Sr. Staff Technical Success Executive
United States · Remote · Full-time
- Posted 3w ago
- From SentinelOne’s careers page
- Location
- United States
- Work mode
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Department
- Customer Service
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Our Purpose
At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.
About Us
SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.
Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.
What Are We Looking For?
We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.
What Will You Do?
- Become the primary executive partner for strategically significant customer engagements, building trusted relationships with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, executive sponsors, architects, and operational leaders.
- Assume executive ownership of customer situations identified through the Early Warning System, Critical Accounts Program, Crisis Management, executive escalations, or executive leadership.
- Temporarily lead the customer strategy over the existing account team until the engagement reaches a successful resolution, ideally culminating in a successful renewal and transition back to the standard operating model.
- Develop and own Executive Recovery and Success Plans, defining technical milestones, executive engagement plans, commercial strategy, value realization objectives, and exit criteria.
- Lead technical recovery efforts for complex customer situations, including major incidents, product outages, deployment challenges, architecture reviews, competitive technical evaluations, and security operations concerns.
- Rapidly assess complex, multi-threaded technical issues, establish root cause hypotheses, and coordinate Product, Engineering, Support, Technical Account Management, and Professional Services around a unified technical recovery strategy.
- Drive technical value realization by ensuring customers achieve measurable business outcomes from their SentinelOne investment.
- Partner directly with Product Management, Engineering, Technical Support, and Architecture teams to remove technical blockers, prioritize customer-critical issues, influence solution direction, and accelerate recovery for strategic customer situations.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Support, Professional Services, Sales, Renewals, Product, Engineering, and Executive Leadership.
- Build and lead executive relationships with customer stakeholders, creating alignment, restoring confidence, and ensuring technical and commercial objectives remain synchronized throughout the engagement.
- Provide executive-level technical guidance to customer stakeholders, translating complex engineering issues into clear business impact, recovery plans, and value realization strategies.
- Participate directly in renewal negotiations, contract strategy, commercial structuring, pricing strategy, and multi-year planning to achieve the right long-term outcome for both the customer and SentinelOne.
- Identify recurring technical, operational, and commercial trends and provide structured feedback to Product, Engineering, Customer Experience, and GTM leadership.
- Serve as SentinelOne's executive escalation leader during strategically significant customer situations.
What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?
Ideal candidates will have:
- Customer- and outcome-oriented mindset with a passion for solving complex enterprise customer challenges.
- 10 or more years of experience in Enterprise Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Professional Services, Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Strategic Accounts, Consulting, or comparable executive customer-facing roles.
- Proven experience leading executive customer engagements involving complex technical, operational, or commercial challenges.
- Demonstrated experience leading customers through major technical incidents, executive escalations, platform outages, or complex enterprise deployments.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to establish credibility quickly with Fortune 500 technology and business leaders.
- Deep technical expertise in enterprise cybersecurity platforms, endpoint protection, cloud security, identity, SIEM, MDR, networking, or adjacent security technologies, with the ability to quickly understand complex customer environments and technical architectures.
- Ability to engage as a trusted technical advisor with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Security Architects, SOC leaders, Engineering leaders, and executive business stakeholders while translating technical complexity into executive decision-making.
- Strong commercial acumen, including enterprise renewals, contract negotiations, executive commercial strategy, and long-term customer planning.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional execution without direct authority.
- Ability to rapidly synthesize information across Product, Engineering, Support, telemetry, and customer environments to develop practical recovery strategies.
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to manage multiple technical workstreams simultaneously while maintaining executive-level customer confidence.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple high-profile customer engagements simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in a Critical Accounts Program (CAP), executive customer advocacy, enterprise customer recovery, or similar strategic customer engagement program is preferred.
- Experience as a Principal Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect, Consulting Architect, Escalation Manager, Customer Reliability Engineer, or similar highly technical customer-facing leadership role is preferred.
- Previous Customer Success leadership, Strategic Account Management, or Professional Services leadership experience is preferred.
- Experience partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Technical Support organizations is preferred.
- Hands-on experience managing customer recovery during major incidents, platform outages, or enterprise-scale technical escalations is preferred.
- Executive relationship management experience with Fortune 500 customers is preferred.
- Cybersecurity industry experience is preferred.
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About SentinelOne
Autonomous cybersecurity for enterprisesSentinelOne provides cybersecurity software for endpoint, cloud and identity protection, threat detection and automated response.
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