Sr. Inside Sales Engineer, France (French Speaking)

About Us: We are the leader in human-centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We’re driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work: At Proofpoint, you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity, guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate, Responsive to feedback, challenges, and opportunities, Accountable for results and best-in-class outcomes, Visionary in future-focused problem-solving, Exceptional in execution and impact.

The Role: The members of our Sales Engineering team are highly valued business partners that play a critical role in our sales process every single day. As an Inside Sales Engineer working with Commercial accounts, you will be one of the most important members of the Proofpoint sales team. After initial onboarding and regular product training, you will become a trusted advisor to our Account Managers and Channel Partners in region, as well as our current and future customers. As a technical liaison and subject matter expert on all things Proofpoint, you will help to deliver People-Centric solutions that protect against today’s cyber threats.

Your day-to-day:

• Collaborate with the sales team to develop and execute targeted account penetration strategies.
• Design and champion complex People-Centric Security solutions encompassing the entire Proofpoint portfolio.
• Occasionally assist in professional services deployments and technical training, and present or attend industry seminars and/or trade shows.
• Provide valuable customer insights and real-world experiences to Product Management, Marketing and Product Development (Engineering) teams.
• Work with our Channel team to help support and enable our Distributors and Resellers.
• Become an expert in Email Security, Advanced Persistent Threats, Attack Protection, Threat Response, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and the threat landscape.
• Occasional travel required.

What You Bring To The Team:

• Proven hands-on experience, either as a Sales/Systems Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Security Engineer, or senior level product support, preferably related to the cyber-security industry.
• Experience in either secure messaging, data security, network security, endpoint, NOC/SOC, or MSP-related cybersecurity desirable.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Fluent in English and French, any additional languages are a plus.
• Exposure to at least two of the following skill sets are recommended:

• Enterprise email solutions such as Exchange, O365, G-Suite, Lotus Domino or working knowledge of SMTP.
• IT security related areas such as Vulnerability and Risk Management, Security Operations or Incident Response.
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP), compliance and data privacy.
• Cloud security and shadow IT monitoring.
• Cloud computing Infrastructure (e.g. AWS/Azure).

Nice to have:

• Hands on experience with the following:

• Directory Services and protocols such as Active Directory, Azure AD, LDAP, iDP (identity providers).
• Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
• Networking and protocols such as DNS, LDAP, HTTP.
• Experience with security standards and frameworks such as ISO, MITRE and/or NIST.
• CISSP, CCSP or other industry certification is beneficial.

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.

Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!