
Mid-Market Sales Engineer – Southwest
Abnormal Security
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $133,910 - $157,500 per year
About the role
- Serve as the technical authority and primary technical decision partner in enterprise sales cycles, from discovery through close, including full ownership of Proof of Value (POV) success criteria and outcomes
- Lead architecture-level conversations with security, email, and identity teams
- Run technical discovery that uncovers risk, not just requirements
- Conduct technical and competitive landscape research to effectively address customer questions and objections
- Confidently answer architecture-level and modern threat questions without deferring to Product or Engineering
- Articulate why legacy secure email gateways fail against social engineering and identity-based attacks
- Educate sales executives and partners on Abnormal Security’s products, platform, and security posture
- Obsessively drive customer satisfaction and successful business outcomes
Requirements
- 3+ years of Sales Engineering experience OR relevant industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discovery and architecture discussions with security, infrastructure, identity and compliance teams
- Strong technical presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to see and present the “big picture,” uncover complex business challenges, and architect solutions to solve customer needs
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-impact sales environment
- Positive attitude, strong customer focus, and a high sense of ownership over customer results
- Solid technical understanding of SaaS security models including multi-tenant cloud environments
- Working knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, and enterprise networking concepts as they relate to email and SaaS security
Benefits
- bonuses
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Sales Engineeringtechnical discoveryarchitecture discussionsSaaS security modelsmulti-tenant cloud environmentsDNSTCP/IPTLSenterprise networking concepts
Soft skills
technical presentation skillscommunication skillsindependent workcustomer focusownershippositive attitudeproblem-solvingbig picture thinking