It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
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.
The Role
We are seeking a proactive, creative, and tenacious Senior Enterprise Sales Professional to drive new cyber security business across all vertical markets within an assigned account set of approx. 15 Strategic accounts. The accounts will be a combination of white space and existing customers.
This role will demand interaction with large-scale enterprises at the CIO, IT Director and CISO level, as well as with technical staff within the security and IT organisation.
Responsibilities include the ability to establish strong business relationships at the executive level, advanced solution selling capabilities, conducting sales presentations, coordinating multiple resources within an account, while consistently and successfully closing business for Proofpoint.
Your day-to-day
- Prospect new and existing accounts, generate interest, qualify, cultivate relationships and successfully develop and close new business
- Drive and orchestrate large complex sales cycle and work with our partners and internal teams to best serve the customer
- Develop an overall account strategy leading to the deployment of a well-executed selling effort into the assigned accounts
- Stay updated on industry news and trends, and how they affect Proofpoint products and services
- Convert prospects into sales by differentiating from the competition
- Collaborate with Systems Engineers to organise and deliver compelling and flawless product demonstrations
- Partner with the channel to gain access into new accounts
- Deliver strong operational excellence, to include forecast accuracy, SFDC pipeline development,
What you bring to the team
- Proven track record of meeting and exceeding targets within the cybersecurity or IT Infrastructure marketplace is a must
- Proven ability to articulate a large portfolio of products – solutions and services
- Ability to develop relationship at the C-level
- Business acumen, to understand the cyber security threat landscape, and become the trusted advisor of the CISO
- Able to effectively collaborate work with channel partners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to clearly and effectively articulate Proofpoint’s value
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently or in a team environment
- Ability to use SFDC, pricing and other on-line tools effectively
- Existing relationships within similar markets is preferred
- In addition to fluency in French, fluency in English is also required
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
#LI-SC1
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
Similar Jobs
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.
