Regional Sales Engineer, Ng Identity Security

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan

This role is for a Regional Sales Engineer focused on Identity Security, supporting sales teams in Japan. The role involves delivering technical product presentations, configuring installations, providing training to the sales team, and acting as a technical bridge between CrowdStrike and prospects/customers. It requires expertise in IAM, SaaS, MFA, and understanding attack kill chains related to identity. While the company mentions an 'AI-native platform', the core responsibilities of this sales engineering role do not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver technical product presentations & demonstrations to a variety of external audiences up to C-level executives.
  2. Configure product installations and customizations in a POV engagement.
  3. Provide informal training to the Sales team on CrowdStrike technology and support for technical sales and competitive messaging.
  4. Work as a Trusted Advisor within our prospects and customers in order to gain market share and ensure project success.
  5. Work collaboratively with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Engineering; the Sales Engineer should be the technical bridge between CrowdStrike and prospects/customers.

Skills

Required

  • 5 or more years experience as a Sales Engineer or Solution Architect in the IAM or Identity Security space
  • Be able to speak expertly about the identity components of the attack kill chain and identity-based tactics and techniques used by attackers.
  • Strong technical knowledge of SaaS/Cloud platforms (Salesforce, 365 etc) and security concepts (network security, endpoint security, threat detection).
  • Understand Active Directory architecture, authentication, and attacks.
  • Feel at ease presenting to large audiences both remotely and in-person.
  • Proven experience managing complex enterprise/strategic sales cycles end-to-end, including discovery, workshops, architecture design, demos, and proof-of-concept delivery
  • Demonstrated ability to "quarterback" technical workstreams - leveraging team resources effectively to coordinate internal and external experts, drive PoC execution, and ensure timely resolution of technical blockers
  • Strong understanding of IAM principles, enterprise IT architectures, and system security measures, with broad knowledge of systems, networking, and web platforms
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate closely with Account Executives, contributing technical insight and feedback to shape deal strategy
  • Comfort presenting and delivering technical content to executives, architects, and technical staff, with the ability to translate technical capabilities into business impact
  • Willingly experiment with new technologies, techniques, and approaches to understand and communicate the unique value of CrowdStrike’s solutions.
  • Fluency in Japanese and conversational English.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Powershell, Python, and APIs is preferred.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) is preferred.
  • Experience with administration of CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection.
  • Have a solid understanding of MFA technologies preferable with hands on experience with Okta, Ping, Duo, Microsoft and Google MFA solutions.
  • Have experience with penetration testing and red/purple team exercises focusing on identity-based attacks.
  • Experience with MEDDPICC (or other Sales qualification frameworks)
  • Additional language fluency.