Senior Sales Engineer, Strategic Accounts (US West Coast)
Docker, Inc · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteSales$171k–$244k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead deep technical discovery across Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and AI/ML teams to understand:
- AI governance requirements
- Software supply chain risk posture
- Regulatory and compliance drivers (e.g., NIST AI Risk Management Framework, EU AI Act.)
- Secure development lifecycle requirements
- Shape technical requirements early in the sales cycle to align customer outcomes with Docker’s differentiated value in AI governance, container security, and software supply chain integrity.
- Design, position, and execute structured PoCs/PoVs focused on:
- Policy enforcement
- Image and artifact integrity
- SBOM visibility
- AI workload governance controls
- Secure build pipelines
- Define clear success criteria, evaluation frameworks, and executive-ready value summaries.
- Influence decision-making through demos, workshops, architecture reviews, and technical executive briefings.
- Translate complex AI security and governance capabilities into clear business value narratives for CISOs, Heads of Platform Engineering, and AI leaders.
- Establish credibility as a trusted advisor on:
- Responsible AI development practices
- Secure AI model lifecycle management
- Software supply chain integrity
- Container and artifact security
- DevSecOps best practices
- Guide customers in implementing governance controls across AI-enabled SDLC workflows.
- Provide architectural guidance for:
- Agentic AI development environments
- Policy-as-code enforcement
- Identity and access governance for AI workloads
- Act as a subject matter expert on secure software supply chain and AI security trends in customer-facing engagements.
- Proven experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solution Architect in complex enterprise sales.
- Strong experience running competitive PoCs/PoVs with clearly defined success and exit criteria.
- Ability to engage credibly with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, DevOps, and modern application architectures.
- Experience with Docker, container ecosystems, or adjacent technologies strongly preferred.
- Development, Agentic AI dev, Software Development Lifecycle and/or Software Supply Chain experience strongly preferred.
- Must be fluent in English.
- Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites up to 25%.