Sr. Sales Engineer

ExtraHop’s Sales team is growing! Our platform for Network Security Analytics is a unique and powerful component of Security Operations.  We offer strong comp plans fair quotas and the opportunity to work with other smart hardworking people who are excited about creating the next great systems company in the Security market. If you are at the top of your game have experience building territories are a challenger and can sell innovative next-gen solutions then we want to hear from you.

Duties and Responsibilities

This key position requires someone who is able to learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of ExtraHop’s products and technologies competitive products and industry trends. You are primarily responsible for increasing revenue in assigned regions/territories/districts through identifying recruiting and developing opportunities for generating direct sales or partnerships with resellers.

• Meet and exceed assigned sales targets by closing new accounts and growing revenues

• Identify prospects for ExtraHop products through cold calls and lead follow-up and face-to-face meetings

• Call on senior executives to understand the business decision-making and financing processes of your territory

• Present and demonstrate ExtraHop products to customers

• Provide customer and competitor feedback and field intelligence where available and necessary

• Prepare and implement strategic sales account plans for all customers and identify business growth opportunities in assigned customer base

• Ensure resellers and field sales engineers and management are working together in the sales process lead generation registering opportunities accurately forecasting revenue and tracking to required revenue goals established by their discount tier

• Work with resellers to grow business in your territory

• Prepare and maintain an accurate sales forecast for your territory

• Network in customer and related organizations

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Four-year degree or equivalent in a related discipline (e.g. information technology computer science business or engineering)

• 5 years of experience in technology sales with a consistent track record of exceeding sales targets

• 2 years of cybersecurity or complex SaaS solutions sales experience

• Demonstrated technical acumen to articulate ExtraHop's value proposition in a differentiated and compelling manner

• Strong communication organizational and interpersonal skills

• Proven history of sales success in network/application management or related IT infrastructured solutions

• Demonstrated ability to secure meetings and close deals with senior-level executives

• Solid understanding of enterprise networking technologies: switches routers firewalls load balancers WAN optimization technologies EDR and SIEM

• Strong independent work ethic and experience working in startup culture

• Existing senior level relationships at a wide range of accounts in your assigned territory

• Background in software/hardware sales and distribution with large software hardware and/or networking companies

• Ability to travel