Senior Sales Engineering Specialist (Cybersecurity)

Proofpoint; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking a Senior Sales Engineering Specialist to join its People Protection Group. The role involves enhancing customer relationships and supporting sales through technical expertise in email protection solutions. Ideal candidates should have experience in pre-sales roles, strong technical skills, and a collaborative spirit, contributing to a dynamic and diverse team focused on delivering cybersecurity strategies.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation

Comprehensive Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Learning and Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a pre-sales or customer-facing role in high-tech industry.
• Strong affinity to technology and sales.
• Confident presenter with technical capability.

Responsibilities

• Work with field sales teams to develop solutions and hit targets.
• Build consultative relationships and understand customer objectives.
• Present value propositions and technical strategies.

Skills

Relationship Building

Technical Presentation

Sales Acumen

Job description

About Us:
We are the leader in human-centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We’re driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work:
At Proofpoint, you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity, guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate, Responsive to feedback, challenges, and opportunities, Accountable for results and best-in-class outcomes, Visionary in future-focused problem-solving, Exceptional in execution and impact.

Company Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks.

Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Senior Sales Engineering Specialist - Proofpoint People Protection Group (PPG)

As a Senior Sales Engineering Specialist at PPG, specializing in Impersonation Protection solutions (Email Fraud Defense, Secure Email Relay, Supplier Threat Protection Takedown). You will play a substantial role in building and sustaining customer relationships while driving the adoption of these solutions. As a Senior Sales Engineer you will work closely with field sales and extended teams to support the acquisition of new revenue from existing and prospective customers, focusing on the technical alignment of our product and how we address our customers threats. The Senior Sales Engineer role at People Protection Group will be impactful, visible, and rewarding.

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Sales Engineer works hand-in-hand with the field sales teams to develop and deliver customer solutions, supporting the broader Proofpoint sales team to hit sales targets.

• The Senior Sales Engineer seeks to build deep, consultative relationships with their customer, effectively becoming a trusted adviser. The Senior Sales Engineer is ideally positioned to understand the customer's high-level business objectives, and match these to the solutions in the group to satisfy the business and technical requirements.

• The Senior Sales Engineer is comfortable presenting Impersonation Protection’s value proposition, technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to all levels at their customer including executives, technical management, and technical engineers.

• Continuously develop and expand the knowledge of customers' business and mission. Create and present solutions that address customers' needs using the Impersonation Protection products portfolio along with third-party solutions.

• Once an opportunity is identified, the Senior Sales Engineer is a critical member in developing the opportunity and moving it towards closure. Sales Engineers will be responsible for developing expertise delivering the technical competitive intelligence for our sales team.

• Sales Engineers constantly seek to expand their technical expertise and knowledge of Proofpoint’s People Protection technologies, industry direction and trends via enablement and internal training offerings.

• The Senior Sales Engineer will be responsible for enabling the broader Proofpoint Sales Engineers and act as a Specialist and Go to person for everything around Impersonation Protection solutions.

• As a group, Sales Engineers communicate and collaborate with their peers and colleagues on trends, product feedback, customer stories, etc. This will include the creation of technical content and artifacts as well as owning the technical product feedback loop with the product and engineering teams.

Typical Activities will include:

• Building high-level design and architecture drawings

• Technically validating the solution with the customer

• Leading any demonstration or Proof of Value (PoV) activities

• Assisting with the preparation of a proposal, Due Diligence and RFP processes

• Helping the AE develop business cases and ROI/TCO justifications required to get support to drive business forward

• Enablement of the broader Proofpoint Sales Engineers

• Build processes and tools that will allow us to be more efficient and effective running our regular activities

• Has experience as a Specialist SE or Overlay SE

We’d love to meet someone:

• With a strong affinity to technology and sales.

• An enthusiastic self-starter with an outgoing personality, comfortable working both independently and in a team setting.

• A confident presenter with the ability to demonstrate material to audiences with varying levels of technical capability.

• You have been in the high-tech industry for 3 years in a Pre-sales or customer-facing consulting capacity or have other relevant technical experience that demonstrates your relationship building skills.

• Experienced in working with field sales teams and is comfortable with quota driven performance management.

• Throughout your career you have gathered significant industry knowledge and experience but what really sets you apart is your expertise in enterprise applications, security, cloud or systems management is really what sets you apart.

• Your strong customer facing and relationship building skills, coupled with your listening and questions-based selling skills help you see the “big picture” and create amazing experiences for customers.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, andthe people who work here are the key tooursuccess. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products.

We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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Why Proofpoint? At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits

• Learning & Development: We are committed to the growth and development of our team members, offering a range of programs including leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities to help employees reach their full potential.

• Flexible work environment: [Remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.].

• Annual wellness and community outreach days

• Always on recognition for your contributions

• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

Our Culture:

Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [e-mail] . How to Apply Interested? Submit your application here https://www.proofpoint.com/us/company/careers . We can’t wait to hear from you!