CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, dedicated to stopping breaches and redefining modern security with their AI-native platform. The Sales Engineer will be responsible for managing technical relationships with prospective customers and providing technical insights throughout the sales cycle.
Responsibilities:
- As a Sales Engineer, you’ll be the face of NG-SIEM for prospective customers. Working alongside our sales team, you’ll take ownership of the technical relationship through the sales cycle
- You’ll also maintain that relationship with the customer as they discover what NG-SIEM can do for them, expand their use, and provide feedback to our Product Management team
- You’ll become a trusted advisor by providing technical value in your interactions with prospective customers, answering technical questions, demonstrating capabilities, and laying out a technical vision of NG-SIEM
- You’ll be working closely with the teams in sales, leadership, marketing, support, customer success, and engineering. In particular, you’ll be a critical part of the sales team; providing feedback on deal progress, uncovering the wants and needs of prospects, and translating that to tangible value from the NG-SIEM platform, ultimately bringing more customers to CrowdStrike
- In addition to guiding prospective customers through their discovery of NG-SIEM, you’ll also play an integral part in defining and executing on our go-to-market strategy - exploring new use cases, integrations, partnerships, etc. In other words, your success in this role will have a significant impact on the expansion of NG-SIEM worldwide
Requirements:
- 2 years experience with log management, SIEM, and XDR
- Ability to adapt, thrive and excel in a fast-moving, nimble environment
- Comfortable in a team selling environment, working in close collaboration with peers in the CrowdStrike sales organization
- Consultative sales approach – ability to challenge companies/businesses to think differently
- Strength in evangelizing technology and new account acquisition (hunting)
- Highly motivated and professional, with excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Outstanding organizational skills with the attested ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks to meet deadlines
- Self-starter able to work independently but also team oriented
- Excellent problem resolution skills – resourceful and constructive
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes
- Comfortable with Linux and Windows troubleshooting
- Familiar with data ingestion formats, programming languages, cloud concepts, and orchestration tools
- Experience with distributed data stores, data shipping services, cloud providers, SSO concepts, and container orchestration such as Kubernetes
- Participation in one or more of the common sales processes such as MEDDPICC, Challenger Selling, or Value Selling in a presales or architect role