PowerDNS, part of the Open-Xchange (OX) company, is a well-established provider of DNS software for Connectivity, Network Management, Protection and Content Filtering. With our products, we support an open-source community as well as Telco Operators, Enterprises, and Hosting Providers. Our solutions safely connect millions of users worldwide.
Job Description
Our mission:
PowerDNS, part of the Open-Xchange (OX) company, is a well-established provider of DNS software for Connectivity, Network Management, Protection and Content Filtering. With our products, we support an open-source community as well as Telco Operators, Enterprises, and Hosting Providers. Our solutions safely connect millions of users worldwide.
Discover what OX offers you:
- We work in a non-hierarchical organization that empowers everyone to take responsibility, stay focused, and contribute directly to the company’s success and customer value.
- We value expertise and continuous professional development. Our professionals work closely with experienced colleagues, take ownership of their work, and continuously expand their skills.
- Openness and diversity are core to OX. Different perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking strengthen our collaboration and help us see the bigger picture.
Your team:
The team is international and distributed across various locations in Europe, just like our customers and partners across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Your new job:
- Handle new requests, opportunities, inbound leads, and incoming partner requests in our CRM for mid-sized deals.
- Develop an understanding of our products and solutions and use professional sales tools for deal calculation and positioning proposals in competitive situations.
- Collaborate closely with technical and sales colleagues to ramp up quickly and successfully manage your own deals.
- Contribute to pipeline planning and forecasting.
- Align with Marketing on the right targeting of companies and contacts.
- Develop your own business segments over time after becoming familiar with the solutions, markets, and internal processes.
- Occasionally attend conferences, customer or partner meetings, and internal alignment meetings, while most deals are closed virtually.
- Share ideas on solutions and markets in regular internal meetings and actively help shape the PowerDNS strategy.
Your background:
- First practical experience in IT sales, business development, or another customer-facing role within a technology environment, ideally as an entry-level candidate starting a career in tech sales.
- Confident communication skills in English, both verbally and in writing, with the ability to interact comfortably with customers in calls, meetings, and presentations.
- Self-motivated, outgoing, and proactive personality with the confidence to work outside your comfort zone and succeed in tech sales.
- Basic knowledge of and interest in provider and enterprise IT topics such as networking, connectivity, compliance, and cloud technologies; knowledge of DNS, IP, cybersecurity, or network filtering is a plus.
- Analytical and structured way of working, including the ability to interpret KPI- and tool-based reports and support activity tracking where needed.
- Basic negotiation skills and a willingness to continuously develop commercial, technical, and sales capabilities.
- Commercial, business-related, or technical education or degree combined with a collaborative mindset and enjoyment in learning from and working with international teams.
- Willingness for regular in-person collaboration and meetings in the Munich area, especially during the onboarding phase, as well as occasional travel across Europe.
This is what you get at OX:
- Being part of a well-known Open Source company connecting the world, an innovation leader and outperformer in a world of tech giants.
- The flexibility to work 100% remotely ensures a work environment that suits you best.
- Flexible working hours that allow you to successfully combine your home and family responsibilities with work.
- Getting together in-person for workshops and fun team events.
- Time off to volunteer – and mental health support when you need it.
- We provide financial relief through corporate benefits and a subsidy for ergonomic chairs and desks.
- We can discuss further location-related benefits together in an initial talk.