the product. Candidates must be comfortable working in a small fast paced company environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with developers to understand how the product is intended to work, and the nuances ofthe implementation.
• Coordinating with technical support and field teams to understand how the product is really usedby the customers.
• Creating test plans based on the product design and customer deployments.
• Writing easy to maintain, extendable, system level automated tests that can be run 24×7

Qualified Candidates Must Have:

• Experience working in Linux environment.
• Extensive scripting experience in any of the scripting languages (Perl/Python/Shell).
• Knowledge of programming language like C++ – knowledge of Java is a plus.
• A good knowledge of SQL.
• An understanding of relational database systems including theory, design, and structure.
• A passion for digging through the details, hard work, and improving designs.

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Implementation Engineer

Vertica is a dynamic company offering opportunities limited only by your capabilities and desire to succeed. We’re looking for creative Services Engineers to help our customers succeed. Our services team is integral in coming up with ways to help our customers deploy, manage and maintain the Vertica Analytic Database.

An ideal candidate is well versed in SQL, familiar with mainstream RDBMSs such as Oracle, DB2 and MySQL and has some programming or scripting experience in C++, Python, Perl and Shell. Knowledge of Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian) and VMware is a plus. Your job will include technical account management, pre-sales support and working on proof of concepts while interacting with sales, engineering and other teams in the organization. You must be comfortable in a startup environment, interfacing directly with customers in the field, on the phone and via IM and e-mail.
Background and Skills

• At least 5 years of enterprise database administration and SQL development experience.
• Strong experience with performance optimization and tuning with database applications on a RDBMS system is a MUST.
• Strong SQL, programming and/or scripting skill is a MUST.
• Experience with ETL, reporting and monitoring tools is a plus.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is required; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Be a mature and confident team player motivated by a fast paced environment.
• Must be able to work well with aggressive deadlines and minimal supervision.
• Must be able to communicate technical scenarios at both a high-level and detail level, as is required by the audience.
• The position includes some amount of travel (25-30%).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with Vertica customers performing scalability, high availability, migration and consolidation services on Vertica Server platform as an implementation engineer.
• Design and implement database administration solutions including performance monitoring and tuning, data management and capacity planning, implementing DR/failover, resource management, security, backup and recovery, etc.
• Design and implement scripts for ETL process, instance monitoring and maintenance, etc.
• Design, write and deliver onsite training materials and presentations.

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Technical Trainer

Vertica is looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to join our technical training team. A qualified candidate will be comfortable providing technical training to a variety of audiences as well as able to continually incorporate feedback to strengthen on training program.   This person will interact across the entire organization to build a world class online and onsite training experience.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivers technical training programs and supporting materials using appropriate training methods, multimedia and course/​curriculum materials
• Work with customers, systems integrators, support engineers, and sales teams to identify training requirements.
• Participates in the design, development, and/​or updating of training programs and supporting materials such as training guides, laboratory exercises, exams, and other handouts consistent with product updates and releases.​
• Presents training programs at customer, company or field locations.​
• Maintains records of training programs and user progress as well as feedback on training effectiveness.​
• Coordinates scheduling and logistics of training sessions.​  Maintains records of training programs as well as user feedback on training effectiveness
• May support other departments with insight gained from customer interactions.​

Qualified candidates must have:

• Proficient Knowledge of Relational Databases (MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.) with at least 5 years of hands-on enterprise database administration and SQL development experience.
• At least 2 years of proven ability to understand and deliver highly technical training to large audiences.
• Must be able to write clear, understandable curriculum about highly technical subjects.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of RDBMS on a Unix/Linux environment including installation, configuration, creating table spaces, and basic administration.
• Strong SQL skills are a MUST.
• Experience with ETL, reporting and monitoring tools is a plus.
• Good command of standard curriculum tools, including PowerPoint and Word.  Familiarity with source control tools a plus.

The position includes a moderate amount of travel (30-50%) and may include international travel.

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Database and System Performance Engineer

Vertica is a dynamic company offering opportunities limited only by your capabilities and desire to succeed. We’re looking for highly skilled and well-organized individuals to join the Vertica Performance Lab. This person will help to develop the methodology and tools for Vertica performance and scalability characterization across supported hardware and virtualized platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the performance and scalability characterization methodology, key metrics, tools, and information base
• Design and develop an analysis suite for measuring performance of system’s workloads
• Conduct evaluations of hardware and virtualized platforms, build and maintain a searchable info base of findings
• Determine optimum configurations of frequently used hardware platforms
• Provide best practices and hardware selection/sizing and capacity planning
• Work with hardware divisions, provide input/requirements for new hardware designs, conduct evaluations of new hardware

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• In-depth knowledge in one or more of the following domains is highly desirable:
  • System resource management and performance analysis
  • Linux internals and various file systems
  • Utilities and tools used for system monitoring, profiling and diagnostics
  • Relational database experience, ability to tune database performance
  • MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) computing
  • Distributed data management
• Experience with system programming and development in languages such as C, Python, shell scripting
• Knowledge of standard statistical techniques used for performance characterization
• Excellent organizational, analytical and communication (written and verbal) skills are necessary to succeed in this job
• Experimental / research background is a plus
• Prior IT experience with hardware sizing and capacity planning is a plus
• Tangible knowledge of specific aspects of the big data management domain is a plus

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Desktop System Administrator

This position will be responsible for supporting, and maintaining our distributed Linux and Windows client infrastructure. This person will support our Linux and Windows client infrastructure as well as anticipate future systems needs and proactively identify solutions to satisfy these needs. They will help maintain and deploy our Windows and Linux clients and resolve escalated issues as necessary. They will help with backend system projects and must have the desire and ability to learn the backend infrastructure. This is a hands-on position requiring strong technical skills and the ability to multi-task. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong customer-service savvy and history of working in a Windows and Linux based engineering environment. Creativity, enthusiasm and energy combined with an attention to detail are necessary for success.

PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES

Leadership

• Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change
• Manages the process of innovative change effectively
• Pro-actively support our end user community

Teamwork

• Effectively work with others in a team environment
• Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members
• Must have strong communication skills and good customer service skills

Client Service

• Manages day-to-day Windows and client issues
• Delivers upon client and IT expectations
• Communicates effectively with management of client needs and possible alternative solutions
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase internal client satisfaction and deepen client relationships

ROLE-SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Technical Expertise

• Must have expert knowledge windows 7 and Microsoft client technologies
• Must have experience remote access technologies
• Must have basic understanding of Linux and Linux used as a client
• Must have an understanding of networking and general client to server communication

Client Systems Management

• Administration and maintenance of all client systems and some servers
• Assist in the planning and implementation of IT additions, deletions and modifications
• Maintain existing client systems on a day to day basis
• Strong asset management and purchasing a plus

Engineering and Lab Systems

• Help maintain QA, Engineering and Test environments.
• Help support production backend systems.
• Works with IT management and project teams to help support Internal Systems

Linux and Windows Client Administration

• Support of a distributed Linux and windows workforce (globally)
• Responds to help desk issues
• Interacts with internal clients on all levels to help resolve IT-related issues and provides answers in a timely manner

Communication

• Effectively communicates information to superiors
• Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
• Must have strong documentation skills

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Management

Director of Software Engineering, Database Server

Vertica, an HP company, seeks dynamic and results-oriented leaders to lead the development of its flagship Analytic Database product.  Vertica’s development teams consist of extraordinarily skilled developers who have a passion for getting things done.  If you are an engineering manager who thrives in hiring, managing and motivating such high performance development teams in a dynamic, high-pressure environment, then this is the job for you.

 

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee the software development and delivery of multiple components within the Vertica Analytic Database product.
• Recruit top-notch talent for the development team, manage growth and scale the organization and development processes as needed, through periods of rapid growth.
• Must be comfortable running an organization of 50-100 developers in a fluid startup-like environment.
• Performance management, mentoring and career development of developers and tech leads.
• Interface cross-functionally with Product Management, Technical Support, Quality Assurance Documentation and Release Management. Interact with customers and sales engineering as needed.

An ideal candidate must have:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (Master’s preferred) with at least 10 years of experience in software development and technical management.
• Experience managing software development of complex systems software such as File systems, Operating Systems, Databases, Networking systems or similar products.
• Strong project management skills in an iterative development model.
• Must be technically savvy about Linux and C/C++ Systems Software and can quickly establish credibility and rapport with sharp developers.
• Proven track record of execution and results in a fluid, fast-paced, startup environment.
• Strive to maintain and enhance Vertica’s culture of high standards and “getting things done” with a sense of urgency and high quality.

Send resumes to resumes@vertica.com. Resumes from candidates only. No recruiters please.

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Product Management

Senior Product Manager, Data Platform

“Big Data” is all the rage these days, but the market is looking for products that skip the big-sky promises in favor of products and solutions that provide real business value.  We at Vertica Systems know the difference, and have developed a platform that enables businesses of all types to manage and analyze their ever increasing collections of data and become a true data-driven enterprise.  Building this platform takes smart, savvy product management, and we’re looking for a Senior Product Manager that is up for the challenge.

This position calls for someone with deep understanding of the information and database markets. You should feel as comfortable discussing the merits of deploying an MPP platform with a market-leading CIO as you are detailing use cases and requirements for ELT processing with your engineering team.  You should have strong technical capabilities, but understand how to be the voice of the market as you drive product plans.  You should be a proficient listener, a strategic thinker and a highly-motivated producer.   If this sounds like you, then let’s talk!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with customers, prospects and partners to understand their challenges and create detailed use cases and opportunity reports
• Drive product strategies that address market trends, customer needs and competitive positioning
• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from strategic to tactical activities
• Perform detailed competitive and complimentary ecosystem analysis
• Support marketing go-to-market activities
• Coordinate product planning and development with OEM and technology partners

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager in an enterprise software role
• Deep experience managing and/or developing database and platform products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree (computer science or engineering preferred);
• Some travel required

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Senior Product Manager, Analytics

“Big Data” is all the rage these days, but the market is looking for products that skip the big-sky promises in favor of products and solutions that provide real business value.  We at Vertica Systems know the difference, and have developed a platform that enables businesses of all types to manage and analyze their ever increasing collections of data and become a true data-driven enterprise.  Building this platform takes smart, savvy product management, and we’re looking for a Senior Product Manager that is up for the challenge.

This position calls for someone with deep understanding of the data analytics market.  You should feel as comfortable discussing relational and dimensional analysis with data scientists as you are detailing data mining use cases with your engineering team. You should have strong technical capabilities, but understand how to be the voice of the market as you drive product plans.  You should be a proficient listener, a strategic thinker and a highly-motivated producer.   If this sounds like you, then let’s talk!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with customers, prospects and partners to understand their challenges and create detailed use cases and opportunity reports
• Drive product strategies that address market trends, customer needs and competitive positioning
• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from strategic to tactical activities
• Perform detailed competitive and complimentary ecosystem analysis
• Support marketing go-to-market activities
• Coordinate product planning and development with technology partners

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager in an enterprise software role
• Deep experience managing and/or developing analytics products and technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree (computer science, engineering or mathematics preferred);
• Some travel required

Send resumes to resumes@vertica.com. Resumes from candidates only. No recruiters please.

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Sales

Regional Sales Managers – Major Cities Worldwide – (Principals Only)

Locations:

• In the U.S. – San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta & Denver.
• Worldwide – London, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore & Korea.

This position will be responsible for direct sales and management of a major metropolitan territory for the Vertica Analytic Database. This person needs a strong large-account management background and will require the ability to manage complex sales situations and large projects. The position requires extensive business management skills in order to build relationships with in all layers of customer organizations. The ideal candidate will be proficient in developing quarterly and annual strategic plans in order to drive sale/revenue. Business reporting will include a weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast as well as long term pipeline development. Candidates must have a strong understanding and experience with enterprise software sales and working with partners.
Responsibilities

1. Exceed quota
2. Drive sales engagements and develop a process within the region
3. Build strong relationships within all layers of customers and prospects
4. Business planning and reporting (monthly/quarterly forecast and pipeline development)
5. Successful in building strong virtual team and network
6. Customer acquisition

Requirements

• Experience handling million dollar quotas
• Strong selling skills in enterprise accounts & experience in selling complex solutions
• Must be a self-starter and strong closer with multi-tasking ability
• Understanding of large business organizations and their buying cycles
• Experience with solution selling as it relates to business intelligence applications
• A minimum BA degree in a technical or sales marketing discipline
• 10+ years account management experience in a fast-growth, high-technology company

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Sales Account Development Representative

Vertica is a leading analytic database management software company that has been experiencing high growth year after year. Vertica is continuing to expand its marketing, sales, and inside sales organizations. The Sales Account Development role plays a critical part of the enterprise software sales cycle.

As an Account Development Representative you will be nurturing and qualifying opportunities – identifying key decision-makers, mapping accounts, identifying business drivers, and working collaboratively with direct field sales managers on pipeline building activity. You will also work with our channel partners to maximize optimal sales opportunities. The ideal candidate will possess high energy, an aggressive sales attitude and the ability to work in a fast-paced inside sales environment.
Responsibilities

• Gain solid understanding of the database analytics market, Vertica’s differentiated offering and Vertica’s sales process
• Drive qualified pipeline activity by following up on inbound marketing-generated leads and inquiries
• Drive outbound call activity to target and penetrate key accounts
• Collaborate with field sales and field engineers on identifying qualified opportunities
• Work with channel partners to identify qualified opportunities

Additional Skill Set

• Productive, resourceful, positive attitude
• Collaborative and have ability to work in a team-environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, presentation skills also important

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3 years minimum inside sales or business development experience required
• Experience in enterprise software or team-selling environments required
• Experience in analytic database or associated industries is ideal

Send resumes to resumes@vertica.com. Resumes from candidates only. No recruiters please.

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Support

Technical Support Engineer

Vertica is looking for highly skilled, focused, and well-organized individuals to join our premier support team. Our customers deserve expert advice in resolving issues. A qualified candidate will be a quick study, pay close attention to detail and passionate about helping others. This person will interact with sales, engineering, and other groups within the organization. You should be comfortable in a small company environment, interfacing directly with customers in the field, on the phone, via e-mail and chat.
Key responsibilities include:

• Working with customers and field engineers to resolve customer support requests.
• Assisting with post-sale, customer support for designing, transforming, loading, and querying in the Vertica Database.
• Modifying and verifying schemas, SQL statements, and load or query scripts.
• Managing multiple accounts and caseloads simultaneously, while also determining and managing priorities.
• Coordinating cases and responses with the required specialists within Vertica.
• Utilize and contribute to Vertica’s support request and tracking system
• Communicating product feature requests from customers to Product Management.
• Writing solutions for customer problems and trouble-shooting tips to enhance knowledge base.

Qualified candidates must have:

• Linux skills, scripting experience, and extensive knowledge of SQL.
• An attention to detail and acute listening skills.
• The ability to resolve and communicate complex issues in a straightforward manner.
• At least 3-4 years of professional experience working with a relational database.
• A good understanding of relational database systems including theory, design, and structure.
• A passion for customer support, hard work, and resolving problems.
• Experience in customer support or customer-facing projects.

Send resumes to resumes@vertica.com. Resumes from candidates only. No recruiters please.

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