Recruit and hire new Domain Consultants into the team, hiring the best talent in the industry
Work with your peers to develop a Domain Consultant training curriculum
Mentor, train, and review employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
Develop relationships with the Solutions Consultant Managers and their teams to ensure full technology coverage in key opportunities
Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions, including sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
Provide Domain Consultant expertise and fill in for existing team members if there is a resource conflict or vacation coverage challenge
Innovate and iterate to drive high technical validation and PoC win rates for Network Security solutions, while reducing technical validation and PoC timelines
Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO
Lead conversations focused on industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
Discuss competitor offerings in the marketplace and positions ours as the best solution
Support your team in documenting HLD (High-Level Design) and key use cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
Review and guide your team’s technical validation plans including POV (proof of value) test plans and customer readiness/requirements
Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
Act as an escalation point for pre-sales and collaborate with post-sales teams for issues that arise
Work with product teams to build requirements and roadmap development plans for our network security customers
Maintain a general understanding of competitor selling strategies.
Requirements
Experience leading customer-facing Sales Engineering or Solutions Architect teams in cybersecurity; proven history of surpassing sales targets
Experience in sales engineering within Zero Trust, Networking, Network Security, SaaS Security or SSE/SASE; leading complex customer engagements end-to-end
Deep domain expertise in Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, Network Security, SaaS Security, and Enterprise Browser
Experience working cross-functionally with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and translate field needs into scalable solutions
Strong executive presence; experience engaging and influencing C-level stakeholders
Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric go to market approach
Track record of building, scaling, and operating high-performing distributed teams (EMEA experience preferred)
Ability to create and drive repeatable methodologies, playbooks, and tools to improve field effectiveness
English language proficiency is required; strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.