Regional Sales Manager | Houston, Texas

ExtraHop; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits

401k with Employer Match

Hybrid and Remote Work Model

Job summary

ExtraHop is seeking an experienced sales professional for a remote, Houston-area role to protect and empower the connected enterprise through advanced cyber defense solutions. You will drive revenue in assigned territories, recruit opportunities with channel partners, and articulate the value of the Agentic Enterprise to senior decision makers.

You will learn ExtraHop’s vision and technologies to grow logos, expand existing accounts, and collaborate with resellers while traveling up to 50% of

Qualifications

• Five years’ experience in technology sales with a track record of exceeding targets.
• Three years' security sales experience.
• Ability to articulate ExtraHop's value proposition.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Deep understanding of the modern SOC landscape, Agentic SOC and run-time asset visibility.
• Proven ability to sell NDR or complex security solutions.
• Ability to articulate AI risks and governance across the AI estate.
• Experience mapping sales strategy to business outcomes like ROI and MTTR improvements.
• Existing senior-level relationships with enterprise accounts.
• Background in software/hardware sales with large firms.
• Willingness to travel ≥50% and work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed sales targets by closing new accounts and growing revenues.
• Identify prospects via cold calls and face-to-face meetings.
• Align with executives to understand business decisions and financing.
• Present and demonstrate ExtraHop products to customers.
• Provide customer and competitor feedback to inform strategy.
• Explain the value of the Agentic Enterprise to drive security outcomes.
• Help customers transition to proactive, autonomous SOC workflows.
• Sell visibility across the AI estate, including model interactions.
• Position ExtraHop as the source of truth for analysts and AI agents.
• Identify opportunities to counter AI-powered threats.
• Develop strategic sales account plans and growth opportunities.
• Coordinate with resellers and SEs; forecast revenue accurately.
• Network in customer organizations.

Skills

Tech sales experience

Security sales

Technical acumen

Communication

SOC knowledge

NDR sales

AI risk awareness

Sales strategy

Executive engagement

Networking knowledge

Enterprise relationships

Software/hardware sales

Travel readiness

Education

Four-year degree or equivalent

Job description

At ExtraHop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.

Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Location:

The position is remote, but only candidates living in the Houston, TX area will be considered. ExtraHop does not offer relocation assistance.

Position Summary

ExtraHop is redefining cyber defense for the AI era. As an innovator and leader, we help organizations secure the transition to the "Agentic Enterprise" by defending against AI-powered attacks while delivering full visibility across their AI estate. We turn the network into "Decision-Grade Intelligence"—the high-fidelity context that enables security teams to detect threats, investigate faster, and respond at machine speed. If you are an experienced sales professional who thrives in the security market and can help customers navigate the transition to an Agentic SOC, we want to hear from you.

This key position requires someone who is able to learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of ExtraHop’s vision, products and technologies, and industry trends. You are primarily responsible for maintaining and increasing revenue in assigned regions/territories through identifying, recruiting and developing opportunity for generating net new logos with our channel and alliance partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed assigned sales targets by closing new accounts and growing revenues in existing customer installations
• Identify prospects for ExtraHop products through cold calls, and lead follow-up and face-to-face meetings
• Align with senior executives to understand the business, decision-making, and financing processes of your territory; ability to align ExtraHop leadership with correct decision makers
• Present and demonstrate ExtraHop products to customers
• Provide customer and competitor feedback and field intelligence where available and necessary
• Articulate the value of the 'Agentic Enterprise' and the need for decision-grade intelligence to drive security outcomes.
• Help customers transition from reactive, disconnected alerts to proactive, autonomous workflows within their SOC.
• Sell the platform's unique ability to provide visibility across the entire AI estate, including traffic patterns and AI-model interactions.
• Demonstrate how ExtraHop serves as the foundational 'source of truth' for both human analysts and autonomous AI agents.
• Identify opportunities to solve for modern threats, including AI-powered attacks, identity-based attacks, and shadow AI usage.
• Prepare and implement strategic sales account plans for all customers and identify business growth opportunities in assigned customer base
• Ensure resellers and field sales engineers and management are working together in the sales process, lead generation, registering opportunities, accurately forecasting revenue, and tracking torequiredrevenue goals established by their discount tier
• Work with resellers to grow business in your territory
• Prepare and maintain an accurate sales forecast for your territory
• Network in customer and related organizations

Required Qualifications

• Four-year degree or equivalent in a related discipline (e.g., information technology, computer science, business, or engineering)
• Five years’ experience in technology sales with a consistent track record of exceeding sales targets
• Three years' security sales experience
• Demonstrated technical acumen to articulate ExtraHop's value proposition in a differentiated and compelling manner
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Deep understanding of the modern SOC landscape, specifically the shift toward Agentic SOC and the need for run-time asset visibility.
• Proven ability to sell NDR or complex security solutions that integrate across existing infrastructure.
• Ability to articulate the risks associated with AI adoption and the importance of visibility and governance across the AI estate.
• Experience mapping sales strategy to business outcomes like reduced mean time to detect/respond and improved security ROI.
• Strong AI skills, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to secure meetings and close deals with senior level executives
• Solid understanding of enterprise networking technologies: switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, WAN optimization technologies, and so forth is a plus
• Existing senior level relationships at a wide range of enterprise accounts in your assigned territory
• Background in software/hardware sales and distribution with large software, hardware, and/or networking companies
• Ability to travel at least 50% of the time, with day to day job on the road but works remotely.
• Work cooperatively with others within the organization and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work well in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
• Has predictable, reliable attendance.

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000, depending on experience, with a 50/50 split + benefits.

ABOUT EXTRAHOP

ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.

This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.

OUR VALUES

Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.

Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.

Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.

Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.

Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.

BENEFITS

Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
• Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan
• FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP, where applicable
• Educational Reimbursement
• 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable
• Pet Insurance (US Only)
• Parental Leave (US Only)
• Hybrid and Remote Work Model

Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against cyber criminals. Join the fight today!

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