Regional Sales Manager - Sled (remote, New England)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · USA - Remote, NY, USA - Remote, CT, USA - Remote, VT, USA - Remote, MA, USA - Remote, ME

CrowdStrike is seeking a Regional Sales Manager for their SLED (State, Local, Government, Education) sector in the Northeast. This role involves identifying and closing new business opportunities, expanding revenue, and building relationships with key decision-makers in target accounts. The successful candidate will leverage CrowdStrike's AI-native cybersecurity platform to protect clients from advanced threats.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify, develop and execute account strategy to close new business opportunities and expanding revenue with customers across the assigned region; independently and cooperatively.
  2. Scope, negotiate and bring to closure agreements to exceed booking and revenue quota targets.
  3. Target and gain access to decision makers in key prospect accounts in the assigned territory.
  4. Establish access and maintain existing relationships with key decision makers (typically at the CIO and CSO level) in industry, partners, and mid-market customers to drive all pertinent issues related to sales strategy and goal attainment.
  5. Collaborate with operative peers across functions (including the Field Sales, Channel, Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, Services, Customer Support, and Product Development) to create visibility with target accounts and drive engagement of target prospects at both the individual contributor and executive level.

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems and use a systematic approach to gain swift resolution.
  • Strong understanding of Cybersecurity, Cloud and SaaS technologies and competitive offerings in the marketplace.
  • Significant and proven experience developing relationships with senior executives.
  • An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.
  • Ability to explain complicated concepts to a variety of audiences and skill levels.
  • Outstanding presentation, written, verbal and closing skills.
  • Strong time management, organizational and decision-making skills.
  • Self-motivated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally.
  • Ability to work remotely and able and willing to travel on short notice, up to 50% of the time.
  • Possess the drive to succeed and to participate in the growth of an exciting, fast-paced company.

Nice to have

  • 10+ years of solution selling experience with significant experience selling software security and/or infrastructure security products to State and Local Governments as well as Higher Education
  • A Bachelor’s (BA/BS) or Master’s Degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native platform
  • protecting the Northeast against the most advanced attackers in the world
  • AI-native platform