Senior Pre-Sales Leader — Cyber Defense & CrowdStrike

Accenture; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 338,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is expanding its CrowdStrike practice in California to help clients modernize security postures using Falcon platform across EDR, NG-SIEM, and cloud. You will partner with clients' security teams to translate technical capabilities into business value and deliver compelling demonstrations.

This role requires deep pre-sales and delivery experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to travel up to 100%.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a pre-sales, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical delivery role within the cybersecurity industry.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform (endpoint protection, EDR, or adjacent modules), either in a vendor, partner, or customer capacity
• Minimum 7 years demonstrated experience leading technical client conversations at the CISO, security architect, or SOC lead level
• Minimum 5 years experience with at least two of the following: SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Elastic, Sentinel, Chronicle), endpoint security, identity threat detection, cloud security posture management, or vulnerability/exposure management
• Minimum 7 years experience with enterprise security architectures, including identity infrastructure, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), OT/ICS environments, or hybrid data center
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sales engagements with deep platform knowledge and experience in hands-on delivery of CrowdStrike Falcon implementations for enterprise clients.
• Support client security teams to map Falcon capabilities to business outcomes.
• Develop solution proposals, architecture diagrams, and BVAs.
• Collaborate with Accenture CrowdStrike team to accelerate opportunity pipeline.
• Travel 0–100% as required.

Skills

Executive communication

Pre-sales experience

Security architecture leadership

CISO engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon platform

Splunk

QRadar

Elastic

Sentinel

Chronicle

Qualys

Tenable

Rapid7

Job description

Accenture is expanding its CrowdStrike practice in California to help clients modernize security postures using Falcon platform across EDR, NG-SIEM, and cloud. You will partner with clients' security teams to translate technical capabilities into business value and deliver compelling demonstrations.

This role requires deep pre-sales and delivery experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to travel up to 100%.