Sales Engineer - Internship

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Join our Hospitality Team as a Sales Engineer Intern and kickstart your career in the exciting intersection of sales and technology! In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in enhancing Lightspeed’s sales productivity and streamlining deal flow by providing technical insights for complex solutions.

You’ll collaborate closely with Sales, Product Marketing and Product Management teams, gaining hands-on experience while engaging with key technical decision-makers. Your contributions will help ensure that our proposals meet customer needs effectively. If you’re eager to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Be a functional and technical point of contact within Lightspeed’s Sales team
• Proactively scope the functionality and technical solution required to address customer requirements, assess customers’ met and unmet needs, and recommend optimum solutions and support
• You will “wow!” prospects and customers by acting as the lead technical expert during product demonstrations, in person or through webinars
• Creating sales-focused resources to highlight the value propositions of our offerings;
• Provide technical coaching to Lightspeed’s Sales team
• Represent Lightspeed at conferences, shows, and exhibitions
• Handle other duties and responsibilities as defined by management

What you need to bring:

• Be sales-minded and comfortable presenting to different audiences
• A natural flair for technology and innovation
• Passionate about the vibrant world of hospitality
• You speak fluent Flemish and a good level of English
• Other European languages are a plus but not essential

We know that people are more than what’s on their CV. If you’re unsure that you have the right profile for the role... hit the ‘Apply’ button and give it a try!

Please know these internships are only offered to students following an education at a Dutch educational institution who are looking for an internship of at least 20 weeks.

If at the end of your internship, you are a true Lightspeed addict and cannot say goodbye just yet? Let us know if Lightspeed aligns with your future career ambitions as we are continuously growing!

What’s in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

• Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
• Genuine career opportunities in a company that’s creating new jobs everyday;
• Unlock your potential with our growth program, paving the way for promotions and career advancement;
• Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.