About the Role
This is an opportunity to build and lead Cato Networks' Sales Engineering organization across EMEA and play a central role in a fast-paced, high-growth business. Cato Networks is transforming networking and network security through a cloud-native platform that converges security and connectivity into a single global service. Our infrastructure spans five continents, our customer base is growing rapidly, and our teams work closely across sales, product, and customer-facing functions to help organizations modernize securely. If you are excited by building high-performing technical teams, shaping regional strategy, and helping customers adopt a new approach to secure networking, this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact.
Responsibilities
- Establish a clear vision, operating rhythm, and technical priorities for the Sales Engineering organization across EMEA.
- Lead, recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team of regional and in-country Sales Engineers and frontline managers.
- Partner closely with regional sales leadership to drive technical win rates, pipeline quality, and predictable revenue outcomes.
- Act as the executive technical sponsor for strategic opportunities, supporting complex evaluations, proof-of-value motions, and large customer engagements.
- Standardize pre-sales methodologies, discovery frameworks, demo excellence, and technical qualification practices across the region.
- Coach teams on business value selling, technical storytelling, competitive positioning, and executive-level customer engagement.
- Build strong relationships with channel, alliance, and service-provider technical teams to expand regional reach and execution quality.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Product Marketing, Customer Success, Support, and R&D to surface market feedback and influence roadmap priorities.
- Drive accurate inspection of technical pipeline, resource allocation, regional capacity planning, and risk management across the business.
- Represent Cato Networks externally through customer meetings, partner events, industry forums, and executive briefings.
- Create a culture of accountability, curiosity, teamwork, and technical excellence across the EMEA Sales Engineering function.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading pre-sales or Sales Engineering teams in cybersecurity, networking, SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, or adjacent cloud-delivered infrastructure markets.
- Strong track record of scaling and coaching distributed technical teams across multiple countries and cultures.
- Experience partnering with enterprise sales leadership on strategic deals and complex regional go-to-market motions.
- Ability to engage credibly with both executive buyers and deeply technical stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of security architectures, modern networking, and cloud-based platform adoption.
- Demonstrated success improving technical win rates, team performance, and pre-sales operating discipline.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
- Experience working cross-functionally with product and customer-facing teams to influence outcomes.
- Willingness to travel across EMEA as needed.
Skills
- cybersecurity
- networking
- SASE
- SSE
- SD-WAN
- cloud-delivered infrastructure
- security architectures
- modern networking
- cloud-based platform adoption
- business value selling
- technical storytelling
- competitive positioning
- executive-level customer engagement
Location
- EMEA
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- leadership experience
Education Level
- technical degree or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- Cato Networks is the first company to converge enterprise networking and security into one centralized and global service that is delivered by cloud.
- It is led by networking and security pioneer Shlomo Kramer (Check Point, Imperva) and early investor (Palo Alto Networks, Exabeam, Trusteer and more).
- Cato’s unique technology inspired a brand-new product category, later named “SASE” by Gartner and a market expected to reach $28.5 billion by 2028.
- This is an opportunity to build and lead Cato Networks' Sales Engineering organization across EMEA and play a central role in a fast-paced, high-growth business.
- At Cato Networks, we are transforming networking and network security through a cloud-native platform that converges security and connectivity into a single global service.
- Our infrastructure spans five continents, our customer base is growing rapidly, and our teams work closely across sales, product, and customer-facing functions to help organizations modernize securely.
