Director, Enterprise Sales Engineer (West)

Get to Know Us

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

About the Role

Horizon3.ai is redefining how organizations defend themselves against modern cyber threats. Our autonomous security platform, NodeZero, helps organizations proactively identify and remediate exploitable weaknesses before attackers do.

We’re looking for an Enterprise Sales Engineering Leader to lead and scale a high-performing team of Sales Engineers supporting our Enterprise business. This leader will be responsible for developing the team, driving consistent technical execution across complex sales cycles, and partnering closely with Enterprise Sales leadership to improve customer engagement, technical validation, and win rates.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can coach and develop Sales Engineers while also stepping into strategic opportunities when needed. The ideal candidate brings strong cybersecurity experience, Enterprise pre-sales leadership experience, and the ability to build the processes and operating rhythms needed to scale in a fast-growing environment.

What You’ll Do

Lead and Develop the Enterprise SE Team

Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Enterprise Sales Engineers

Define clear expectations, performance standards, and success measures across the team

Build a culture of accountability, technical excellence, customer focus, and strong partnership with Sales

Coach SEs across technical discovery, demonstrations, PoV execution, deal strategy, executive communication, and competitive positioning

Build onboarding, development, and coaching rhythms that enable the team to grow alongside the business

Drive Enterprise Technical Sales Execution

Establish a consistent, high-quality technical sales motion across Enterprise opportunities

Ensure the team delivers strong discovery and technical qualification that uncovers customer infrastructure, security maturity, risk priorities, and business needs

Drive rigor around PoV strategy, success criteria, execution, and technical validation

Ensure demos and technical engagements clearly connect NodeZero’s capabilities to customer outcomes, including exposure reduction, compliance alignment, and operational efficiency

Coach SEs through technical objections, competitive situations, and complex customer environments

Serve as a strategic technical leader on critical Enterprise opportunities, helping teams navigate complex evaluations and move technical decisions forward

Build Strong AE/SE Partnerships

Partner closely with Enterprise Sales leadership to align SE resources to the highest-impact opportunities

Establish clear expectations for AE/SE partnership, ownership, and accountability throughout the sales cycle

Help teams develop strong technical deal strategies that support pipeline progression and improve win rates

Partner with Sales leaders to identify risks within strategic opportunities and proactively determine where leadership involvement is needed

Elevate Enterprise Customer Engagement

Develop a team capable of building trusted relationships with security practitioners, technical leaders, CISOs, and executive stakeholders

Coach SEs to move beyond product demonstrations and lead consultative conversations around customer risk, security priorities, and business outcomes

Ensure the team can simplify complex cybersecurity concepts while maintaining technical credibility with sophisticated Enterprise customers

Support executive and strategic customer conversations when needed

Ensure appropriate technical continuity through the customer lifecycle, from pre-sales evaluation through handoff, adoption, and potential expansion

Develop strong presenters across the team and represent Horizon3.ai in public-speaking engagements, including customer events, conferences, webinars, and other industry forums

Scale the Enterprise SE Organization

Build repeatable processes, playbooks, and operating rhythms that improve consistency without slowing down the field

Establish inspection rhythms across pipeline, technical evaluations, PoVs, and strategic opportunities

Use data and field insights to understand SE capacity, performance, technical win rates, PoV effectiveness, and areas for improvement

Contribute to headcount planning, territory and coverage design, and organizational scaling decisions

Continuously evolve the Enterprise SE model as the company, product, and customer base grow

Partner Cross-Functionally

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Product Marketing, and other Sales Engineering leaders to improve customer outcomes and field execution

Ensure customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and recurring technical challenges are effectively communicated back into the business

Partner with Customer Success to create strong technical handoffs while maintaining continuity with strategic accounts

Work with Channel Sales Engineering to support Enterprise opportunities involving partners

Contribute to technical enablement, knowledge sharing, demo strategy, and field best practices across the broader SE organization

What You’ll Bring

8+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or similar technical go-to-market roles, with meaningful experience in cybersecurity

3+ years of experience leading customer-facing technical teams

Demonstrated success leading Sales Engineers supporting complex Enterprise accounts and sales cycles

Strong cybersecurity foundation and the ability to credibly engage on topics such as networking, cloud security, identity and Active Directory, vulnerability management, security operations, and the broader threat landscape

Experience coaching teams through technical discovery, demonstrations, structured PoVs, competitive evaluations, and technical deal strategy

Strong understanding of how effective AE/SE partnerships contribute to pipeline progression and revenue outcomes

Track record of developing technical talent and raising the performance of both individuals and teams

Ability to communicate credibly with security practitioners while translating complex technical concepts into business value for executive audiences

Strong executive presence and the ability to step directly into strategic customer engagements when needed

Experience building processes and operating rhythms that improve execution as an organization scales

Highly collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading Enterprise Sales Engineering teams within a cybersecurity company

Experience supporting large, complex organizations with multiple technical and executive stakeholders

Experience scaling a Sales Engineering o