The Role
Serve as the technical lead for channel partners, enabling partner-led revenue through demos, POCs, technical enablement, assessments, and support during evaluations. Collaborate with sales, marketing, and partner teams to communicate product value, track partner capabilities, and help partners meet technical requirements and certifications.
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About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
The Channel-Focused Sales Engineer will act as the dedicated technical lead for a portfolio of core partners, playing a critical role in driving joint success. This individual will bring channel experience, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and excel in a fast-paced, partner-centric environment.
In this role, you will own technical enablement and support pre-sales activities, leveraging your expertise in cybersecurity solutions, particularly in Managed Detection and Response (MDR), threat detection, and incident response—to help partners effectively position and sell solutions.
Reporting to the Manager of Sales Engineering – Channel, this position is ideally based in the Greater Toronto Area. You will be responsible for accelerating partner growth across North America by strengthening technical capabilities, enabling partner success, and driving revenue through the effective adoption and positioning of Sophos products and services.
What You Will Do
- Support partner-led revenue growth by assisting Channel Account Executives in day-to-day partner activities.
- Participate in Partner Discovery sessions to learn partner operating models, service lines, and technical maturity.
- Deliver product demos, assessments, and POCs to partners under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Support partner SEs during evaluations and build the skills to run these motions independently over time.
- Communicate Sophos technical differentiation and platform value to partner teams.
- Collaborate with Marketing, CAMs, and CAEs to support programs that accelerate partner-led opportunities.
- Track and document partner technical capabilities and emerging trends, sharing findings with the wider team.
- Help partners work toward technical requirements, certifications, and readiness standards.
What You Will Bring
- Minimum 3+ years prior sales engineering experience a must.
- A proven track record of quota achievement and consistent performance
- Strong cybersecurity background across products, platforms, or service lines
- Excellent presentation, storytelling, and demo skills with technical and executive audiences
- Experience contributing to, or leading partner business reviews with senior leaders
- Competitive, self-starter mindset with a hunter mentality and a bias for action
- Ability to build strong, mutually beneficial business relationships
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate
- Proficiency in data analysis, including Power BI and emerging GenAI workflows
- Ability to quickly learn and adopt new approaches, technologies, and techniques
- Strong multitasking and prioritization skills in fast moving environments
- Effective teamwork, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to travel as needed to support partner events or in-region collaboration
In Canada, the base salary for this role ranges from $78,600 to $128,600. In addition to the base salary, there's a component for target sales commissions alongside a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
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What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 3+ years prior sales engineering experience
- Proven track record of quota achievement and consistent performance
- Strong cybersecurity background across products, platforms, or service lines
- Excellent presentation, storytelling, and demo skills with technical and executive audiences
- Experience contributing to or leading partner business reviews with senior leaders
- Proficiency in data analysis, including Power BI and emerging GenAI workflows
- Ability to build strong, mutually beneficial business relationships
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate
- Competitive, self-starter mindset with a hunter mentality and bias for action
- Ability to quickly learn and adopt new approaches, technologies, and techniques
- Strong multitasking and prioritization skills in fast moving environments
- Effective teamwork, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to travel as needed to support partner events or in-region collaboration
Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.
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The Company
What We Do
Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
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