Sales Engineering Manager - France

Zscaler
Paris
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: SalesExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Customer focus","Collaboration","Accountability"]

Lead the end-to-end technical sales process for the region, ensuring opportunities are qualified, progressed, and executed with the rigor of Sales Engineering best practices. Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Sales Engineers through hands-on deal engagement and structured development plans. Drive technical win rate and revenue growth initiatives, build executive customer relationships, and maintain deep expertise through continuous learning and relevant security, networking, cloud, and SaaS certifications.

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Sales Engineering Manager - France

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Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end technical sales process for the region, ensuring opportunities are qualified, progressed, and executed with the rigor of Sales Engineering best practices. Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Sales Engineers through hands-on deal engagement and structured development plans. Drive technical win rate and revenue growth initiatives, build executive customer relationships, and maintain deep expertise through continuous learning and relevant security, networking, cloud, and SaaS certifications.
Location: Paris
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Sales
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the end-to-end technical sales cycle across the region, ensuring qualified, rigorously executed opportunities with proof-of-value planning and success measurement.
  • •Lead, coach, and develop the Sales Engineering team through active deal engagement, development plans, and ongoing performance management.
  • •Drive business performance by improving technical win rates, accelerating sales cycles, increasing platform adoption, and contributing to revenue growth.
  • •Build and maintain relationships with customer executives and technical stakeholders, partnering with Sales leadership to align resources and regional growth strategies.
  • •Maintain technical expertise across current and emerging platform capabilities through continuous learning and certifications while attracting, developing, and retaining top talent.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeaveRetirementLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of enterprise pre-sales/solutions engineering experience (security, networking, cloud, or SaaS) across complex multi-stakeholder deals.
  • •2+ years leading, coaching, and developing Sales Engineers (hiring, performance management, and career growth).
  • •Fluency in both French and English (other European languages are advantageous).
  • •Ability to run the regional pre-sales motion including pipeline support, deal strategy, and forecasting partnership with Sales.
  • •Strong executive customer leadership with a deep security/networking foundation (e.g., Zero Trust, identity, secure connectivity, or cloud security), plus cross-functional collaboration and willingness to travel.
Experience:8+ yearsSaaSSecurityNetworkingCloud
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCustomer focusCollaborationAccountability
Languages:FrenchEnglish
Tech Stack:Zero Trust ExchangeSASE

Company Brief

Zscaler
Provides cloud-native security platform delivering secure access, threat protection, and zero trust services to organizations, enabling secure internet and private application access without traditional network appliances.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 2007
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