Enterprise Sales Engineer (Missouri Valley)

Abnormal AI is seeking an Enterprise Sales Engineer to join their growing Sales Engineering team. In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to security, email, and identity teams, conducting product demonstrations and leading technical discussions to drive successful outcomes for Enterprise-scale Proof of Value programs.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical authority and primary technical decision partner in enterprise sales cycles, from discovery through close, including full ownership of Proof of Value (POV) success criteria and outcomes
• Lead architecture-level conversations with security, email, and identity teams
• Run technical discovery that uncovers risk, not just requirements
• Conduct technical and competitive landscape research to effectively address customer questions and objections
• Confidently answer architecture-level and modern threat questions without deferring to Product or Engineering
• Articulate why legacy secure email gateways fail against social engineering and identity-based attacks
• Educate sales executives and partners on Abnormal AI’s products, platform, and security posture
• Obsessively drive customer satisfaction and successful Enterprise outcomes

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Sales Engineering experience OR relevant industry experience
• Reside in territory (St. Louis or Kansas City)
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical discovery and architecture discussions with security, infrastructure, identity and compliance teams
• Strong technical presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to see and present the 'big picture,' uncover complex business challenges, and architect solutions to solve customer needs
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-impact Enterprise sales environment
• Positive attitude, strong customer focus, and a high sense of ownership over customer results
• Solid technical understanding of SaaS security models including multi-tenant cloud environments
• Working knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, and enterprise networking concepts as they relate to email and SaaS security
• Experience with enterprise email security platforms (Proofpoint, Mimecast, Cisco, Barracuda, etc.)
• Technical background in messaging and internet security principles
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Exchange Online / Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
• Strong understanding of SMTP mail flow, MX records and mail routing
• Working knowledge of email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and common failure modes
• Strong understanding of Cloud SaaS infrastructure including identity services such as Azure AD / Entra ID / Google Identity
• Ability to explain identity-driven and modern social engineering attacks and controls at an architectural level
• Experience integrating SaaS platforms via OAuth and REST APIs
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel) and SOC workflows
• Experience working with or alongside SOC incident response teams including creating incident response workflows
• Security certifications (CISSP, CEH, or equivalent) for credibility with enterprise buyers