Senior Sales Engineer - Enterprise

Tokyo, JPN. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will provide technical expertise and strategic advice to enterprise customers. You will take total ownership of the technical sale and its processes, and deliver sales pitches, technical demonstrations and whiteboard presentations on your own.

What you will do

Provide technical expertise and strategic advice to enterprise customers
Take total ownership of the technical sale and associated processes
Independently deliver high-impact sales pitches, technical demonstrations, and whiteboard presentations

Required qualifications

BSCS or equivalent, with extensive experience as a Sales Engineer or systems integrator
7+ years of experience in Pre-Sales roles
At least 3 years focused on selling security or networking solutions in direct or high-touch sales environments
Technical proficiency in HTTP and web-related technologies
High fluency in written and spoken Japanese
Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions within your functional domain

Nice to have

Experience working with routing and switching products, including complex troubleshooting
Solid understanding of SaaS-based technologies and network security frameworks
Hands-on experience with installation, configuration and administration of macOS, UNIX/Linux and Windows systems
Strong AI fluency: using coding assistants, LLMs and Generative AI tools to speed up troubleshooting, solution design, automation and customer problem-solving, and validating AI outputs
Experience positioning AI-driven threat intelligence, automated policy enforcement or AI security frameworks to enterprise clients

Benefits

Various health plans
Time off plans for vacation and sick time
Parental leave options
Retirement options
Education reimbursement
In-office perks

Before you apply

Pay transparency: the posting does not state a pay range

About the company

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) provides cloud security through its Zero Trust Exchange platform, which securely connects users, devices and applications in any location. The company describes it as the world's largest in-line cloud security platform.