Technical Support & Product Specialist
Job Description
Primary product specialist role delivering technical support, troubleshooting, and customer-facing demos in a strictly on-site environment.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with the sales team on technical product demonstrations, presentations, and customer walkthroughs.
- Serve as the technical representative at industry sales events, trade shows, and conferences (travel required).
- Review customer requirements and recommend product configurations that match business needs.
- Support sales efforts by answering highly technical questions in RFPs.
- Travel to customer sites to oversee product installations, configurations, and complex hands-on troubleshooting.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for complex product, software, or network deployment issues, providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 support.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and network connectivity problems through remote and on-site customer assistance.
- Create and implement test plans, procedures, and validation protocols.
- Run and evaluate functional, performance, reliability, and environmental testing; analyze test data and document detailed results.
- Detect product defects, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with engineering and manufacturing to resolve quality issues.
- Develop and maintain testing documentation, compliance procedures, and user-facing troubleshooting guides.
Requirements
- Practical knowledge of IP routing, subnetting, DHCP, static IP assignments, and MAC address tracking.
- Strong understanding of Wi-Fi authentication types, including WPA2, WPA3, and Enterprise, plus wireless environment setup.
- Proficiency with network diagnostic tools such as ping, ipconfig, and traceroute, including log file analysis.
- Proven troubleshooting approach that isolates variables to determine whether an issue is software, hardware, or related to a customer network environment.
- Ability to communicate deep technical details clearly to non-technical users, sales teams, and corporate buyers.
- Capability to connect technical features to business value to support the sales cycle.
- Skill in resolving critical technical blockages during customer troubleshooting.
- Willingness to travel up to 10-15% of the time for customer sites and industry events.
- Ability to work extended hours when needed to meet customer demands and deadlines.
- Physical ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally (for example, marketing materials or product samples).
- Valid driver’s license and clean driving record.
- Work Location: 100% On-Site at the facility; role is not eligible for remote or hybrid work.
Technologies
- IP routing
- Subnetting
- DHCP
- Static IP assignments
- MAC address tracking
- Wi-Fi authentication types (WPA2, WPA3, Enterprise)
- Ping
- ipconfig
- Traceroute
- Log file analysis
Physical and Travel Requirements
- 100% on-site availability at the facility; not remote or hybrid.
- Travel up to 10-15% of the time to customer sites or industry events.
- Frequent use of standard office equipment and extended periods of sitting, standing, and computer use.
- Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds (for example, marketing materials or product samples).
- Valid driver’s license and clean driving record.
- Ability to work extended hours as required by customer demands and deadlines.
Location: Simi Valley, CA (onsite) • Salary: USD 100,000 - 125,000 per year