Senior Sales Engineer

at Proofpoint in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!

We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Corporate 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.

Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint

Sales Engineering at Proofpoint People Protection Group (PPG)

As a Sales Engineer at PPG, specializing in Adaptive Email Products (Security, Misdirected and Exfiltration) you will play a substantial role in building and sustaining customer relationships while driving the adoption of Adaptive Email solutions. As a Sales Engineer you will work closely with commercial and extended teams to support the acquisition of new revenue from existing and prospective customers, focusing on technical alignment of our product and how we address our customers threats. The Sales Engineer role at People Protection Group will be impactful, visible, and rewarding.

Responsibilities:

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

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

+ The Sales Engineer is comfortable presenting Adaptive Email’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 Adaptive Email portfolio along with third-party solutions.

+ Once an opportunity is identified, the 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 Adaptive Email technologies, industry direction and trends via enablement and internal training offerings.

+ The Sales Engineer will be responsible on enabling the broader Proofpoint Sales Engineers and act as a Specialist and Go to person for everything around Adaptive Email 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

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 commercial 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.

Candidates should be located in either the Central or Eastern time zone.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. 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! #LifeAtPFPT

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

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