Sr. Sales Engineer

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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.

The Role

The members of our Sales Engineering team are highly valued business partners that play a critical role in our sales process every single day.
 

As a Senior Sales Engineer working with Enterprise accounts, you will be one of the most important members of the Proofpoint sales team. After initial onboarding and regular product training, you will become a trusted advisor to our Account Managers in region, as well as our current and future customers. As a technical liaison and subject matter expert on all things Proofpoint, you will help to deliver People-Centric solutions that protect against today’s cyber threats. 
 

You will get to develop and tell a compelling story that will excite your customer and have them eager to hear more. Your story may include onsite product demonstrations, white-boarding sessions, mini-trainings, lunch-n-learns, threat assessments and production evaluations, all in pursuit of providing a solution to your customer that you will take pride in being a part of. It’s an exciting time to be at Proofpoint! 

Your day-to-day

• You will act as the Technical Sales Lead throughout the pre-sales process

• Collaborate with the sales team to develop and execute targeted account penetration strategies 

• Design and champion complex People-Centric Security solutions encompassing the entire Proofpoint portfolio 

• Provide valuable customer insight and real-world experiences to Product Management, Marketing and Product Development (Engineering) teams to help keep our solutions the best in the industry 

• Present at or attend industry seminars and/or trade shows when required

• You will become an expert in Email Security, Advanced Persistent Threats, Attack Protection, Threat Response, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and the threat landscape 

What you bring to the team

• Proven hands-on experience in a customer facing role, either as a Sales/Systems Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Security Engineer or senior level product support, preferably in the cyber-security industry 

• Proven experience in either secure messaging, data security, network security, endpoint, NOC/SOC or MSP-related cybersecurity 

• Track record developing and maintaining customer relationships with large (Enterprise) clients/organizations 

• Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting to individuals and/or teams including technical staff and C-suite executives 

• You can work independently, adapt quickly and maintain a positive attitude

• Language fluency in Arabic and English is required

• Exposure to at least two of the following skill sets are recommended: 

  • Enterprise email solutions such as Exchange, G-Suite, Lotus Domino, O365 or working knowledge of SMTP

  • Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) 

  • Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) Protection

  • IT security, vulnerability or risk assessments, and policy enforcement 

  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP), compliance and data privacy 

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation 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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