Technical Sales Representative

📍 Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
🕒 Start Date: Immediate
🌐 Languages Required: English & Spanish/German (Fluent)

Are you ready to revolutionize the clean energy space while building a meaningful career?

Join SmartHelio, a Y Combinator-backed deeptech startup headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and help reshape solar energy performance using cutting-edge AI and advanced diagnostics.

SmartHelio is on a mission to make solar energy truly sustainable by reducing energy losses and improving asset reliability. We've been recognized globally, including as a “Best for the World” company by B Corporation. Learn more at www.smarthelio.com.

🚀 About the Role

We are looking for a full-time Technical Sales Representative to join our Swiss office. This role is ideal for a dynamic, early-career professional (aged 25–30) with a technical background in PV or energy engineering who is eager to bridge the gap between innovation and client needs.

You will play a pivotal role in understanding customer challenges in PV asset management and positioning our advanced AI-powered software as the best solution for their needs.

You’ll work closely with our global sales, product, and engineering teams in Switzerland and India.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of SmartHelio’s products and effectively communicate their value to technical and business stakeholders to solve their technical challenges.

• Actively identify and engage potential clients across Europe and Latin America.

• Set up meetings or calls between potential customers.

• Build trusted relationships with technical & commercial stakeholders and manage a pipeline of interested prospects.

• Maintain accurate lead and opportunity records via HubSpot CRM.

• Support the end-to-end sales cycle, from initial contact to signed deal.

✅ Your Profile

• Degree in Electrical, PV, Energy Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Fluent in English and another language (ideally, Spanish or German).

• 1–3 years of experience in technical sales or client-facing roles (internships or projects in renewable energy a preference).

• Entrepreneurial experience and/or worked in startups, and thrive in dynamic, high-ownership environments.

• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Curious, proactive, and driven to create impact in the energy space.

• Willingness to travel across Europe and abroad for client visits or conferences.

💡 Why Join Us

• Salary: CHF 3’500/month + performance-based bonus (signed contracts).

• Possibility for ESOPs

• High growth opportunity

• Work in a mission-driven, fast-paced startup solving real climate challenges.

• Join a global team across Switzerland, India, and the US.

• Gain hands-on exposure to cutting-edge solar technologies and AI.

• Opportunities for career growth and leadership as we scale globally.

• Weekly flexibility for partial remote work.

• Become part of the Swiss startup ecosystem and the international solar energy community.

📩 How to Apply

Send your CV and a short cover letter to:

maxine@smarthelio.com and govinda@smarthelio.com

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