Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Check Point Software Technologies is a cybersecurity company providing technologies and services to address sophisticated security threats. The Security Engineering Manager will lead and develop a regional Sales Engineering team, support technical pre-sales activities, partner with Sales leadership, and drive complex security solution opportunities. The role also involves customer presentations, security architecture development, escalation management, and collaboration across internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and mentor the Sales Engineering team, providing strong technical and people leadership while driving pre-sales excellence and execution
- Manage, develop, and inspire a team of Security Engineers, including performance coaching, career development, and alignment with sales objectives
- Be hands-on in pre-sales activities while balancing leadership responsibilities across the SE organization
- Provide technical pre-sales assistance for customers and partners
- Partner closely with Sales leadership to develop existing accounts and drive new business opportunities
- Deliver technical product and solution presentations
- Actively participate in IT security events and trade shows as a speaker
- Develop integrated technical solutions by translating customer business requirements into effective security architectures
- Technically close complex and competitive opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical expertise, and credibility
- Identify revenue-impacting support escalations and proactively engage internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely and satisfactory resolution
- Proactively collaborate with Product Management, Business Units, Sales, and Marketing
- Maintain a broad understanding of the security threat landscape and the IT security industry, including current and emerging trends
Skills
- * Proven Sales Engineering leadership experience, including leading, coaching, and developing high-performing pre-sales or Sales Engineering teams
- * 15+ years of experience with networking standards and protocols (Ethernet, routing, UNIX, Network Management, Internet Protocol addressing)
- * At least 8 years of pre-sales engineering experience
- * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- * Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and develop technical teams
- * Solid data communications experience
- * Working knowledge of system design
- * Cybersecurity experience across network, data center, and cloud architectures
- * Ability and willingness to travel
- * Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future
- * Check Point experience and certification preferred
Benefits
- Certain roles are eligible for an annual bonus or sales incentive based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.
- US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits
- A 401(k) plan and company match
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Stock awards
- An employee stock purchasing plan
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