About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and customer-focused Tech Evangelist Server/ Laptop Solutions with 5+ years of experience in presales, solution consulting, technology evangelism, and customer engagement across enterprise computing platforms.
The ideal candidate will have strong exposure to Servers, Laptops, Workstations, Enterprise Computing, Data Centre Infrastructure, and associated technologies, with the ability to understand customer requirements, architect solutions, conduct technical presentations and demonstrations, and influence technology decisions.
The role requires a combination of deep technology understanding, consultative presales skills, excellent communication, and strong stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technology Evangelism
- Act as a technology evangelist and subject-matter expert for Server, Laptop, Workstation and Enterprise Computing solutions.
- Track emerging technologies, market trends, OEM roadmaps and competitive offerings.
- Develop and deliver technology-focused presentations, workshops, webinars and customer sessions.
- Build technology narratives and value propositions around next-generation computing solutions.
- Underatand server/laptop configurations and also understand competitive landscape in terms of features and pricing.
- Represent the organization at customer forums, technology events, conferences and industry engagements.
2. Presales & Solution Consulting
- Engage with customers to understand their business, technical and infrastructure requirements.
- Translate customer requirements into appropriate server, laptop and computing solutions.
- Develop technical proposals, solution architectures, BOMs, RFP/RFQ responses and presentations.
- Conduct technical discussions, product demonstrations, POCs and solution workshops.
- Support sales teams throughout the opportunity lifecycle, from qualification to closure.
- Participate in customer meetings and lead technical solution discussions.
3. Server & Enterprise Computing Expertise
- Strong understanding of:
- Enterprise & Rack Servers
- Blade Servers
- Workstations
- Enterprise Laptops & Commercial PCs
- Storage & Backup
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Virtualization
- Networking fundamentals
- Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
- High-Performance Computing
- AI/ML Computing Infrastructure
- Understanding of server processors, memory, storage, GPUs, networking and system architecture.
- Exposure to Intel/AMD-based computing platforms and enterprise hardware ecosystems.
- Understanding of OEM offerings and competitive positioning.
4. Laptop & End-User Computing
- Robust understanding of enterprise/commercial laptop platforms and workstations.
- Ability to map customer requirements around:
- Performance
- Security
- Manageability
- Mobility
- Battery life
- Device lifecycle
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Exposure to enterprise device management, endpoint security and modern workplace technologies will be an advantage.
5. Customer & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a trusted technology advisor for enterprise customers.
- Build strong relationships with CXOs, CIOs, CTOs, IT Heads, Infrastructure Heads, Procurement and Engineering teams.
- Conduct discovery sessions and identify technology opportunities.
- Understand customer pain points and position differentiated technology solutions.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Delivery and Marketing teams.
6. Market & Competitive Intelligence
- Monitor market trends across Servers, Laptops, Workstations, Data Center and Enterprise Computing.
- Analyze competitor products, specifications, pricing models and technology positioning.
- Provide inputs for product strategy, GTM initiatives and sales enablement.
- Create technical comparison matrices and competitive battle cards.
7. Content & Sales Enablement
- Create technical presentations, solution briefs, whitepapers, case studies and demo content.
- Conduct internal enablement sessions for Sales and Business Development teams.
- Develop technical collateral to support customer acquisition and business growth.
- Support marketing initiatives through webinars, conferences and technology events.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Presales / Solution Consulting / Technology Evangelism / Technical Sales.
- Strong experience in Servers/ Laptop/PC solutions.
- Experience working with enterprise customers and large accounts.
- Strong understanding of enterprise computing and hardware architecture.
- Experience in RFP/RFQ responses, technical proposals, solution design and presentations.
- Excellent customer-facing and communication skills.
- Strong presentation, demonstration and storytelling abilities.
- Ability to communicate complex technology concepts to both technical and business audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with Sales, Engineering, Product and Marketing teams.
Preferred Experience Experience with one or more of the following ecosystems will be highly desirable:
- Dell Technologies
- HPE
- Lenovo
- Cisco
- Supermicro
- ASUS
- HP
- Intel
- AMD
- NVIDIA
- Enterprise OEM / ODM ecosystem
Preferred Technical Exposure
- x86 Server Architecture
- Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC
- GPU Computing
- NVIDIA GPU platforms
- Storage technologies
- RAID
- SAN / NAS
- Virtualization VMware / Hyper-V / KVM
- Windows & Linux
- Networking fundamentals
- Cloud & Hybrid Cloud
- Data Center Infrastructure
- AI/ML Infrastructure
- Cybersecurity fundamentals
- Enterprise Device Management
Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, IT or a related technical discipline.
MBA/PGDM in Sales, Marketing or Technology Management will be an added advantage.
Interested can reach out to me at
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