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Business Development Associate

ZL Technologies (a Silicon Valley-based company) is looking for high-caliber associates to join our team in a variety of functions, including, but not limited to:
·        Marketing
·        Business Development and Sales
·        Project Management
·        Systems Analyst/Architect and Sales Engineering
·        Customer Success/Account Management
·        Trade Show Strategy
 
We value the following traits:
·        Combination of High IQ and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
·        Outgoing personality
·        Commitment, drive, and sustained energy towards long-term tasks
·        Flexibility + adaptability
·        Creativity + Natural Curiosity
·        Results-Oriented
·        Open-Minded

We are looking for people who are strong in communication (both great speakers and great writers), yet humble and self-aware, constantly seeking self-improvement. We are looking to hire great employees, not “role fillers”. We believe that if people fit the criteria listed above, they will be successful in almost any role.  

Your job may include a mix of the following functions:
 
Product Marketing
Responsibilities in Marketing could include:
  • Developing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy,
  • Writing and creating content such as thought leadership articles, marketing collateral (i.e. customer case-studies, whitepapers, data sheets)
  • Managing outbound email marketing campaigns
  • Planning and executing ZL’s strategy at Industry Conference & Trade Shows
  • Gathering and analyzing competitive intelligence + defining product differentiation for industry analysts. 

Please note that our Marketing is NOT focused on Data Analysis, nor do we need help in Social Media marketing. We are a low-volume, but very high-value sales environment, which means there is not a big need for doing market analysis. Our marketing associates focus much more on writing content and product positioning. 

Business Development and Sales
Responsibilities in Business Development include:

  • Identify potential companies for ZL to form partnerships or strategic alliances
  • Reach out to key decision makers at potential partners/customers to introduce ZL Technologies platform
  • Qualify opportunities at target accounts and target partners to determine which opportunities are worth pursing
  • Represent ZL Technologies at industry Trade Shows, Conferences, and other networking events 

Project Management
Responsibilities in Project Management include:

  • Work with ZL Technologies’ clients and internal teams at ZL Technologies during the client’s “onboarding” phase, to ensure program goals are met
  • Ensure successful execution of key priorities and projects within the account
  • Drive strategic and operational decisions, as well as the account’s stakeholders, to the adequate execution of the account’s projects
  • Communicating with both the IT and the Business organizations within the client to develop strategic program and project goals
  • Building and keeping track of the program level task tracking, and ensure risk and issues are being tracked and mitigated/resolved
  • Communicating the progress of the projects within the internal organization and escalating issues when needed


Systems Analyst/Architect and Sales Engineering
Responsibilities in Systems Analyst/Architect and Sales Engineering include:
  • Training customers on how to effectively use both basic and advanced features of the product
  • Solving and/or escalating any technical bugs or issues reported by customers to the proper parties
  • Mastery of product features and UI in order to help customers
  • Guiding demos and technical aspects of sales calls
  • Assisting customer end-users navigate technical documentation
  • Helping to stress-test the product before software releases are made available to customers

 
About ZL Technologies
Founded in 1999, ZL Technologies has proven itself as the specialized provider of electronic content archiving software for the most demanding large enterprise environments. The award-winning ZL Unified Archive® addresses E-Discovery, compliance, records management and storage optimization. Built upon the industry’s most scalable platform, ZL offers today’s leading organizations the ability to comprehensively manage the entirety of their digital assets. To accomplish this challenge, ZL engineered a number of complex technologies into one seamless solution in order to manage billions of documents from a consolidated point of control. For more information on what differentiates ZL’s product, see Unified Archive®