Job Overview
- Job Title Business Development Specialist
- Hiring Organization OpenCraft
- Company Website https://opencraft.com/
- Remote Locations Worldwide
- Job Type Remote, Full-Time
We are a team of veteran open-source developers, working on educational and community-based projects in an open-first environment – and we are looking for a team member who can help us manage client relationships and handle sales. The work you do will impact learners all around the world.
Remote-first
Unlike companies who reluctantly started to accept remote workers recently, we have embraced it from day 1. For the past 10+ years, we have based and refined our way of working around remote-friendly workflows, from the ground up. No day-long video meetings, mandatory work hours, or risk of being forced back into an office one day — as long as you have a good internet connection, it’s none of our business where you work from. 🙂
We are all working remotely, from all continents (except Antarctica, at least so far – applicants welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows based on asynchronous principles and good documentation practices.
For this sales position, you will need to schedule time to meet with clients, which are mostly in US time zones. As long as your schedule can overlap enough with the US to consistently hold meetings with prospects, you can work where you like.
Online education
We are one of the main contributors to the Open edX project, the main open-source MOOC platform created by MIT, Harvard and many other top universities. It powers sites like edX.org, the MIT Open Learning Library, and the national online learning platform for France. We provide development and hosting for institutions like Harvard Medical School, Harvard LabXchange, Cloudera, Autodesk, and several governments. We are not affiliated with edX.org, but we contribute and work with them on various projects.
Contracting terms
This is a part-time to full-time, permanent contract position, billable hourly. We aim for long-term relationships — once in, almost all team members stay for many years.
Job Requirements
- Experience in sales and customer account management
- Light software engineering background– you should be able to:
- Run the project locally to learn its features in detail, using tools like Docker compose with WSL or Linux
- Have basic familiarity with Git
- Read code in at least one turing-complete programming language, preferably Python and/or JS/TypeScript
- Comfortable with holding meetings, performing presentations and speaking publicly
- Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Comfort with working with a mostly asynchronous team (most communications will be over email)
- Can-do attitude
- Attention to detail
Nice to Have:
These items are a plus and stronger consideration will be given to candidates who can meet these:
- Knowledge of the education academia and industry – especially online learning, MOOCs or the Open edX online course platform
- Deep Engineering experience: If you’ve been a practicing engineer who switched to sales, that would be preferred.
- Experience Participating in collaborative online communities – eg. forums, games, open source
- Blog post and/or copywriting experience
- Familiarity with project planning tools like Jira, Trello, or GitLab
- Proficiency with Google Sheets or other Spreadsheet programs
How To Apply
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More Information
- Remote Job Location Anywhere
- Salary Offer to be discussed
- Experience Level Mid Level, Senior Level
- Education Level Non Specific
- Working Hours full time
- Job Application Via Custom Application Page
