Abnormal AI is seeking an Mid-Market Sales Engineer to join our growing Sales Engineering team. As an Mid-Market Sales Engineer, you will serve as our customer’s primary technical contact, acting as a trusted technical advisor to security, email, and identity teams, crafting strategic, value-based business cases to win complex business opportunities and help organizations conquer their most intractable email and identity-driven security challenges.
In partnership with Mid-Market Account Executives, you will be responsible for conducting in-person and remote product demonstrations, leading architecture-level technical discussions, articulating the technical and business value of Abnormal Security’s platform, and owning and driving successful outcomes for Enterprise-scale Proof of Value (POV) programs.
The ideal candidate for this role will be located in the Chicago area and possess the following skill set:
- Ability to tie technology to measurable risk reduction and business outcomes at Enterprise scale
- Ability to influence senior security, IT, and executive stakeholders in both virtual and in-person settings
- High EQ; ability to read the room, engage stakeholders, demonstrate empathy, listen actively, and respond thoughtfully
- Ability to create value-driven presentations and tell compelling stories (PowerPoint, Google Slides)
- Strong discovery skills to uncover customer pain points, requirements, and strategic objectives
- Serve as the technical authority and primary technical decision partner in enterprise sales cycles, from discovery through close, including full ownership of Proof of Value (POV) success criteria and outcomes
- Lead architecture-level conversations with security, email, and identity teams
- Run technical discovery that uncovers risk, not just requirements
- Conduct technical and competitive landscape research to effectively address customer questions and objections
- Confidently answer architecture-level and modern threat questions without deferring to Product or Engineering
- Articulate why legacy secure email gateways fail against social engineering and identity-based attacks
- Educate sales executives and partners on Abnormal Security’s products, platform, and security posture
- Obsessively drive customer satisfaction and successful business outcomes
- 3+ years of Sales Engineering experience OR relevant industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discovery and architecture discussions with security, infrastructure, identity and compliance teams
- Strong technical presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to see and present the “big picture,” uncover complex business challenges, and architect solutions to solve customer needs
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-impact sales environment
- Positive attitude, strong customer focus, and a high sense of ownership over customer results
- Solid technical understanding of SaaS security models including multi-tenant cloud environments
- Working knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, and enterprise networking concepts as they relate to email and SaaS security
- Experience with enterprise email security platforms (Proofpoint, Mimecast, Cisco, Barracuda, etc.)
- Technical background in messaging and internet security principles
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Exchange Online / Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
- Strong understanding of SMTP mail flow, MX records and mail routing
- Working knowledge of email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and common failure modes
- Strong understanding of Cloud SaaS infrastructure including identity services such as Azure AD / Entra ID / Google Identity
- Ability to explain identity-driven and modern social engineering attacks and controls at an architectural level
- Experience integrating SaaS platforms via OAuth and REST APIs
- Familiarity with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel) and SOC workflows
- Experience working with or alongside SOC incident response teams including creating incident response workflows
- Security certifications (CISSP, CEH, or equivalent) for credibility with enterprise buyers
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Actual compensation will be determined based on several non-discriminatory factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.
AI and our hiring process
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of Sales Engineering experience or relevant industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discovery and architecture discussions with security, infrastructure, identity and compliance teams
- Strong technical presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to see and present the big picture, uncover complex business challenges, and architect solutions to solve customer needs
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-impact sales environment
- Positive attitude, strong customer focus, and a high sense of ownership over customer results
- Solid technical understanding of SaaS security models including multi-tenant cloud environments
- Working knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, and enterprise networking concepts as they relate to email and SaaS security
- Ability to tie technology to measurable risk reduction and business outcomes at enterprise scale
- Ability to influence senior security, IT, and executive stakeholders in virtual and in-person settings
- High emotional intelligence; ability to read the room, engage stakeholders, demonstrate empathy, and listen actively
- Ability to create value-driven presentations and tell compelling stories (PowerPoint, Google Slides)
- Strong discovery skills to uncover customer pain points, requirements, and strategic objectives
- Experience with enterprise email security platforms (Proofpoint, Mimecast, Cisco, Barracuda)
- Technical background in messaging and internet security principles
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, or Google Workspace
- Strong understanding of SMTP mail flow, MX records and mail routing
- Working knowledge of email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and common failure modes
- Strong understanding of Cloud SaaS infrastructure including identity services such as Azure AD, Entra ID, or Google Identity
- Ability to explain identity-driven and modern social engineering attacks and controls at an architectural level
- Experience integrating SaaS platforms via OAuth and REST APIs
- Familiarity with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel) and SOC workflows
- Experience working with or alongside SOC incident response teams including creating incident response workflows
- Security certifications (CISSP, CEH, or equivalent) for credibility with enterprise buyers
Abnormal Security Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered aggressively benchmarked to leading tech markets with annual reviews, and feedback suggests engineering and sales roles are compensated competitively with strong upside potential.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as robust, including employer-paid premiums for employees in prior postings, One Medical access, and globally designed healthcare and parental leave.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off provisions include flexible/unlimited PTO, company holidays, and paid parental leave that the company positions as globally available.
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What We Do
The Abnormal Security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based Office 365 and G Suite integration, Abnormal sets up in minutes and does not disrupt email flow. Abnormal Security was founded in 2018 by CEO Evan Reiser, CTO Sanjay Jeyakumar, Head of Machine Learning Jeshua Bratman, and Founding Engineers Abhijit Bagri and Dmitry Chechik. The team previously built behavioral profiling and machine learning technologies at Twitter, Google and Pinterest that are being applied to solve a problem that costs organizations $1 billion per year, according to the FBI. The Abnormal Security platform stops targeted phishing, business email compromise and account takeover attacks that have never been seen before.
