Support Engineer - Spain

Liferay is looking for a support engineer to join its team in Madrid, Spain. The position is meant for candidates seeking a technical career with large opportunities for professional and personal development. At Liferay, we believe in very high quality support services provided by highly technically skilled professionals with capabilities to deliver fast responses to new challenges.

Main responsibilities

• Respond to technical issues reported by customers. Requires written and spoken technical skills.
• Research the issue, trying to reproduce it locally and searching for the root cause in collaboration with the rest of the support team and the product developers. Requires the ability to test issues in a wide variety of scenarios and configuration environments and developing the right solutions.
• Participate in solving any defects that might be found in the product.

Additional responsibilities

The following additional responsibilities will depend on the capabilities and interests of the candidate, and would be agreed together with him/her:

• Help to improve the product, suggesting functionalities and features based on customer usage of the product.
• Participate in Liferay's official trainings.
• Participate in events and conferences.
• Customer relationships management.
• Consultancy.
• Process management.

Qualifications and experience:

The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics:

• An Engineering Degree (IT or Telecommunications) from a four-year university program
• Fluent in Spanish and English
• Experience in J2EE
• Proactivity, learning skills and passionate about new challenges and their solutions
• Motivated for continuous learning. Ongoing training will be provided and facilitated by Liferay
• Good communication skills
• Team building skills

The following characteristics will be positively considered:

• Experience developing in J2EE (i.e., Servlets, JSPs, Struts, Hibernate, Spring)
• Experience as application servers administrator (i.e., Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere)
• Experience as DB manager (i.e., Oracle, Mysql, PostrgreSQL)
• Experience developing in Liferay (portlets, themes, ext plugins)
• Experience with Portals, collaboration, and content management software
• Exposure to other web technologies: Flex, PHP, RoR, Django
• Exposure to Linux, both as administrator and end user
• Participation in other open source projects
• Teaching skills
• Experience in customer relationships management

We are offering

• Salary package according to qualification and experience
• Opportunities to take responsibility and grow professionally
• Ability to work in an international context
• A positive and pleasant work environment
• Working at a successful company with strong growth

More info about the position

• Contract of indefinite duration with a six-month probationary period
• Start date: March 2012
• City: Madrid, Spain

How to apply: Please send a resume and a motivation letter to careers-es.

Alliance Manager - France

Liferay is looking for an Alliance Manager to represent Liferay to its partners and customers in France and other French-speaking markets. France is one of Liferay's most successful markets, with notable customers including DGA, Barclay's France, and PMU. The Alliance Manager will work with Liferay's French partners to sell Liferay software and help deliver successful business solutions to customers.

The ideal candidate should possess the following qualities:

• 6-8 years of experience in the enterprise software industry in France
• Experience working with channel partners to sell enterprise software
• Experience managing a sales-related team, including pre-sales engineers and sales representatives
• Quality relationships with decision makers at leading French companies
• Strong customer relationship and presentation skills
• Technical knowledge, especially with portals, collaboration, and content management software. High-level knowledge of issues around authentication, high availability, authorization, usability, and general portal-related technologies
• Knowledge of emerging technologies in social and collaboration software
• Ability to understand and speak to business needs of customers (customer acquisition and retention, manufacturing processes and optimization, key performance indicators, knowledge sharing and expertise location, accelerated time to market)
• Knowledge of the sales and delivery cycle of consulting projects
• Comfortable in international environments working across many cultures, but also well versed in the particularities of the French business environment
• Fluent in French, strong command of English
• Experience with commercial open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

The Alliance Manager for France will work independently, with occasional 1-2 week trips to Liferay's EU headquarters based near Frankfurt, Germany.

Liferay is a well recognized commercial provider of open source software for portals, content management and collaboration. It has been recognized as a leader by analyst firm Gartner and is well regarded by many established companies throughout the world, including Allianz, Barclay's, Lufthansa Flight Training, Volkswagen Group of America, and Wolters Kluwer. The company is growing at a fast pace to keep up with strong market demand for innovative solutions for personal and social web experiences and enterprise applications.

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Consultant - UK

Liferay is looking for a consultant to join its team in London, UK.

Responsibilities:

• Consultants will perform a variety of technical and business tasks related to Liferay's core business in enterprise portal and collaboration software, including pre-sales, professional services, training, and custom development.
• Consultants will have opportunities to work with Liferay's well known customers in the telecom, technology, manufacturing, financial services and other industries throughout the UK, to help them build interesting web-based business applications using Liferay software.
• Consultants will gain valuable technical experience with the latest web and social technologies used for both front- and back-end development.

Qualifications and experience

The ideal candidate will have a good number of the following characteristics, possibly with more of a business or technical emphasis:

• 2-4 years or equivalent of experience in the enterprise software industry
• An Engineering Degree (IT or Telecommunications) from a four-year university program.
• Experience with Portals, collaboration, and content management software. Previous experience with Liferay.
• Exposure to Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Exposure to front-end technologies such as CSS, HTML5, YUI (and/or Alloy UI), jQuery
• Willingness/desire to do medium amount of travel
• Fluent in English
• Good presentation skills
• Team building skills
• Experience with Open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

We are offering:

• Salary package according to qualification and experience
• Opportunities to take responsibility and grow professionally
• Ability to work in an international context
• A positive and pleasant work environment
• Working at a successful company with strong growth

More info about the position:

• Contract of indefinite duration with a six-month probationary period
• Start date: February/March 2012
• City: London, UK

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Sales Representative - Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Liferay is looking for an experienced sales representative to work with our potential customers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria who has enterprise software or related sales experience. Moreover experience in open source software, middleware and or software integration markets is an advantage.

As a Liferay Sales Representative, you will be responsible for executing our strategy for growing and expanding the Liferay customer base. You will be responsible for handling Enterprise level opportunities and working with C-level members of organizations who need to increase their company's productivity through Liferay's unique, enterprise-class portal, content management and collaboration platform.

You understand the sales representative is the first interaction customers will have with Liferay, and you know that consultative sales vs. high-pressure sales will help you to meet and exceed your quarterly/annual revenue quota requirements.

You love to travel to get in front of prospective customers and are comfortable meeting with everyone from engineers to executives. You also value virtual meetings and are able to easily adapt your pitch to the nuances of WebEx and GoToMeeting.

You are a quick learner and know how to demonstrate a complex software application (with the occasional help of a Sales Engineer). You also know how to read your audience and can speak to business value vs. technical value, or vice-versa, as required.

You understand the inherent value of open source software and can speak directly to the benefits over closed source solutions.

The applicant should have:

• Significant sales experience in enterprise software
• Strong business, sales and financial acumen
• The ability to be a quick learner and creative deal-maker
• Experience demonstrating software using online tools such as GoToMeeting or WebEx
• Demonstrated ability to work in an unstructured, results-driven environment
• The ability to develop new leads and follow-up on leads from inception to close
• Strong presence and knowledge of social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• Significant experience in presenting in-person to customers
• The ability to travel as required
• The ability to articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and our solutions
• Fluent in English and German

Liferay is the leading provider of open source enterprise portal and social collaboration software solutions. We have experienced substantial growth over the last six years of operations, with doubledigit revenue growth, hundreds of customers, and significant recognition in the software industry.

Candidates can look forward to a dynamic and friendly workplace and the opportunity to help continue to build a premier, leading organization in open source. We are offering a salary package according to qualification and experience, the opportunities to take responsibility and grow professionally, the ability to work in an international context, a positive and pleasant work environment and working at a successful company with strong growth.

Our award winning Liferay Portal platform has been in development since 2000 and is recognized by Gartner for its innovation, flexibility, and completeness of feature-set.

Offering a full suite of professional services around its products, Liferay, Inc. works with major enterprises worldwide, including AutoZone, Benetton, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telecom, Intuit, Lufthansa Flight Training, WorldVision, and more.

Please send a resume to careers-de to apply.

Consultant - Spain

Liferay is looking for a consultant to join its team in Madrid, Spain.

Responsibilities

• Consultants will perform a variety of technical and business tasks related to Liferay's core business in enterprise portal and collaboration software, including pre-sales, professional services, training, and custom development.
• Consultants will have opportunities to work with Liferay's well known customers in the telco, AAPP, manufacturing, financial services and other industries throughout Spain and Portugal, to help them build interesting web-based business applications using Liferay software.
• Consultants will gain valuable technical experience with the latest web and social technologies used for both front- and back-end development

Qualifications and experience:

The ideal candidate will have a good number of the following characteristics, possibly with more of a business or technical emphasis:

• 2-4 years or equivalent of experience in the enterprise software industry
• An Engineering Degree (IT or Telecommunications) from a four-year university program.
• Experience with Portals, collaboration, and content management software. Previous experience with Liferay.
• Exposure to Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Exposure to front-end technologies such as CSS, HTML5, YUI (and/or Alloy UI), jQuery
• Willingness/desire to do medium amount of travel
• Fluent in Spanish and English
• Good presentation skills
• Team building skills
• Experience with Open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

We are offering

• Salary package according to qualification and experience
• Opportunities to take responsibility and grow professionally
• Ability to work in an international context
• A positive and pleasant work environment
• Working at a successful company with strong growth

More info about the position

• Contract of indefinite duration with a six-month probationary period
• Start date: February/March 2012
• City: Madrid, Spain

How to apply: Please send a resume and a motivation letter to careers-es.

Consultant, Portals and Web Applications - Germany

Liferay is looking for Consultants to join its team in the European Headquarters located in Eschborn, just outside Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Candidates from other geographies can also be considered for home office arrangements, but those willing to be based in the Frankfurt area will be given first priority.

Consultants will perform a variety of technical and business tasks related to Liferay's core business in enterprise portal and collaboration software, including pre-sales, professional services, training, and custom development. Consultants will work both with the EU team in Eschborn and with Liferay employees in other parts of Europe and the US. Consultants will have opportunities to work with Liferay's well known customers in the automotive, manufacturing, financial services and other industries throughout the EU to help them build interesting web-based business applications using Liferay software. Consultants will gain valuable technical experience with the latest web and social technologies used for both front- and back-end development.

The ideal candidate will have a good number of the following characteristics, possibly with more of a business or technical emphasis:

Tangibles:

• 2-4 years or equivalent of experience in the enterprise software industry in a German-speaking market (preferably Germany)
• Willingness/desire to do medium amount of travel
• Fluent in German, strong command of English

Technical knowledge:

• Experience with Portals, collaboration, and content management software
• Exposure to Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Exposure to front-end technologies such as JQuery, YUI, CSS, HTML5

Soft skills:

• Good presentation skills
• Comfortable in international environments working across many cultures, but also well versed in the particularities of the German business environment
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments

Extras:  

• Wider experience in the general European market is a plus
• Other multi-lingual abilities (French, Italian) will be beneficial
• Experience with commercial open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Account Manager – Germany

Liferay GmbH is looking for Account Managers to work with its international team at its EU headquarters in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The Account Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with Liferay's customers, helping them to make the most of their investment in Liferay technology and working to ensure their satisfaction with their Liferay subscription. The Account Manager shall be the customer's advocate within the Liferay organization, communicating the customer's needs with respect to professional services, training and documentation, or architectural assistance and coordinating a response from various divisions of the Liferay organization. The Account Manager will also assist in communicating new feature requests or product improvements from customers to the Liferay Product Management team. Account Managers should also identify opportunities to expand Liferay's use and application in an organization and work with sales representatives to close such opportunities. Finally, Account Managers should use their intuitive skills to discern high-potential clients and to apply the right mix of complementary and paid-for services to keep Liferay's customers happy.

Candidates should possess a good number of the following qualities:

• 4 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, with at least a year of experience in a customer-facing role
• Strong interpersonal skills and strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to understand business requirements communicated by customers and put them in writing
• Abilty to translate the language and needs of business people into technical solutions at a high level
• Understanding of the industry dynamics present among customers 
• General understanding of the requirements definition process, including wireframes, specifications, and use cases
• Fluent in English; Fluency in German a major advantage
• A technical- or business-related degree from a four-year university program

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Junior Engineer, Support Services – Germany

Liferay GmbH is building a Support Services engineering team for the German market and is looking for Junior Engineers to work with its international team at its EU headquarters in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The Junior Engineer is the first line of support for Liferay's subscription customers and helps to ensure customers are satisfied with their Liferay subscription. Junior  Engineers shall help to diagnose technical difficulties that arise in the use of Liferay software, collecting relevant information, applying known patches or workarounds, and educating customers on the proper use of the software. Junior Engineers will experience a rapid learning curve and be exposed to a number of leading Java-related technologies used in modern application development, including databases, operating systems, application servers, enterprise software packages (including ERP, CRM, and financials), as well as leading development frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring, and JQuery. Junior Engineers will also receive comprehensive exposure to the concerns of running production enterprise systems, including load balancing, clustering, and virtualization technologies. 

Candidates should possess a good number of the following qualities: 

• A technical degree from a four-year university program, particularly in Computer Science or related degrees
• 1-2 years of experience as a software engineer, support engineer a plus
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to reduce a problem to its fundamental parts
• Analytical skills to develop solutions for deficiencies in the software
• Good knowledge of algorithms and their principles
• Ability to generalize solutions for the generic case rather than the specific
• Ability to work well under a deadline
• The ability to explain technical matters clearly to people of varying technical ability
• Good interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Strong English skills; Fluency in German a major advantage

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Alliance Manager - Nordic Region

Liferay is looking for an Alliance Manager to represent Liferay to its partners and customers in Nordic markets, primarily Finland and Sweden, followed by Norway and Denmark. Finland is one of Liferay's most active markets, with many Liferay-based websites and a vibrant community that puts Finland as the 14th highest country among visitors to Liferay.com. Sweden is in the top 30 visitors to the site and notable sites include Kanal 5's web presence.

The Alliance Manager will work in combination with Liferay's EU teams and its Nordic partners to sell Liferay software and help deliver successful business solutions to customers.

The ideal candidate should possess the following qualities:

• 6-8 years of experience in the enterprise software industry in Finland or Sweden
• Experience working with channel partners to sell enterprise software
• Experience managing a sales-related team, including pre-sales engineers and sales representatives
• Quality relationships with decision makers at leading Nordic companies • Strong customer relationship and presentation skills
• Technical knowledge, especially with portals, collaboration, and content management software. High-level knowledge of issues around authentication, high availability, authorization, usability, and general portal-related technologies
• Knowledge of emerging technologies in social and collaboration software
• Ability to understand and speak to business needs of customers (customer acquisition and retention, manufacturing processes and optimization, key performance indicators, knowledge sharing and expertise location, accelerated time to market)
• Knowledge of the sales and delivery cycle of consulting projects
• Comfortable in international environments working across many cultures, but also well versed in the particularities of the Finnish and/or Swedish business environment
• Fluent in Finnish, strong command of English. Strong knowledge of Swedish a plus
• Experience with commercial open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

The Alliance Manager for the Nordic Region will work independently, with occasional 1-2 week trips to Liferay's EU headquarters based near Frankfurt, Germany.

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Marketing Manager - Germany

Liferay is looking for a Marketing Manager to join its team in the European Headquarters located in Eschborn, just outside Frankfurt am Main.

This individual will assist with marketing activities for the German and wider European markets, including creating marketing material, inbound web-based marketing, email campaigns, and assisting with event organization. The individual will work both with the local team located in Eschborn and with members of the Liferay team in other parts of Europe and the US to execute Liferay's global marketing strategy in a manner appropriate for the German market. The Marketing Manager will also coordinate marketing strategies for other Liferay offices in the EU.

Candidates should have the following characteristics:

• 6-8 years of experience in the enterprise software industry in a German-speaking market (preferably Germany)
• Wider experience in the general European market
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments
• Strong knowledge of classic marketing fundamentals and current trends in inbound web-based marketing
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to write focused, market appropriate material, including press releases, brochures, case studies, and web-based content
• Relationships with the German analysts and/or technical and business press are a plus • Knowledge of the news media, analyst, and events landscape of Germany
• Knowledge of specific details of marketing in the German business environment (for example: tone of language, privacy issues)
• Ability to travel for 1-3 days at a time for industry conferences and Liferay-sponsored events
• Creativity and inventiveness, strong presentation skills, strong relationship-building skills
• Familiarity with technical topics relating to portals, collaboration, and content management software. At least high level knowledge of the issues surrounding our software
• Ability to understand and speak to business needs of customers (customer acquisition and retention, manufacturing processes and optimization, key performance indicators, knowledge sharing and expertise location, accelerated time to market)
• Strong web application skills (i.e., ability to use online tools such as WordPress, working knowledge of HTML)
• Comfortable in international environments working across many cultures
• Fluent in German, strong command of English. Other multi-lingual abilities (French, Italian) will be beneficial
• Experience with commercial open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Senior Consultant, Portals and Web Applications - Germany

Liferay is looking for Senior Consultants to join its team in the European Headquarters located in Eschborn, just outside Frankfurt am Main. Candidates from other geographies can also be considered for home office arrangements, but those willing to be based in the Frankfurt area will be given first priority.

Senior Consultants will perform a variety of technical and business tasks related to Liferay's core business in enterprise portal and collaboration software, including pre-sales, professional services, training, and custom development. Senior Consultants will work both with the EU team in Eschborn and with Liferay employees in other parts of Europe and the US. Senior Consultants will have opportunities to work with Liferay's well known customers in the automotive, manufacturing, financial services and other industries throughout the EU to help them build interesting web-based business applications using Liferay software. Senior Consultants will gain valuable technical experience with the latest web and social technologies used for both front- and back-end development.

The ideal candidate will have a good number of the following characteristics, possibly with more of a business or technical emphasis:

Tangibles:

• 5-7 years or equivalent of experience in the enterprise software industry in a German-speaking market (preferably Germany)
• Willingness/desire to do light to medium travel
• Fluent in German, strong command of English

Technical knowledge:

• Portals, collaboration, and content management software
• Knowledge of issues around authentication, high availability, authorization, usability, and general portal-related technologies
• Knowledge of Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as JQuery, YUI, CSS, HTML5

Soft skills:

• Good customer relationship skills
• Good presentation skills
• Comfortable in international environments working across many cultures, but also well versed in the particularities of the German business environment
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments that require strong consulting instincts
• Ability to understand and speak to business needs of customers (customer acquisition and retention, manufacturing processes and optimization, key performance indicators, knowledge sharing and expertise location, accelerated time to market)
• Knowledge of the sales and delivery cycle of consulting projects is helpful

Extras:

• Knowledge of and interest in current emerging technologies in the social software and collaboration space
• Wider experience in the general European market is also a plus
• Knowledge of SAP, Lotus Notes, Sharepoint a plus
• Other multi-lingual abilities (French, Italian) will be beneficial
• Experience with commercial open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Operations Manager - Germany

Liferay is looking for an Operations Manager to join its team in the European Headquarters located in Eschborn, just outside Frankfurt am Main.

This individual will assist with day to day operations, including sales, channel management, customer service, marketing, professional services, contract negotiations, accounting and administration. The individual will work both with the local team located in Eschborn and with members of the Liferay team in other parts of Europe and the US. The Operations Manager will work closely with the General Manager of Liferay GmbH to maximize the growth of Liferay in Germany. The position will provide opportunities to work with Liferay's well known customers in the automotive, manufacturing, financial services and other industries throughout the EU. The Operations Manager will also help shape Liferay's growth strategy for the general European market.

Candidates should have the following characteristics:

• 7-10 years of experience in the enterprise software industry in a German-speaking market (preferably Germany)
• Wider experience in the general European market
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments that require strong instincts in sales, management, and customer service
• Strong customer relationship skills
• Ability to travel for 1-3 days at a time
• Strong presentation skills
• Technical knowledge, especially with portals, collaboration, and content management software. At least high level knowledge of issues such as authentication, high availability, authorization, integration, custom development
• Ability to understand and speak to business needs of customers (customer acquisition and retention, manufacturing processes and optimization, key performance indicators, knowledge sharing and expertise location, accelerated time to market)
• Knowledge of the sales and delivery cycle of consulting projects
• Comfortable in international environments working across many cultures, but also well versed in the particularities of the German business environment
• Fluent in German, strong command of English. Other multi-lingual abilities (French, Italian) will be beneficial
• Experience dealing with accounting matters
• Experience dealing with legal matters with respect to contract negotiation but also for general operations of a business office
• Experience with commercial open source software (Red Hat, MySQL, JBoss) is a plus

Please send a resume to careers to apply.

Legal Counsel - Europe

Liferay is seeking applicants for the full-time position of in-house corporate counsel in the US and at its offices in Eschborn just outside Frankfurt, Germany.

The applicant should have significant experience with contract law in the software industry, with particular attention paid to applicants with experience in open source software, licenses, and contracts. Responsibilities include contract review and negotiations with other organizations. As our Legal Counsel, you will also help draft new agreements for OEM, VAR, channel relationships, and other agreements as necessary, as well as advise us on general legal matters that arise in the course of operations. Additionally, you will work together with other lawyers to help streamline our legal processes.

Candidates for the US should be fluent in English.  Candidates for our European office should be fluent in English and German. Fluency in other languages (French, Italian) is a plus.

Please send a resume to careers to apply.