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Manager, Sales Engineering - SLED

AI summary of the role

Cohesity seeks a Sales Engineering Manager to lead and coach a small team of Sales Engineers supporting SLED (State, Local, and Education) customers in the US.

No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.

What you’ll do

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Sales Engineers, supporting their technical development and customer engagement skills throughout the sales cycle.
  • Partner with Sales Managers to support new customer opportunities, providing hands-on technical guidance and ensuring high-quality pre-sales support.
  • Support customer engagements across Cohesity’s Data Cloud portfolio, including backup, recovery, cyber resilience, and data security.
  • Assist with RFPs, RFIs, proposals, and deal support, ensuring timely and accurate technical responses.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience supporting SLED environments, including public-sector IT, security, and infrastructure teams.
  • Prior experience managing or mentoring Sales Engineers, or serving as a technical team lead in pre-sales, infrastructure, data protection, or security.
  • Strong technical foundation in enterprise data protection, backup and recovery, or cyber resilience technologies.
  • Working knowledge of on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Technologies

Cohesity Data Cloud · backup · recovery · cyber resilience · data security · RFP · RFI · proof of concept · CISSP · CISA

About Cohesity

AI-powered data security platform helping enterprises protect, recover, govern, and extract insights from backup data across on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and edge.

Private Late · 5000+ people

Source and classification

Technical pre-sales · Evidence for this classification:

and support a small team of Sales Engineers within the region. In this role, you will focus on hands‑on coaching, supporting pre‑sales execution, and assisting the team on complex customer opportunities. You will play a key role in helping customers successfully evaluate and adopt Cohesity’s data security and management solutions, while developing your leadership capability and supporting strong sales outcomes through high‑quality technical engagement. HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE: Lead, coach, and develop a team of Sales Engineers, supporting their technical development, customer engagement skills, and execution throughout the sales cycle. Partner closely with Sales Managers to support new customer opportunities, providing hands‑on technical guidance and ensuring high‑quality pre‑sales support across assigned territories. Support customer engagements across Cohesity’s Data Cloud
More from the job description

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the indefinite right to work in the job location. Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are seeking a Sales Engineering Manager to lead and support a small team of Sales Engineers within the region. In this role, you will focus on hands‑on coaching, supporting pre‑sales execution, and assisting the team on complex customer opportunities. You will play a key role in helping customers successfully evaluate and adopt Cohesity’s data security and management solutions, while developing your leadership capability and supporting strong sales outcomes through high‑quality technical engagement. HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE: Lead, coach [... source excerpt omitted ...] Sales Engineers, supporting their technical development, customer engagement skills, and execution throughout the sales cycle. Partner closely with Sales Managers to support new customer opportunities, providing hands‑on technical guidance and ensuring high‑quality pre‑sales support across assigned territories. Support customer engagements across Cohesity’s Data Cloud portfolio, including backup, recovery, cyber resilience, and data security, ensuring solutions align with customer technical and business requirements. Assist with RFPs, RFIs, proposals, and deal support, ensuring timely, accurate, and well‑positioned technical responses in collaboration with Sales and Partners. [... source excerpt omitted ...] ta security needs. Ensure consistent delivery of product demonstrations, technical workshops, and proofs of concept, supporting SEs in demonstrating both product capabilities and customer value. Identify technical challenges during pre‑sales and early customer engagements, escalating and collaborating with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support teams to drive resolution. Provide hands‑on coaching and guidance to Sales Engineers during complex deals, customer meetings, and evaluations, acting as a point of escalation when needed. WE’D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING: Experience supporting SLED environments, including working with public‑sector IT, secu

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