Director, Enterprise Solutions Engineering, Americas
About Semgrep
Semgrep is on a mission to make it expensive to exploit software. As the team behind the most popular SAST, we built the Semgrep AppSec Platform to deliver industry-leading code, dependency, and secrets scanning to enable organizations to ship secure code quickly without slowing down development.
With fast, customizable code analysis across large codebases, Semgrep helps teams catch vulnerabilities early and fix them faster. Leading companies like Snowflake, Plaid, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox rely on Semgrep to secure their software.
Semgrep is funded by top investors, including Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
About the role
As Senior Manager of Solutions Engineering at Semgrep, you'll lead our Enterprise Solutions Engineering team for North America during a pivotal growth phase. You'll report to the Head of Solutions engineering in this role and manage a distributed team of Enterprise Solutions Engineers across North America, ensuring full coverage of our expanding enterprise pipeline. You'll be instrumental in shaping Semgrep's go-to-market strategy, driving product innovation based on enterprise customer needs, and building out and scaling the Enterprise SE team as the gold standard for technical excellence in the security industry.
What you'll do
Lead and Scale the Enterprise SE Team
- Recruit, retain, develop and coach top SE talent as we expand from our current team to meet growing enterprise demand.
- Drive performance and coaching by setting clear performance expectations and goal setting, and career development for team members.
- Establish standardized processes, playbooks, and best practices for enterprise technical sales.
Drive Enterprise Customer Success
- Own the technical validation strategy for large, complex enterprise accounts
- Ensure seamless POV experiences that accelerate deal cycles and increases win rates
- Work directly with strategic accounts when needed on POV engagements, demonstrating technical leadership
- Collaborate with Account Executives and sales leadership to develop winning strategies for multi-stakeholder enterprise deals
Shape Product and Go-to-Market Strategy
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to drive enterprise-focused innovations
- Collect and prioritize customer feature requests and feedback to influence Semgrep's product roadmap
- Contribute to thought leadership through content creation, speaking engagements, and industry participation
- Provide market insights to inform pricing, positioning, and competitive strategy
Build Organizational Excellence
- Develop and maintain SE enablement programs, training materials, and technical resources
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve customer experience and operational efficiency
- Establish metrics and reporting to track SE team performance and customer impact
- Represent the SE organization in leadership meetings and strategic planning sessions
- You demand high performance. You hire, train, and retain exceptional talent in your organization. You do not tolerate mediocrity.
- You are reliable in providing high precision forecasts, and meet or beat your targets consistently.
- You own their business. You are a critical thinker. You have a complete mastery of your products, the industry, and customers. You are always one step ahead of the CRO for your segment.
- You have a bias toward action: You have a very strong sense of urgency and know what to focus on during challenging times. You do not shy away from making difficult decisions fast.
- You are obsessed with excellence. You have a high quality pipeline and you know how to reliably generate new pipeline. You know the left, right, and the middle of all your deals. Your team operates with boring excellence.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Solutions engineering leadership experience managing distributed teams with startup experience preferred
- Deep understanding of complex enterprise sales cycles, with proven success leading technical validation processes, POVs, and executive engagement at the C-level and senior security leadership level.
- Strong background in cybersecurity, DevSecOps, or developer tooling, with experience in static analysis, code scanning, or security testing tools
- Embodies the 3H's (Hands-on, Humble, Hungry) with excellent communication skills, startup experience, and genuine passion for security and developer experience
- Willingness to travel up to 25% periodically based on customer and business need
Compensation
- Compensation Range: $270,000 - $316,000 OTE uncapped
- Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.
What we offer
Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure theyre above the average for comparable roles.
We also invest in our employees well-being and long term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that youre taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether thats quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.
Who we are
We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. Were new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.
Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value whats vitally important to you your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If youre exceptional in your role, believe in Semgreps mission, and treat Semgreps values as your own, you belong here.
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