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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
The Role
This role will inspire and guide a team of inside sales professionals driving net new and add-on revenue growth in the commercial segment. This newest addition to our leadership team will lead a group of dynamic leaders as a second line manager, be very hands on, love interacting with customers, and will focus on enabling and empowering team members to achieve their goals. This senior level, dynamic individual will be taking the helm of an already successful team, while also adding new members over time. Main focuses for this role will include driving net new growth and assuming duties as commander in chief of a sales and performance driven culture.
The role is onsite in Sunnyvale, CA for at least three days weekly.
Your day-to-day
- Guide and motivate a high performing team to drive revenue growth through a positive, high-touch customer experience
- Build and develop a diverse and high performing culture that inspires performance and achievement
- Connect team members to key resources and clear roadblocks, enabling them to achieve and/or exceed their revenue goals Instill and maintain a quality and integrity based sales process with respect to rep/customer interactions
- Actively engage attracting and securing top local talent Provide training and ongoing coaching and development to both front line leaders and account executives alike
- Prepare and execute a thorough business plan, including planning for both current and future quarter success
- Track/report on key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Prepare and present team forecast to executive management
- Facilitate and develop ongoing internal partnerships with various business units including Sales Engineering and Marketing Become a perpetual student of Proofpoint products, and the ever changing CyberSecurity industry! May require modified work hours to cover accounts in other time zones, and occasional travel for key accounts
What you bring to the team
- 5+ years of experience in sales management
- Experience in a second line leadership role (manager of managers) Demonstrable success in leading/managing inside or field sales teams with a complex product and solution sales approach
- Strong leadership experience, with a focus on training, coaching, motivation and culture
- Track record of success in attracting top talent and building diverse and high performing teams
- Ready to roll up your sleeves and get things done and do whatever it takes to help achieve the objective!
- Expert knowledge of the full sales cycle, from prospecting, cold calling through to negotiation and closing
- Ability to function in “Player/Coach” role that may include customer facing engagement
- Ability to provide situational coaching and advice and help guide deals to closure
- Background selling Security or SaaS products is a plus
- Technical aptitude, and ability to learn new concepts quickly
- Experience working with SalesForce strongly preferred
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required MBA or Master level degree a plus!
- 3 days a week in the Sunnyvale, Ca office
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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.
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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.
