Overview
At Mimecast, we’re not just protecting email anymore - we’re redefining cybersecurity. As a global leader with over 42,000 customers worldwide, we’ve built a connected Human Risk Management platform that tackles the human layer, the largest attack surface in cybersecurity. From email security to insider risk management, security awareness training, and AI-powered threat intelligence, we’re shaping the future of cyber resilience. Are you ready to be part of that future?
We’re expanding our team in Italy and are looking for a Senior Sales Engineer who can bring our full platform story to life for customers and partners. This isn’t just another role - it’s an opportunity to drive innovation, empower clients, and play a key part in solving a problem that the industry is only just catching up to: managing the human layer requires more than just point products. If you’re a passionate, technically skilled professional with a flair for sales and a collaborative spirit, we want to hear from you. Bring your expertise to a fast-growing organisation that thrives on solving complex challenges and celebrating success. Let’s make an impact together!
What You’ll Do
- Technical Pre-Sales Support.
- Providing technical advice and support to sales opportunities and engaging with technical contacts in customer and reseller partner organizations, to ensure the Mimecast service is positioned correctly, understood and any technical objections are overcome.
- This will include product demonstrations, presentations to senior customer contacts and writing formal RFP response documents, as well as the preparation of strategic high-level implementation plans.
- The role will involve closely partnering with sales colleagues.
- Proof-Of-Concept support. In conjunction with our Service Delivery team, supporting more complex solutions and overseeing the implementation and success of pre-sales proof-of-concepts.
- Some experience in project management and working with technology partners is helpful.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in a technical and/or sales engineering role, ideally also with enterprise accounts.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to command the attention of senior technical audiences
- Familiarity with networking and security technologies and services
- Hands-on technical knowledge across relevant cybersecurity domains (email security, insider risk/DLP, security awareness, endpoint, identity)
- Understanding of spam, viruses and email security and Internet based threats
- Knowledge of email archiving solutions and archiving business drivers
- An understanding of email management and security/archiving solutions such as Forcepoint, Proofpoint, Barracuda, Symantec Enterprise Vault etc
- Experience with the design, management and maintenance of typical collaboration platforms including Microsoft 365
- Experience in consultative selling of complex services
- Experience with SaaS based solutions
- Flexible approach and willingness to learn new skills and disciplines
- Experience of operating in an indirect sales environment is beneficial
- Ideally based in Milan
The OTE for this position is €104,000 - €156,000. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits, in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications, experience, and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.
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Belonging at Mimecast
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Skills Required
- Experience in a technical and/or sales engineering role, ideally with enterprise accounts
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Hands-on technical knowledge across relevant cybersecurity domains
- Understanding of spam, viruses, and email security
- Experience with SaaS based solutions
- Experience of operating in an indirect sales environment
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world. Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
