The database market is massive (IDC estimates it to be $121B+ by 2025!) and MongoDB is at the head of its disruption. At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

MongoDB, as a database software and consistently voted the #1 most wanted database preferred by developers, is continuing to attract the most demanding, innovative companies and development teams in enterprise software. 

To meet this demand, we are looking for a passionate technical expert in the retail industry to join our growing remote/flexible, globally-dispersed Industry Solutions Team. Our objective is to align MongoDB as an industry solution and ensure we understand enterprise clients and their needs to modernize software legacies, transition to modernized solutions, and guide them through continuous data-driven modernization. This particular role will be retail-focused, so we’re seeking someone preferably who has worked for a retail organization or on retail-related software, and willing to keep their thumb on the pulse of one of the most technologically innovative industries. 

MongoDB Industry Solutions Principals are the most senior members of the team and work directly with the C-Suite of our clients and partners. They are the subject matter experts of each industry, delivering thought leadership and practical directions in industry-specific data challenges. This involves generating content (i.e. webinars, white papers, blogs, events, presentations, etc.) on industry-specific solutions, in this case retail. The second leg of this role is direct account engagements with major enterprise and government clients, to help business leaders see the vision of how MongoDB is the right approach for their industry’s challenges, wants, and needs. These responsibilities require a happy medium of technical knowledge as well as people, presentation, and thought leadership skills.  MongoDB Principals are the senior team members communicating the trends and direction of MongoDB’s platform to customers, partners and participate in industry forums and standardization efforts (e.g. OMG/NRF retail data modelling).  The team is very hands-on and our responsibilities range from early research into future solutions, collaboration with external partners and generating materials for sales teams to ensure success when interacting with clients. Superb communication and presentation skills are a paramount prerequisite.  

You'll work closely with a broad variety of functions inside the whole company, ranging from product, partners, marketing and sales. You will play a key role in winning deals and driving the business forward and will be a trusted advisor to a wide range of clients from startups to the world's largest enterprise IT organizations. Your core focus is the understanding of the fast moving space of industry standards, cloud compliance, regulators and boards around the world.

The location for this role is quite flexible but will be based in Europe with a preference for Barcelona. 

As an ideal candidate, you will have

• 10+ years in the industry in multiple areas or significant experience in related research or adjacent applicable functions
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to visualize and communicate complex information to all levels of an organization - both internally and externally 
• Experience with definition of standards, working in forums, councils, steering committees is a great plus 
• Experience with scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Ability to discuss a broad range of data technologies ( non linear list:  RDBMS, document, key-value, unstructured, noSQL, ISM, XQuery/XML,...)
• The ability to travel up to 30% for clients, events, and the occasional team meetup 

You may also have

• Advanced Degree with proven background (i.e. Masters, Ph.D, or experience equivalent). 
• Experience working with various database products, ETL tools and software solutions
• Experience with database programming and data models 
• A MongoDB Certification 
• Additional language skills in other languages (Conversational is appropriate)

What you do at MongoDB

• You translate technical concepts and patterns into business benefits for senior management and executives as well as enterprise architects and product owners. This includes the creation of training materials, slide decks, whitepapers, blogs,...
• You advise the technical teams of MongoDB and clients in designing systems, applications, and infrastructure to help drive some of the world's largest projects leveraging MongoDB in their respective industries
• You partner with our sales team to help ensure success in accounts ranging from small startups to large enterprises, structure relationships and build templates to engage with various client communities
• You present MongoDB’s position at various events - either in person or digital
• You represent MongoDB in international organizations, in workgroups, committees, standardization bodies
• You are tightly aligned with our product management organization and communicate field requirements, changes you see in industry requirements to the product management leadership
• You demonstrate resilience and sound judgment in dealing with business challenges and are able to guide more junior colleagues to a successful resolution pattern
• You proactively seek opportunities to support and mentor pre-sales team members and share best practices 
• You have situational awareness and react appropriately in group settings
• Enjoy the ride because we’re growing fast!

What you will learn

• The rapidly expanding MongoDB product suite, including
• Core database server
• Atlas (fully managed cloud database service)
• Atlas Data Lake
• Atlas Full-Text Search
• Realm Mobile Databases and Solutions
• MongoDB Charts
• Other Tools and connectors - Ops/Cloud Manager, Compass, Connector for BI, Connector for Spark
• Market-relevant, complementary technologies e.g. Apache Kafka, Kubernetes
• Modern and popular architecture design patterns, methodologies and concerns e.g. microservices, event-driven architectures, DevOps, cloud, security
• Sales techniques and related soft skills - presentations, demonstrations, whiteboarding, discovery, objection handling
• Exposure to a wide variety of market verticals and a broad spectrum of interesting use cases.

This role is remote optional until 4 April, 2022, we are looking to speak to candidates who plan to be available in Barcelona for when we introduce our hybrid model.

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