Enterprise Security Sales Specialist

Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?

Do you love collaborating across teams to deliver customer success?

Join our Enterprise Security Team

Our Enterprise Security team focuses on the development and selling of our network security solutions addressing micro-segmentation, secure remote access and authentication, and DNS threat protection. These solutions are key to our customers achieving an easy-to-manage, Zero Trust infrastructure and least privilege access model. Our goal is to secure, protect and accelerate all Enterprise communication as a cloud security service.

Partner with the best

As an Enterprise Security Specialist for existing accounts, you will be responsible for ensuring our existing Enterprise Security and Microsegmentation customers are engaged with our products and account team, successfully using our products and solutions to meet their security goals/requirements, and ultimately renewing, and hopefully growing, their contract with us.

As an Enterprise Security Specialist, you will be responsible for:

• Expanding contracts and licenses by enhancing solution usage and promoting additional security products to customers.
• Collaborating with Customer Success and account teams to identify obstacles and ensure smooth renewal processes.
• Gathering feedback from our customers to improve product development and customer retention.
• Collaborating with the Akamai account team to negotiate renewals, expand use cases, demonstrate value, and finalize paperwork.
• Monitoring and predicting churns, flat renewals, and upsells to internal teams using renewal business insights quarterly.
• Uncovering risk in accounts early and escalating risk to leadership when appropriate

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Show experience and success in a direct sales closing role, customer success role, or similar customer-facing role.
• Thrive in a team-oriented environment.
• Exhibit exceptional organizational and time-management abilities to prioritize tasks and meet tight deadlines effectively.
• Have excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills appropriate to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrate good knowledge of Internet or cloud technologies or cybersecurity concepts.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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