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Who do we work with?
  • Field sellers
  • Pre-sales/ sales engineers
  • Sales leadership
What does it cost?

It costs nothing to join our network! We charge employers when they hire people through Crux

What is your matching process?

We allow everyone in our network to build a profile on Crux for free. This includes the opportunity to take various assessments proactively, and build in depth profiles on experience and career aspirations. When candidates are a strong fit for a role we are representing, we utilize in depth interviews and reference checks to round out perspective and match people with opportunities that are the right fit for them.

How much experience do I need to have in cybersecurity?

If you are looking to break into cybersecurity sales, you are welcome to join the platform and contribute to the community. However, we only place experienced sales talent with a track record in this industry

Recent Jobs

Managing Director Americas Head of Information Security
BNP Paribas
State
New Jersey
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On-site
Seniority
Executive
Domain
Cross-domain/ leadership
Salary ($K)
290.00
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Chief Information Security Officer
Trupanion
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Washington
Remote Elig.
Hybrid
Seniority
Executive
Domain
Cross-domain/ leadership
Salary ($K)
200.00
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Deputy CISO
New Relic
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Oregon
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Hybrid
Seniority
Executive
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202.00
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On-site
State
Virginia
Remote Elig.
On-site
Not disclosed
Seniority
Experienced
Domain
Sales
Salary ($K)
158
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255
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158

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

  • Responsible for meeting and exceeding assigned pipeline and bookings quota MBOs
  • Work closely with the Senior Management and Sales Account Team to provide relevant analysis/market information and strategic recommendations to result in a bid/no-bid decision
  • Monitor relevant bid-boards to help find and track new and existing opportunities
  • Ensure Business Development Program Capture pipeline is aligned with the associated Sales Director’s priorities perform in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment
  • Lead pursuit team in developing and substantiating a winning value proposition that meets the needs of the customer, including analyzing critical business drivers and risks
  • Prepare and provide information and decision briefings for senior management
  • Responsible for validating/endorsing the technical solution in close partnership with the Solution Architect and/or sales engineering team
  • Coordinates with the Programs team to assure that solution design can be properly delivered
  • Develop a timeline and ensures that we meet key deal milestones and deadlines
  • Post-award lead handoff process to transition a contract to the Programs team to lead
  • Become an expert in your domain, develop appropriate technical expertise, understand the value to the mission, ghost the competition, and use passion and conviction to win
  • Work with Product Managers, Sales Engineering, Sales Operations, Legal and other resources to close complex opportunities - must work well in a team environment
  • Partner with key business units and their leadership in developing winning value propositions, sales strategies, and gathering customer feedback
  • Incubate and pioneer sales GTM approaches and develop them into a repeatable process for our sales force and partner community
  • Engage with senior decision-makers and influencers internally and within the accounts supported - must be comfortable and credible in executive conversations

Required Qualifications

  • Experience Identifying and Closing Large Program Captures
  • Proven ability to articulate compelling, business outcome-focused, value propositions
  • Proven program management skills and able to demonstrate leadership capabilities
  • Experience working with Channel and Alliance teams
  • Demonstrated success in the development and capture of large government programs
  • Adept at negotiating and establishing teaming arrangements/agreements
  • Cross-functional influence, relationship building, and project management skills toward a broad constituency ranging from customers, channel partners, sales, marketing, and technical management
  • Strong business acumen and negotiation abilities
  • Willing to take a leadership role in driving initiatives, working across organizations, and structuring approaches to new opportunities
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required
  • Security clearance is required

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with a broad range of application, security and infrastructure software is desirable
  • Strategic thinking and planning skills - demonstrated effectiveness in conducting market analysis, prioritizing investments, and measuring growth in territory and quota is preferred
  • Direct selling expertise, ‘hunter’ mentality is a plus
  • A solid presenter who is confident and able to sell ideas to internal and external stakeholders is desired
  • Established contacts and intimate knowledge of the IC Market is desired

Additional Information

The Team

Our sales team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients in their journey to security.

As part of our sales team, you are empowered with unmatched systems and tools, constantly updated research and sales libraries, and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our sales team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredibly complex cyberthreats.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $158000 - $255000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected]

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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On-site
State
Remote
Remote Elig.
On-site
Not disclosed
Seniority
Senior
Domain
Sales
Salary ($K)
154
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230
Not disclosed
154

Summary Information about the Role:

The Solutions Engineer (SE) is a sales and technical role with focus on customer/partners and is part of the XC Specialist sales organization. The SE’s primary responsibility is to support the sales team with technical skills and provide technical knowledge around F5 Distributed cloud to our customers. To be effective, a Specialist SE needs to have excellent technical skills and knowledge on both F5 products and the “eco-system” that we work in. Fear not, we do provide training and certification to keep abreast with these critical skills!

The high-level objective is to achieve the allocated sales target and selling F5 Distributed Cloud solutions to address our customers business needs, in partnership with the Specialist Sales Account Manager. From our customers’ perspectives, the SE is a trusted adviser who proactively learns and understands their technical and business challenges and proposes effective solutions to address their concerns. The F5 SE presents the technical capabilities and importantly the business benefits in the technical value proposition.

Company Overview:

F5 technologies are at the heart of modern applications that are enabling digital transformation across the globe. We give the world’s largest businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands the ability to securely deliver every app, anywhere—with confidence. We do this by working collaboratively in an innovative environment, helping each other succeed. We take great pride in being trusted advisers to our customers, offering the best solutions for their interests. If our mission and culture excite you, we would love to talk with you!

  • Articulate the F5 product strategy, messaging, and positioning F5 Distributed Cloud's value proposition and solutions for customer business objectives
  • Provide technical expertise through sales presentations, solution designs, solution demonstrations, proofs of concept by various mediums: in-person, virtual presentations, white boarding etc.
  • Determine viability of opportunity and map out organizational structure.
  • Drive the sales process in partnership with the Account Manager, by identifying the Technical Decision Maker, getting their technical validation, support, and sponsorship.
  • Consistently provide world-class customer service through the customer life cycle.
  • Work collaboratively with internal technical and sales resources, share best practices, updates, offer and seek expertise as the need arises in various opportunities.

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience in secure Cloud architectures in: AWS, Azure, GCP or other public clouds
  • CI/CD experience (automate build and test pipelines with GitOps, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Experience with multi-cloud design
  • Experience with cloud instrumentation and configuration management tools for deployment such as GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog and Grafana
  • Experience in software development in Go, Python, Ruby, scripting, languages
  • 8 + years of related industry experience
  • BS/BA or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity/experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment a plus
  • Relevant certifications a plus

When applying for any of the roles in F5, please note, our ideal candidate is not necessarily someone who meets all the posted requirements. In fact, this is just a representative of how we know the job has been done in the past. We would love to talk to you even if you don’t check all the boxes here, but believe you bring your own unique capabilities that can be utilized to ensure the success of the role and the organization.

Sound interesting? Read on!

The nature of the role could require travel up to 50% of the time, and working across time zones. This is a self-driven role, so career growth and development is available at every stage of your career.

Competitive pay, family friendly benefits, and cool perks

Tuition assistance for professional development

Culture of giving back, strong diversity and inclusion interest groups

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $153,526.00 - $230,288.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

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On-site
State
California
Remote Elig.
On-site
Not disclosed
Seniority
Entry
Domain
Sales
Salary ($K)
88
-
117
Not disclosed
88

The Role & The Team:

This is an opportunity to be an influential member of a high performing sales team at a fast-growing SaaS company. As an SDR you’ll work closely with our sales and marketing teams to drive new business by evangelizing Druva’s technology to prospective customers. You will be responsible for making outbound calls to target prospective accounts and generating qualified business opportunities.

Company Overview:

Druva, the autonomous data security company, puts data security on autopilot with a 100% SaaS, fully managed platform to secure and recover data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud ensures the availability, confidentiality, and fidelity of data - providing customers with autonomous protection, rapid incident response, and guaranteed data recovery. The company is trusted by its more than 6,000 customers, including 65 of the Fortune 500, to defend business data in today’s ever-connected world. Amidst a rapidly evolving security landscape, Druva offers a $10 million Data Resiliency Guarantee ensuring customer data is protected and secured against every cyber threat. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.

  • Generate new sales leads through a mixture of outbound phone and email prospecting, following up on marketing campaigns and inbound inquiries
  • Schedule meetings and product demos for Account Executives
  • Manage inbound leads process to maximize conversion and pipeline development
  • Understand Druva’s offerings and competitive positioning to effectively communicate and apply them to a prospects needs
  • Accurately enter, update, and maintain daily activity and prospect information in Salesforce.com
  • Achieve and exceed monthly quotas and objectives

Required Qualifications:

  • Ability to articulate technical capabilities in terms of business value
  • A strong desire to learn a comprehensive software sales process
  • Strong sense of urgency and motivation to meet and exceed aggressive goals
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Hard working, competitive, professional and comfortable taking direction and feedback

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 1+ years of prior Sales experience a plus
  • Experience in technology solutions, cloud and SaaS preferred
  • Experience with tools such as SFDC, CL, Salesloft, Linkedin, Zoom, etc. nice to have

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $88,000 and $117,333/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized, non-discriminatory factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, and equity. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

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