Vice President, Global Sales Engineering

Job Title

Vice President, Global Sales Engineering

About Skyhigh Security

Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry. Our mission is to protect the world's data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency.

Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company.

Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our 'Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive and engaging place where you can be your authentic self.

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Role Overview

Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, the Vice President, Global Sales Engineering will focus on strategically and tactically leading the Sales Engineering organization in direct alignment with Skyhigh Security's Go-To-Market strategy, while providing market and customer intelligence to our Products organization, and driving technical excellence, solution outcomes, and enablement to our customers and Channel partners.

As the Sales Engineering leader, you will also be accountable for field readiness programs, operational excellence, metrics, KPI management and continuous leadership efforts aligned to attracting, developing, motivating, and transforming our Sales Engineering teams to become best in class when engaging with customers, colleagues and partners.

About the Role

Applying your inspirational and disciplined style, you will transform the GTM strategy, structure, direction and inspiration for the global Sales Engineering organization, leading by example and promoting a culture of results, accountability and initiative.

In collaboration with your direct reports, you will establish KPIs and performance expectations, reporting sales results and forecasts against established metrics, and providing recommended courses of action where shortcomings are identified.

You will collaborate with leaders from Engineering, Customer Success, Product Management, Marketing and Professional Services in providing market and customer insights, challenges and suggestions.

As a Field CTO, act as the technical face of the company when engaging with key accounts and partners translating the corporate product vision into customer-relevant value propositions. In addition, influence the roadmap by bringing back market intelligence and unmet customer needs.

With an overall Skyhigh Security solution "architecture" approach, you and your leaders will ensure sales engineering enablement programs are focused on transforming performance to become technical security advisers to our partners and customers.

Implement sales engineering and sales tools, resources and financial data to manage sales engineering productivity and operational excellence and effectiveness. Grow the business in a controlled and focused manner using SFDC to report results against established KPIs.

Reinforce and act as an ambassador for Skyhigh Security's GTM model and ensure all team members and channel partners understand the need for 'one voice' to our clients.

In conjunction with regional sales and Sales Engineering leaders, collaborate with Partners to identify, support and close opportunities, while ensuring our Partners are enabled and educated on Skyhigh Security solutions.

About You

You have an inspirational, disciplined, technically deep sales engineering background that includes strategic and tactical Sales Engineering management experience in the technology enterprise software sector, combined with an open, honest and collaborative people leadership style.

Minimum of 5 years of indepth, global Sales Engineering leadership experience aligned to enterprise Sales Engineering teams within a blended direct and indirect sales model. Your management history must include growing and evolving teams into top performers with an account-expansion mindset through talent assessment, acquisition, performance management and succession planning.

You are hands-on, lead-from-the-front style and have a history of leading globally dispersed sales engineering teams of at least 30 + people.

Your experiences includes a track-record in consultative solution selling of enterprise-grade, integrated solutions and / or platforms, with a focus on customer success and achieving mutually positive results.

Security software experience is preferred.

You must be technically savvy to communicate the value of our platform and solutions with customers, partners and your SE teams.

Transformation experience required in start-up or growth companies, implementing sales methodologies (preferably MEDDPICC).

Measurable experience working with a wide variety of partners to achieve customer success, including resellers, SI's, distributors and MSPs / CSPs is essential.

Multilingual communications skills are respected but not required.

Global travel is required.

Company Benefits and Perks

Retirement Plans

Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

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