Sophos

Defeat Cyberattacks

Director of Sales Engineering

Sales EngineerSales EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1985H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Texas

Posted

116 days ago

Salary

$178.5K - $297.5K / year

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud Platform

Job Description

• Lead and develop a team of 11 Sales Engineers supporting Midmarket opportunities across the West U.S. region. • Set the technical sales engineering strategy for the region with a focus on scalability, consistency, and operational excellence. • Partner with the Regional Sales Leader to drive joint accountability for technical success across new and existing opportunities. • Ensure technical readiness across the entire team, including proficiency in Sophos endpoint, network, cloud, and MDR offerings. • Actively participate in key customer engagements, serving as an executive technical resource for strategic deals, escalations, and competitive situations. • Drive enablement programs to ensure your team remains current on emerging threats, Sophos technologies, competitive landscape, and industry trends. • Manage performance, retention, and development through coaching, career pathing, and identifying future leadership potential. • Champion automation, process improvement, and best practices across technical evaluations, demonstrations, and POCs. • Collaborate with global Sales Engineering leadership to share and implement best practices across regions. • Partner with Product Management and internal technical teams to provide customer feedback and influence product direction. • Ensure customer satisfaction by resolving escalations, advocating for customer needs, and building strong long-term technical relationships. • Recruit, onboard, and continually enable top talent for the Sales Engineering organization. • Evangelize Sophos technologies externally through events, partner sessions, webinars, and industry engagements.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of people leadership experience managing Sales Engineers or technical presales teams (preferably distributed/remote).
  • 7+ years of technical sales engineering experience in cybersecurity, cloud, networking, or related fields.
  • Strong understanding of: System and network architecture, Endpoint and server security, NGFW and secure network design, Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), EDR/XDR, threat hunting, and incident response concepts
  • Experience supporting Midmarket or Commercial sales teams in high-velocity environments.
  • Proven ability to lead teams in competitive technical evaluations, customer demonstrations, and POCs.
  • Experience developing scalable processes, documentation, and SE enablement programs.
  • Track record of building, coaching, and retaining high-performance engineering teams.
  • Excellent presentation, communication, and executive engagement skills.
  • Comfortable operating cross-functionally with Sales, Product Management, Support, Labs, and Marketing.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Professional certifications (Security+, CISSP, AWS/Azure/GCP certs) a plus.

Benefits

  • Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees.
  • Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
  • Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
  • Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
  • Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
  • Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
  • Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

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