Regional Manager - New Zealand
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SentinelOne is seeking a Regional Manager for New Zealand in Auckland as a founding employee who will own the go-to-market motion, build a direct sales channel and partner ecosystem, and partner with Marketing and Product on demand generation. The role requires 5+ years selling enterprise SaaS security with above quota success, MEDDPICC experience, and strong leadership and communication with CISOs and other VPs. You’ll run the full sales process, forecast weekly, and beat quotas while growing channel partnerships. To apply, quantify pipeline and quota attainment on your resume, highlight channel wins and hypergrowth results, and show a proactive, learning mindset and NZ-market readiness.
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.
This is a rare opportunity to be SentinelOne's founding employee in New Zealand. You won't just carry a quota — you'll shape the market. You'll own the full go-to-market motion: building a direct sales channel, developing partner ecosystems including managed security service providers, and collaborating with Marketing and Product to design and execute demand generation campaigns that land. You'll be the face of SentinelOne in a high-growth, competitive cybersecurity market.
We're looking for candidates with hands-on experience selling cybersecurity solutions across endpoint, identity, cloud or data security.
What will you do?
Primary responsibilities include:
- Run a sophisticated sales process from prospecting to closure in collaboration across the organization
- Partner with our channel team to drive both net-new and recurring revenue
- Partner with channel managers to build pipeline and grow revenue for the assigned territory
- Be an influential partner for customers within the cybersecurity industry and become an expert of SentinelOne products
- Stay well educated and informed about SentinelOne's competitive landscape and how to sell the value of our solutions and competitive differentiation
- Prepare and provide accurate forecasts to management on a weekly basis
- Consistently meet, or exceed sales quotas
What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?
Ideal candidates will have:
- 5+ years of previous experience selling to Enterprise accounts, ideally in a MEDDPICC, business-to-business SaaS environment
- 5+ years of above-quota sales experience, preferably as a Sales Executive/Manager
- Strong communication and presentation skills, both internally and externally; ability to engage with a variety of technical and business leaders
- Passionate about sales, the cybersecurity industry, and technology
- Experience in a hypergrowth environment, preferred
- Experience building new pipeline of customers while fostering relationships with existing customers
- Deep understanding of the cybersecurity solutions sought by Enterprise customers, CISO and other C-Suite Officers
- Ability to identify and articulate competitve differentition and customer value proposition
- Superb organizational and reporting skills, Salesforce experience preferred
- Leadership skills that drive results - Fostering an ecosystem of people including sales engineers, channel, marketing, executive sponsors, immediate management, procurement, etc. to effectively advance enterprise sales campaigns to close
- "Whatever it takes" attitude and drive to deliver above-quota performance
- Self-motivated, constant learner, and ability to receive feedback
- Experience working with channel and alliance partners and a strong understanding of a channel-centric GTM approaches
- Receptive to feedback and eager to learn
Why SentinelOne?
AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.
We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:
Equity & Rewards
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Time Off & Wellbeing
- Competitive leave benefits
- Gender-neutral parental leave
Work Perks & Flexibility
- Global home office allowance
SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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