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: