Senior Sales Engineer

Position Summary

As a Senior Sales Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the success of strategic sales engagements, bringing technical leadership, industry insight, and a deep understanding of customer needs to each opportunity. You will influence high-impact sales cycles and contribute directly to revenue growth and the company’s long-term success.

In this senior-level position, you will lead the technical sales strategy, deliver advanced product demonstrations, and guide customers through complex solution architectures. You’ll mentor other sales engineers, collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to align customer feedback with roadmap priorities, and support executive-level discussions. Your deep understanding of our technology, market landscape, and customer challenges will allow you to design and advocate for customer-tailored solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Additionally, you will proactively resolve pre-sales technical challenges and act as a trusted advisor to both internal teams and customer stakeholders throughout the buying journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy across the full sales lifecycle, aligning ExtraHop’s capabilities with complex customer environments—from executive-level presentations and deep-dive demonstrations to proposal development, proof-of-concept execution, and business value realization.
• Drive customer discovery efforts to uncover requirements for ExtraHop solutions
• Proactively mitigate technology-related buying objections from the sales opportunities
• Demonstrate ExtraHop’s platform with authority and market awareness to differentiate from the competition and identify where they fit in the context of the wider market
• Independently conduct Proof-of-Concepts (POC), from installing the appliance to helping prospective customers interpret data in the context of their environment to preparing/presenting a summary of the value demonstrated
• Surface and define compelling events, strategic business drivers and offer the optimal ExtraHop solution that addresses that requirement
• Articulate the security value proposition and key differentiating capabilities with executive fluency to prospective new customers and solutions partners
• Lead technical qualification and deal strategy within qualifying opportunities, mapping technical capabilities to business drivers/corporate initiatives, and scoping a BOM.
• Collaborate with Regional Sales Managers and Sales Engineers to prepare and present proposals and RFIs
• Influence product direction and go-to-market strategy, acting as a key liaison between field intelligence and Product Management to shape next-gen cloud security offerings based on evolving customer needs.
• Provide post-sales follow-up, technical training, and support to ensure customer success and solution adoption.