About Us:
Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple: safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
How We Work:
At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values:
Bold in how we dream and innovate
Responsive to feedback, challenges and opportunities
Accountable for results and best in class outcomes
Visionary in future focused problem-solving
Exceptional in execution and impact
The Role
Proofpoint is looking for a self-starting, responsible, action-oriented, and highly motivated individual to join our growing field services team. The mission of the Customer Success Manager is to ensure that our customers realize the full value of the products and services they have purchased from Proofpoint, ultimately maximizing renewals.
This is a customer-centric role in a fast-paced environment that demands interaction with enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT and Security organization.
Successful candidates will have excellent communication skills with a proven track record of successfully interacting with customers regarding business and technical interests alike; a strong technical foundation, especially related to email security; substantial experience driving concurrent projects and issues to completion with little direction, and a passion for ensuring a world class customer experience.
Your day-to- day
Drive high levels of customer success through post sales customer engagements, maintaining a strong sense of ownership over customer outcomes
Be a relentless advocate for your customers into the Product Management, Engineering and internal teams to improve the product and help ensure that Proofpoint deployments are successful
Independently provide ongoing and proactive vision and guidance regarding data security initiatives to assigned Proofpoint customers
Provide guidance and advice to onboarding customers about how best to utilize Proofpoint resources including their purchased solutions, support options, training offerings and other Proofpoint services
Meet regularly with customers to review product adoption and health, issues, upcoming releases, and other initiatives
Develop a thorough understanding of a typical customer’s business and security needs by industry, providing proactive recommendations that support the customer’s priorities
Contribute to functional groups from areas such as Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Support, and Professional Services to help address underlying causes of churn and dissatisfaction.
What you bring to the team
3+ years of related industry experience in professional services, sales engineering, senior support engineering, or other customer facing roles with exposure to multiple technology areas
Understand and demonstrate customer success principles and behavior
Must be able to articulate customer business requirements and serve as the customer voice internally
Working knowledge of email security and networking concepts and frameworks
Working knowledge of cloud technologies, web services, operating systems, and common technical architecture
Ability to effectively work in a team environment as well as independently
Excellent communication skills, phone manner, and meeting presence within all levels of the customer’s organization
Project and/or program management skills and high attention to detail
Ability to think innovatively, strategically and deliver tactically
Ability to work independently, to adapt quickly, and to maintain a positive attitude in challenging situations
4-year college degree in a business area, technical area or equivalent
Why Proofpoint?
At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you’ll love working with us:
Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits
Career success on your terms
Flexible work environment
Annual wellness and community outreach days
Always on recognition for your contributions
Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Our Culture:
Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone.
We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected].
How to Apply
Interested? Submit your application along with any supporting information- we can’t wait to hear from you!
Skills Required
- 3+ years of related industry experience in professional services, sales engineering, senior support engineering, or other customer-facing roles
- Understand and demonstrate customer success principles and behavior
- Ability to articulate customer business requirements and act as the customer voice internally
- Working knowledge of email security and networking concepts and frameworks
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies, web services, operating systems, and common technical architecture
- Excellent communication skills, phone manner, and meeting presence across all levels of the customer's organization
- Project and/or program management skills and high attention to detail
- Ability to effectively work in a team environment as well as independently
- Ability to think innovatively, strategically and deliver tactically
- 4-year college degree in a business area, technical area or equivalent
Proofpoint Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Proofpoint and has not been reviewed or approved by Proofpoint.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage spans medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, complemented by global physical, mental, and financial health programs. Wellbeing resources such as mindfulness, resilience, and meditation courses are explicitly highlighted.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions include PTO, paid holidays and sick days, with parental and family medical leave available. Added flexibility appears in wellness days, a hybrid-first model, and limited work-from-anywhere periods.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and settings, with external recognition indicating strong standing relative to peers. Feedback suggests employees in several departments view compensation favorably when considering base, bonus, and benefits together.
Proofpoint Insights
What We Do
We provide the most effective cybersecurity and compliance solutions to protect people on every channel including email, the web, the cloud, and social media.
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