Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Sales Engineer

ThePost-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Sales Engineerserves as a specialized overlay technical resource responsible for helping enterprise customers modernize their cryptographic infrastructure and prepare for the transition to quantum-safe security. This individual partners with regional Sales Engineers and Account Executives to articulate the technical value of Sectigo’s solutions through customer discovery, solution architecture, technical presentations, cryptographic assessments, Proof of Concepts (PoCs), and hands-on implementation activities.

This senior level professional possesses exceptional technical, presentation, consulting, and communication skills, enabling strategic customers to assess their current cryptographic environments, understand modernization opportunities, and develop practical adoption strategies that align with their security, compliance, and business objectives.

This is a full-time, remote role, and we’re ideally looking for someone based in the greater London area. The target compensation range is between GBP 120K to 160K, with an 80/20 split between base salary and commission, depending on your experience and background. We also review compensation based on market trends, business needs, and the scope of the territory, so there may be flexibility for the right candidate.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted strategic advisor to CISOs, enterprise architects, PKI administrators, security teams, and executive stakeholders, guiding customers through cryptographic modernization and quantum readiness initiatives.
• Partner with regional Sales Engineers and Account Executives to identify, develop, and support strategic opportunities involving cryptographic modernization, Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), Private PKI, and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
• Lead technical discovery engagements to assess customer cryptographic environments, certificate inventories, trust relationships, enterprise PKI architectures, and machine identities.
• Conduct cryptographic and quantum readiness assessments, helping customers identify risks, prioritize modernization efforts, and develop practical migration strategies.
• Deliver executive presentations, technical workshops, demonstrations, and architectural reviews that communicate both the immediate and long-term value of Sectigo’s security solutions.
• Provide deep technical guidance during architecture reviews and solution design, ensuring deployments align with customer requirements, security best practices, and enterprise architecture standards.
• Lead Proof of Concept (PoC) engagements by planning, deploying, configuring, implementing, and validating Sectigo solutions within customer environments.
• Perform hands-on implementation activities including deployment of discovery technologies, technical integrations, connector configuration, and validation as required during customer engagements.
• Bridge the gap between technology and business objectives by helping customers understand the value of cryptographic modernization, Certificate Lifecycle Management, and machine identity security.
• Assist with sales proposals, Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Proposal (RFPs), and Requests for Information (RFIs), ensuring technical accuracy and competitive differentiation.
• Develop and refine repeatable methodologies, assessment frameworks, technical playbooks, reference architectures, and best practices supporting Sectigo’s cryptographic modernization practice.
• Contribute to the SE Readiness Program by developing subject matter expertise, sharing technical best practices, maintaining current knowledge of assigned solutions, and delivering technical enablement to the field organization.
• Work closely with Product Management and Engineering, providing field-driven feedback to influence future product capabilities, customer experience, and solution strategy.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Customer Success, Professional Services, and Strategic Alliances to support solution adoption, partner enablement, and customer success.
• Represent Sectigo as a technical thought leader by participating in customer workshops, executive briefings, conferences, webinars, industry events, and technical content development.
• Work in a fast-paced environment under minimal supervision.
• Willing to travel regionally and internationally for customer-facing activities, strategic partner engagements, conferences, and internal planning sessions.
• Participate in strategic alliance initiatives, strengthening relationships with technology partners and strategic customers.
• Additional responsibilities and special projects as assigned.
• Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Sectigois the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering solutions that help the world’s largest brands simplify how digital trust is managed and scaled. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across enterprise environments, enabling organizations to reduce complexity, accelerate time to value, and strengthen security across environments. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers, including 65% of the Fortune 500. Sectigo holds six combined active leadership seats in the CA/Browser Forum and ETSI and brings two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

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How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values – Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you.