SASE Sales Director - Telco Service Providers

SASE Sales Director - Telco Service Providers

This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

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HPE Networking is forming a new, high-impact sales leadership role to build and run a focused security-selling organization across the Telco Service Provider (SP) segments. Reporting to senior networking leadership, you will own strategy, team build-out, channel motion, and revenue for security products including SASE, SRX, SD-Branch, NAC variants, ClearPass, SSR, etc.). This is a hybrid sales model: your team will run end-to-end for part of the portfolio and work closely with core sellers on the remainder to drive cross-sell and scale.

This position will require approximately 50% nationwide travel.

Primary Responsibilities

• Hire and lead a team of 68 sales specialists (majority North America, some Europe) by year-end; we are hiring the leader first to define structure and go-to-market.
• Own P&L and revenue targets for Telco SP security bookings through channel partners.
• Build and execute go-to-market strategies for security solutions across cloud providers, service providers, and high-tech accounts.
• Establish and deepen channel partner relationships and enablement across the portfolio.
• Collaborate with core sellers, product, and marketing to align sales plays and accelerate pipeline.

Experience and Skills

• Proven senior sales leader (manager of managers preferred) with experience building and scaling field sales teams from scratch.
• Deep channel expertiseexperience selling through partners is essential.
• Demonstrated success selling to service providers, cloud providers, or large enterprise/high-tech accounts.
• Strong background in security product sales and software/enterprise license agreements.
• Strategic thinker with hands-on selling experience and ability to operate in a hybrid direct/collaborative model.
• Existing relationships in the security ecosystem (partners and customers) are a plus.
• Experience with SASE, NAC, SRX, SD-Branch, or related networking/security portfolios would be helpful but not required.

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. United States of America: Annual Salary USD 269,000 - 537,000 in Massachusetts // 236,500 - 573,000 in District of Columbia & Georgia & Illinois & Maryland & New Jersey & North Carolina & Texas & VirginiaThis range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 50%/50%.

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