Director of Sales Engineering, East Coast

The role

You will lead the east region Sales Engineering function. You will partner with Account Executives to run discovery, deliver technical demonstrations, design proof-of-concept engagements, and translate security and AI concepts into business value.

What you will do

• Own technical win strategy for East region opportunities
• Design and run POCs/pilots that prove out 7AI's agentic security capabilities
• Serve as the technical voice of the customer to Product and Engineering
• Recruit, hire, and develop a team of Sales Engineers
• Build repeatable technical sales methodology, demo environments, and POC frameworks
• Represent 7AI at industry events, customer briefings, and analyst conversations
• Partner with Sales leadership on territory strategy and account planning

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in sales engineering or solutions architecture in cybersecurity, SOC/SIEM, or security operations technology
• 3+ years of experience leading or building a sales engineering team
• Deep technical fluency in security operations - detection engineering, threat investigation, SOAR/SIEM platforms, or AI/ML-driven security tooling
• Proven ability to sell to and influence CISOs, security architects, and SOC leadership
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment
• Excellent communicator
• Based in or willing to be based in the Eastern time zone
• Regular travel across the region

About the company

7AI is the foundational AI security company founded in 2024. The platform pairs a federated SIEM with AI agents to detect, investigate, respond, and hunt.