Strategic DevSecOps Specialist (Secrets Manager) - West and Canada

Date: Jan 31, 2021

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Category: Sales

About CyberArk:

CyberArk, the global leader in privileged access and secrets management, helps organizations transform their business through improved security and reduced risk. As a trusted partner for thousands of companies around the world, CyberArk consistently sets the bar – driving innovation and helping our customers stay one step ahead of attackers.

Job Description:

CyberArk is looking for a highly motivated, energetic and focused Sales Specialist based in North America. As a Sales Specialist, you’ll play a vital role in the success of CyberArk’s Secrets Manager. The Sales Specialist will combine product and devOps industry knowledge with sales skills and be the primary resource for the field sales force. They are responsible for new customer acquisition and customer growth in an assigned regional geography as a strategic member of the selling team to large and complex customers. Desired result is acquiring new annual recurring revenue at or above assigned bookings targets. A key function of this role is establishing a highly collaborative working relationship with the CyberArk account teams in your assigned region for prospecting, qualifying, and closing Secrets Manager sales for CyberArk.

Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven record of accomplishment in relevant vendor software sales or encompass knowledge of similar technologies. You must be comfortable in a dynamic atmosphere of a technical organization with a rapidly expanding customer base. You must possess strong presentation skills combine with technical understanding. You must be organized and analytical, able to eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.

• You will establish and maintain customer relationships at the executive, business decisionmaker level including CISO, CIO but also other executives own the devOps and clouds institutive.
• You will develop & present compelling business cases to customers, maintain expert-level knowledge of all elements of the business case, including the drivers of cost, benefits, and risk.
• You will partner closely with Sales Account Teams, Solutions Engineers and Professional Services to align the technology architecture to the customer's desired business outcomes.
• Work closely with the Customer Success team to ensure successful product adoption and realization of the full value of Customer’s technology investment.
• Work with Channel Partners, Resellers and Systems Integrators to penetrate new accounts and extend reach of CyberArk’s endpoint solution in the assigned geography.
• Drive account management responsibilities including solution creation, solution offering configuration management, order issuance, service delivery, service management and revenue recognition.
• Work independently and as part of a sales team to Identify, scope, negotiate, and close new sales opportunities in order to meet and exceed established sales quota. Provide comprehensive account plans and strategies to win new business with new and existing customers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years prior sales experience in devOps or cloud markets or 10+ years of Senior Sales Engineer role with experience in technical sales processes targeting developers.
• Technical background, understanding of the devOps and developers’ processes. In depth knowledge on devOps vendors and products with ability to describe how to integrate with secrets management products.
• A demonstrated history of successfully collaboration as part of a sales/account team in a strategic selling capacity.
• Ability to engage in a variety of account situations balancing strategic and tactical thought leadership.
• Strong presentation skills as well as the ability to build and present high-quality product overviews to both internal and external audiences
• In depth knowledge on secrets management market and products and able to compare and contrast with CyberArk products.
• Interaction with Product Management to articulate nonstandard / custom requirements based upon customer needs.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and capable of presenting technical concepts and product solutions to audiences ranging from IT staff to business executives.
• Aptitude to understand customer needs, overcome objections, assist in the development of business use cases, and successfully positioning for technical wins.
• Ability to travel within assigned territory and other locations approximately 40% of time.

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Recruiting agencies or vendors without a valid agreement between the parties are not authorized to (a) send CyberArk unsolicited resumes or candidate data or (b) contact CyberArk employees for the purposes of presenting candidates for employment. CyberArk will only work with recruiting agencies who have a valid agreement with CyberArk and that are specifically invited by CyberArk’s recruiting team to assist with searching for and submitting candidates for a specific position. Any unsolicited resumes or other candidate data submitted to CyberArk will not be accepted and shall be considered CyberArk’s property. CyberArk will not pay any placement or other fees of any kind for any unsolicited resumes or candidate data that is submitted in violation of this policy. CyberArk does not accept liability under any legal theory such as course of conduct, oral agreements, implied contra