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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People.

The Role and the Team

[Department Overview]: Proofpoint’s Advanced Technologies business unit is one of the highest growth unit in the company. Our mission is to protect our customers from risks associated with activity and behavior, protect against data loss across endpoints, network, and Cloud accounts, and accelerate the time it takes for companies to respond to security incidents.

We are on the leading edge of data, system, and Cloud protection serving some of the largest and most influential brands in the world. Our people-centric platform is an industry first, led by innovative technologies that solves some of the biggest problems in the industry.

[Role Overview]: This Sales Specialist with be the primary sales interface to our customers and prospects in Japan. Reporting to the APJ Head of our Advanced Technologies business unit, this role will work collectively with the Proofpoint sales teams, as well as direct customer engagement in the region, to drive growth in a variety of Advanced Technologies suite of solutions like Email Fraud Defense and other new products we have in the pipeline.

This role will create a strategy based on the addressable market, align the needed resources to support that strategy (internal teams, channel, distribution), and work cross-functionally to deliver some of the most exciting and innovative solutions in the industry. This quota carrying role will be joining one of the fastest growing regions in the company, in the fastest growing business unit. As such, this role is vital to the success of the region and any candidate should be self-motivated and results oriented.

Job Requirements

• Strategic Thinking: Provide a long-term plan for the growth of the region which will guide all monthly and quarterly activities.

• Collaborative: Work with other company resources to implement the strategic plan though an effective sales engagement process.

• Financial Command: Provide actuate and ongoing financial forecasting that meets both short-term and long-term growth goals.

• Customer Engagement: Work closely with customers to ensure all business and technical goals are met, and customer satisfaction goals are achieved. Work with prospects in the region to generate demand, create pipeline, and acquire new customers.

• Culture fit: Help support a culture of accountability and fun. This role will be a critical part of the Japan-based Proofpoint team.

• Experience developing financial and addressable market plans, forecasting, and CRM discipline.

• Success with demand generation activities, customer meetings and presentations, and overall financial growth of the region.

• Effective channel engagement process driving scale and growth through indirect sales motions.

• Dynamic interpersonal skills supporting effective customer and prospect engagement, internal alignment, and success as the ambassador for the Information Protection business unit in the region.

• Successful track record of growing the Japan enterprise market with leading technological and security solutions.

• Business English proficiency and Native Japanese proficiency preferred

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtPFPT

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.