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Cymulate’s Continuous Security Validation enables companies to challenge, assess and optimize their cyber-security posture against the evolving cyberthreat landscape, simply and continuously.

With world-class clients like YMCA, Brinks, and EuroNext we strive to bring the highest level of service to everything we do. Our team is made up of the very best people for the job and as we grow, we’re always on the lookout for people with the skills, experience, and personality that will let us both shine. With high scores on Gartner and Glassdoor, our clients and employees have let us know what they love about us.

• Prospect new business opportunities into mid-market and enterprise accounts
• Consistently meet or exceed sales quota
• Accurately forecast revenue for the defined territory
• Develop channel partner relationships, conduct account mapping, and participate in channel and field marketing events
• Maintain customer trust by account management through renewal process
• Call into accounts to identify opportunities, lead discovery calls, coordinate demonstrations, and negotiate deals to closed status
• Develop territory plan and work effectively with team members within the assigned territory, including marketing, channel, and Sales Engineers
• Accurately track opportunities in CRM (Salesforce)

Required Qualifications:

• At least 7-10 years of competitive selling cyber security solutions
• Demonstrated ability to run sales campaigns in a hunting and prospecting capacity
• Proven track record of consistently achieving quota in IT, cyber security and/or SaaS solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Self-motivated, team player, and leads with integrity

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Salesforce and Outreach and sales engagement tools

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Location: North Carolina

Onwards Together!

Illumio, the pioneer and market leader of Zero Trust segmentation, prevents breaches from becoming cyber disasters. Illumio protects critical applications and valuable digital assets with proven segmentation technology purpose-built for the Zero Trust security model. Illumio ransomware mitigation and segmentation solutions see risk, isolate attacks, and secure data across cloud-native apps, hybrid and multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints, enabling the world’s leading organizations to strengthen their cyber resiliency and reduce risk.

Illuminate the future with Illumio and join a team that’s passionate about developing cutting-edge security solutions that protect the world's most critical assets.

Our Team's Vision:

Our Regional Sales Directors are the driving force behind our success, actively seeking and securing new business opportunities with a keen focus on Fortune 250 prospects through a named accounts approach. They excel in navigating large enterprise deals ranging from $500k to over $1M, both through direct sales and strategic partnerships within our ecosystem.

We're seeking adaptable individuals who thrive on exceeding goals year after year. Joining our Sales team means collaborating with top-tier professionals who are passionate about pioneering Zero Trust Segmentation. Together, we're assembling a world-class global team united by one mission: to combat ransomware and breaches head-on.

• Serve as the front-line leader in the Illumio field organization, finding and creating new sales opportunities within our target accounts and leading a virtual team of Illumio people and external partners to win those opportunities
• Create and execute a territory plan on your target accounts and approach to “landing and expanding," and prospect into these target accounts with the goal of engaging potential champions and sponsors to find and create an opportunity
• Able to drive a regional sales plan that incorporates tight collaboration between ADRs, partner account managers, customer success advisors and extended field team resources.
• Accurately forecast the business objectives of your clients and Illumio
• Identify, engage, and build relationships with resellers, system integrators and other partners

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of full cycle sales enterprise selling with strong background in security and or networking software, including 5+ years of co-selling experience with a strong partner network
• Deliver compelling “teaching conversations” that are well tailored to each prospect’s situation
• Able to engage with urgency and capitalizing on all potential channels to sell Illumio
• Knows how to ask the right questions, strong listener and technically savvy to understand the solution
• Successful track record of successful selling to the C-suite (all lines of business) with a strong rolodex of contacts in region
• Experience in a fast-paced company with the ability to adapt as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience being the first in a region, comfortable with building from scratch

No Agency Submissions Accepted.

Our Commitment:

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.

Compensation:

$150,000 USD - $180,000 USD

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.

At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program.

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!

• Act as a SASE subject matter expert, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and training to channel partners on Palo Alto Networks SASE solutions
• Collaborate with sales and technical teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies that align with our SASE product roadmap
• Lead technical presentations, demos, and workshops to channel partners to drive adoption and understanding of SASE technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on partner needs and product enhancements
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, security threats, and networking developments to provide partner with the latest knowledge and best practices in the SASE ecosystem
• Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a successful pre-sales SE, systems integrator, or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of networking required; understanding of network security preferred
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role - prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
• Prior experience working with channel is required, prior experience as a Channel SE preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling, implementing, or managing SASE/SaaS/cloud/managed/on-prem offerings is a plus
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions is preferred
• Previous experience selling, implementing, or managing SaaS offerings is preferred
• Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions is preferred
• Prior experience architecting cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives is preferred

The Team

Our Go-to-Market (GTM) organization is the connection between our clients’ cybersecurity needs and Palo Alto Networks’ set of solutions. Comprising account managers, systems engineers and sales specialists, our team is committed to client satisfaction and the continued growth of our business. Our sales team members work hand-in-hand with 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 $198000 - $273000/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.

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.