Senior Sales Engineer – North Central

Chicago, IL
December 18, 2024
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Job Description

Who We Are

Red Canary was founded to create a world where every organization can make its greatest impact without fear of cyber threats. We’re a cyber security company who protects, supports and empowers organizations to make better security decisions so they can focus on their mission without fear of cyber threats.

The combination of our market-defining technology and expertise prevents breaches every day and sets a new standard for partnership in the industry. We’re united in our commitment to customers and grounded in our values, which earned us a place on the Forbes Best Start-up Employers 2022 list. If our mission resonates with you, let’s talk.

What We Believe In

– Do what’s right for the customer

– Be kind and authentic

– Deliver great quality

– Be relentless

Challenges You Will Solve

A Sales Engineer understands that while prospective customers share many characteristics, each is unique and requires a carefully constructed solution to help them achieve their specific security goals. We are looking for a sales engineer who is able to discern where a customer is on their security maturity journey and assess whether or not the Red Canary solution fits into their current project plans and organizational needs. 

You will be a great fit for this role if you are ecstatic about the opportunity to guide prospects through the customer journey and evangelize the Red Canary solution. In this position you will have the opportunity to creatively identify opportunities for improvement and take the reins on implementing solutions. 

Much of your day-to-day work consists of pre-sales interactions as you support a team of Account Executives during presentations and proof of concepts. While not directly supporting your team, your time will be focused on a variety of project work and ad-hoc requests. Project work may include performing product research-and-development, maturing current functional processes and writing and refactoring scripts.

What You’ll Do

  • Serve as technical expert working alongside Account Executives throughout the entire sales cycle
  • Create and deliver custom presentations/demos that capture the problems, solutions, and overall progress throughout the proof-of-concept journey
  • Facilitate interactive, informative, and tailored proof-of-concepts
  • Maintain a big picture view of the solution, understanding not only the technology but how the solution fits into the overall business problem of prospects that Red Canary is solving
  • Willingly push back on customers when it is in their best interest; comfortable with difficult conversations 
  • Listen first and are adept at working across internal and external teams with competing priorities
  • Focus on the needs of prospects and be their internal advocate, looking for and are excited about forging a path forward when none exists
  • Demonstrate a firm understanding of primary security tenants including: confidentiality, integrity, availability, role-based access control, segmentation, etc.
  • Familiarity with fundamental cloud infrastructure concepts: virtual private clouds (VPS), compute, elasticity, and the storage, processing, and securing of data

What You’ll Bring

  • 6+ years customer facing sales engineering experience
  • Knowledge of security industry, including competitors, market needs and trends
  • Technical knowledge of networking and endpoint security concepts
  • Demonstrate a firm understanding of primary security tenants including: confidentiality, integrity, availability, role-based access control, segmentation, etc.
  • Familiarity with fundamental cloud infrastructure concepts: virtual private clouds (VPS), compute, elasticity, and the storage, processing, and securing of data
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and work collaboratively in a rapidly growing and changing organization 
  • Strong presentation, verbal communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working with day-to-day technical practitioners as well as those at C-Level
  • Understanding of key sales activities
  • Skilled with Windows and Linux command-line and are comfortable with configuring systems, troubleshooting, and interacting with scripts or have experience with scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, Ruby, etc.
  • Practical knowledge of enterprise endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions including the ability to administer and configure EDRs, understand metadata and its value in delivering visibility to organizations and are driven to proactively hunt through large endpoint datasets in order to find activity of interest

Candidates can be located in or around Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, or Omaha.

Compensation range is $126,562 – $156,000 base, plus commission for an estimated on-target earnings of $168,750- $208,000 OTE, plus equity.

Application Deadline: December 20, 2024

Why Red Canary?

Red Canary is where people embody our mission to improve security outcomes for all. People work hard to maintain a culture that encourages authenticity in order to do your best work. Our people are driven and committed to finding the best security outcomes, delivering real and actionable answers, and being transparent along the way. 

At Red Canary, we offer a very rich benefits program to our full-time team members so they can focus on their families and improving our customers’ security. For a full list of benefits, please review our Benefits Summary:

https://resource.redcanary.com/rs/003-YRU-314/images/RedCanary_2024BenefitsSummary.pdf?version=0

Individuals seeking employment at Red Canary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.