Jr. Global Sales Engineer, Kensington

At Kensington, we pride ourselves on an entrepreneurial culture that empowers us to think creatively, share our thoughts, collaborate, and voice our opinions. It’s how we’ve innovated, inspired, led, learned, and succeeded for 40 years. Headquartered in Burlingame, California, Kensington is a division of ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO), one of the world’s largest designers, marketers, and manufacturers of branded academic, consumer and business products, sold in more than 100 countries across the globe.

Job Summary

Kensington is seeking a Jr. Global Sales Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will work closely with our global Sales and Technical Teams to support pre and post-sales activities, provide technical guidance to customers, and contribute to the development of solutions that align with client needs.

Responsibilities

• Assist with pre and post-sales technical support to customers, sales teams, and channel partners.
• Participate in product demonstrations, webinars, and virtual training sessions to showcase solutions and value propositions.
• Work with the global sales teams to identify and qualify business opportunities as well as understand key technical requirements.
• Support the creation of sales enablement materials such as presentations, whitepapers, and technical documents.
• Respond to technical inquiries from clients and provide initial troubleshooting support.
• Stay up to date on product features, competitive landscape, and industry trends to provide insightful recommendations.
• Assist in drafting responses to proposals (RFPs) and technical documentation.
• Work closely with Product Management, Marketing, and Technical Support to relay customer feedback and enhance solutions.
• Develop relationships with customers and partners to ensure successful product adoption and satisfaction.
• Represent Kensington at user group meetings, tradeshows, and industry conferences.
• Work closely with strategic partners to develop or enhance our solutions.
• Ability to travel up to 40% - domestic and international as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, preferred.
  • Or three years of experience in a relevant market and industry.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-motivated with a keen interest in technology and sales.
• Experience with solution selling and technical presentations is a plus.
• Comfortable working in a remote and fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for team meetings or client interactions.
• Self-starter, energetic and pro-active with the ability to adjust to ambiguity.
• Detailed-orientated with a desire to engage with partners and end users daily.
• Experience with computer attached peripherals preferred. 
• Experienced in solution selling, project scoping and product demonstrations.
• Comfortable with consultative presentation to C-level business executives as well as detailed, in-depth discussions with a technical audience.
• This is a remote position. Candidates based in the CST or EST time zones are highly preferred.

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Salary Range: $80,000 - $85,000

About Us:

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a PowerA® gaming controller, a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of over $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

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More information about ACCO Brands, the Home of Great Brands Built by Great People, can be found at www.accobrands.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At ACCO Brands, we are committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical and mental disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. ACCO Brands believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

AODA

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities will be provided in all parts of the recruiting process as required under the ACCO Brands Canada AODA policy.  Applicants are asked to make their needs known in advance.