Sales Engineer

Who is Forcepoint

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoints all-in-one truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20 years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k customers. 300 patents. If our mission excites you youre in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All were missing is you!

Forcepoint has a fantastic opportunity to join our growing team.

Forcepoints all-in-one truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Data Security to prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working.

The position is a pre-sales engineering position where you will be working extremely closely with sales including building relationships with partners and ensuring they can position and implement our solutions.

From a technology perspective we are looking for someone with a Web & Data Security background with experience on positioning security products on large customers. Data protection knowledge is a plus. You will be joining a great successful team of SEs who will be happy to bring you up to speed. While we are responsible and accountable for our patch we support and help each other and only good team players will succeed.

What you will be doing:

• Lead discussions with customers to drive understanding and documentation of the customers environment and needs specifically their cross domain network security DLP/Intellectual property protection needs and recommend appropriate products/services that meet these needs.
• Deliver product technology and/or customized solution presentations to technical and business decision makers which may include system demonstrations white-boarding and technical Q&A sessions to the client.
• Provide pre-sales technical support security engineering and technical guidance for the development and implementation of Forcepoint cybersecurity technologies for customer.
• Work with customer strategic partners resellers and Forcepoint team members to architect design build and deploy cyber security solutions for customers and partners in support of pilot and proof of concept demonstrations.
• Attend industry conferences trade shows and sales events and participate in related activities.
• Prepare write and present trade studies cost benefit analyses white papers reports and briefings as required.
• Work with account managers and proposal team to develop technical content and diagrams for RFI/RFP responses
• Orchestrate Product Specialists involvement during pre-sales activities
• Collaborate with partners and professional services to design projects activities in order to have them aligned with customer expectations
• Assist with maintaining state of the art demonstration and lab capabilities and other duties and projects as assigned.

What you can bring:

• Previous demonstrated experience within cyber security
• Pre-sales experience working directly with cyber security and/or network products in a team environment.
• Experience with Web & Data Security
• Experience with Data Loss Prevention projects approach and logics
• Strong customer relation/engagement skills
• Ideally have experience working with enterprise accounts
• Confident communicator able to proactively engage with customer.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a broad range of audiences; from deeply technical to high executive C-level decision makers.
• Must be able to collaboratively coordinate across traditional engineering disciplines management and customers.
• Knowledge of networking topology TCP/IP protocol proxies infrastructures Network architectures and components (firewalls routers etc.)
• Linux/Windows systems administration experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of customers and prospects requirements security design and system architectures
• Experience with cyber security engineering projects and programs
• Degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent Engineering degree

Dont meet every single qualification Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they dont meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience but it otherwise aligns and youre excited about this role we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation gender identity marital status citizenship status age national origin ancestry disability veteran status or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Forcepoint is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Companys career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to .

Applicants must have the right to work in the location to which you have applied.

Required Experience:

IC

Key Skills
Sales Experience,Presentation Skills,OEM,SAAS,Computer Networking,Product Demos,Salesforce,CRM Software,Enterprise Sales,Pre-sales,MPLS,Sales Support
Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1