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This is a talent-community posting for experienced go-to-market sales professionals in cybersecurity and network security, rather than a single defined opening. Likely candidates are enterprise account executives or territory sales professionals responsible for winning new accounts, expanding existing customers, and building reseller partnerships. The role requires technical fluency in network and security infrastructure, strategic territory planning, pipeline forecasting, and executive-level selling. Candidates need at least five years of technology sales experience, including three years in security sales, with a demonstrated record of achieving revenue targets. The environment appears fast-paced, independent, and collaborative across sales engineering, channel, and management teams.
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I segment accounts by fit, potential value, security maturity, and buying triggers, then map stakeholders and create account-specific outreach and partner strategies. I review pipeline coverage, conversion rates, and next steps regularly, adjusting the plan based on evidence rather than activity volume alone.
I would begin with the CISO's risk priorities, such as blind spots, investigation speed, ransomware exposure, or hybrid-cloud visibility. I would then connect packet-level network intelligence and detection capabilities to measurable outcomes: faster threat validation, improved context for the SOC, and reduced time to contain incidents.
In a prior territory, I exceeded target by concentrating on a small set of high-propensity accounts, creating executive alignment early, and coordinating technical validation with a clear mutual action plan. I maintained rigorous qualification and forecast discipline, which allowed me to focus resources on opportunities with a realistic path to close.
I establish roles, deal strategy, and customer value early with the partner, while maintaining direct executive relationships and accountability for the opportunity plan. Regular joint pipeline reviews, transparent communication, and agreed next steps keep the partnership productive and customer-centered.
I forecast from verified customer actions, including confirmed business pain, decision process, stakeholders, technical validation, commercial path, and a dated next step. I separate upside from commit opportunities and communicate risks early so leadership can make informed decisions.
At ExtraHop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.
Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.
We are constantly looking for strong GTM candidates within the cyber and network security space. Please apply if you are interested in working for ExtraHop!
Our platform for Network Security Analytics is a unique and powerful component of Security Operations. We offer strong comp plans, fair quotas, and the opportunity to work with other smart, hardworking people who are excited about creating the next great systems company in the Security market. If you are at the top of your game, have experience building territories, are a challenger, and can sell innovative next-gen solutions, then we want to hear from you.
This key position requires someone who is able to learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of ExtraHop’s products and technologies, competitive products and industry trends. You are primarily responsible for increasing revenue in assigned regions/territories/districts through identifying, recruiting and developing opportunity for generating direct sales or partnerships with resellers.
General Key Responsibilities
- Meet and exceed assigned sales targets by closing new accounts and growing revenues in existing customer installations
- Identify prospects for ExtraHop products through cold calls, and lead follow-up and face-to-face meetings
- Call on senior executives to understand the business, decision-making, and financing processes of your territory
- Present and demonstrate ExtraHop products to customers
- Provide customer and competitor feedback and field intelligence where available and necessary
- Prepare and implement strategic sales account plans for all customers and identify business growth opportunities in assigned customer base
- Ensure resellers and field sales engineers and management are working together in the sales process, lead generation, registering opportunities, accurately forecasting revenue, and tracking to required revenue goals established by their discount tier
- Work with resellers to grow business in your territory
- Prepare and maintain an accurate sales forecast for your territory
- Network in customer and related organizations
General Required Qualifications
- Four-year degree or equivalent in a related discipline (e.g., information technology, computer science, business, or engineering)
- Five years’ experience in technology sales with a consistent track record of exceeding sales targets
- Three years’ security sales experience
- Demonstrated technical acumen to articulate ExtraHop’s value proposition in a differentiated and compelling manner
- Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Proven history of sales success in network/application management or related IT infrastructure solutions
- Demonstrated ability to secure meetings and close deals with senior level executives
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking technologies: switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, WAN optimization technologies, and so forth is a plus
- Strong independent work ethic and experience working in startup culture
- Existing senior level relationships at a wide range of enterprise accounts in your assigned territory
- Background in software/hardware sales and distribution with large software, hardware, and/or networking companies
- Ability to travel
- Work cooperatively with others within the organization and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Work well in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
- Has predictable, reliable attendance.
ABOUT EXTRAHOP
ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.
This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.
OUR VALUES
Our culture is rooted in our five Values. These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a team.
Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.
Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.
Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.
Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.
Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.
BENEFITS
Employees’ wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
- Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan
- FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP, where applicable
- Educational Reimbursement
- 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable
- Pet Insurance (US Only)
- Parental Leave (US Only)
- Hybrid and Remote Work Model
Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against cyber criminals. Join the fight today!
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