Solutions Engineering Manager

The Solutions Engineer Manager (SE Manager) is a senior member of our Solutions Engineering team. Darktrace is currently expanding its technical team to accommodate a rapidly growing customer base and accelerating revenue. This role is a dynamic and varied customer focused technical position. This person will provide leadership to the technical go to market team in pre-sale and post-sales accounts, working together with our Sales leadership to ensure customer needs are met.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Directly manage the day-to-day pre-sales process of the SE organization within Darktrace including:

• Mentorship of AE/SE relationships to handle discovery and customer outcome based qualification.
• Inspect and qualify Proof of Value(POV) criteria to ensure that Darktrace customers are set up for success.  Mentor sales and technical sales teams to ensure timely completion and delivery of value frame works to customer.
• Act as the CTO of the franchise, aligning product knowledge and capabilities to sales and technical sales members.  This includes pursuit and delivery of industry knowledge around all Darktrace competitors, Network and Endpoint Security, Email Security, services and managed services, OT and IOT, etc.
• Ensure responsiveness, ownership and creativity as well as coach and develop individual contributors.
• Hire, develop, inspire and retain a team.
• Interview and provide sales feedback and coaching for AE counterparts when/where applicable

• Align directly with sales leadership to understand and drive impact of sales revenue through forecasting and deal inspection.  Model effective partnership, communication skills and regional account ownership.
• Serve as a customer contact in pre and post sales activities including large deal sponsorship, account team mentoring, and support escalation management when necessary.
• Be able to present as a technical leader in engagements as well as support marketing events/functions, executive dinners, conferences and roadshows accordingly.
• Have or develop relationships within local and Channel Partner(VAR) technical community as well as manage SE team in coordination with Channel Solutions Engineering.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years of experience managing or being a team lead for a regional pre-sales sales engineering team for a software organization
• 5+ years of experience in a sales engineering or solutions engineering role
• Strong knowledge in both on-premise and cloud networking
• Experience within the cyber security industry preferred
• Confident, polished communicator with a proven ability to build lasting, critical business relationships
• Bachelor's or Master's degree 

Benefits:

• 100% medical, dental and vision insurance, plus dependents
• Paid parental leave
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

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