Senior Sales Engineer
- Paris, France
- Remote
- Senior Level
- Posted
Join Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, as a Senior Sales Engineer. In this role, you will support the French sales team by providing technical expertise throughout the sales cycle, conducting product demonstrations, and building relationships with key technical decision-makers. You will also have the opportunity to influence product roadmaps and feature enhancements. Enjoy a remote-first working model, flexible hours, and a range of benefits including wellness programs, leadership development, and social events.
Paris based
Travel required within whole France territory
Business English – fluent spoken and written (mandatory)
Responsibilities
- Identifying technical requirements within sales opportunities and matching them to Sophos solutions.
- Providing product trials, evaluations, and technical training to partners and customers.
- Conducting technical demonstrations, managing technical evaluations, and influencing product roadmaps.
Requirements
- Strong collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Technical knowledge of networking, endpoint security concepts
- Proactive approach to learning and adopting new technologies
- Minimum of 8 years of experience providing software technical support to channel partners and end users (e.g., designing, managing, administering, and supporting technical solutions)
Strong Troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of security software industry, including competitors, market needs and trends
- Strong presentation, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills for marketing, technical and awareness events, webinars, etc
- Excellent project management skills
- Technical writing skills are required to produce reference documents
- Business French – fluent spoken and written (mandatory)
Preferred
- Familiarity with Sophos solutions or similar competitive products is a plus
- Certifications in networking, security or cloud space is a plus
- Experience managing IT infrastructure
- Experience with pre-sales technical support