Location Requirement: Preference for candidates to reside in Chicago Metro Area
You will serve as the technical lead for the sales team, focusing on solving complex security challenges for prospective customers across one of our NorthCentral Regions. The mission of this role is to drive successful product evaluations and provide expert technical guidance to secure new business within the regional market. You will bridge the gap between technical functionality and strategic business value to ensure high customer satisfaction and deal closure.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical pre-sales cycle by executing product demonstrations and managing proof-of-value (POV) engagements to meet customer success criteria.
- Conduct discovery meetings and research the competitive landscape to architect technical solutions that address specific customer security and infrastructure gaps.
- Develop account-based penetration strategies and sales objectives in collaboration with sales executives to secure contracts with Fortune 500 companies.
- Provide ongoing technical training on platform integrations and security principles to internal sales executives and external channel partners.
- Expected travel a minimum of 40%
Minimum Qualifications
- Multiple years of professional experience specifically in a Sales Engineering role within the software industry.
- Experience delivering technical presentations and product demonstrations to both C-suite executives and end-user technical teams.
- Technical background in internet security principles, including networking topology, TCP/IP protocols, firewalls, and routers.
- Professional experience selling software solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with endpoint security technologies such as AV, EDR, and Next-gen AV.
- Working knowledge of cloud security principles and vulnerability management frameworks.
- Experience using or implementing APIs within a security infrastructure.
- Proficiency with scripting languages, specifically Python, for technical solutioning.
- Technical understanding of application-layer protocols including HTTP and SMTP.
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Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate’s salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options and attractive benefits.
About Axonius:
Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.
Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.
Axonius makes it a priority to invest in our people with competitive compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, community-building, and so much more. Learn more about benefits at Axonius.
At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
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