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Full-Time

Head of Solutions Engineering

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Stairwell

Stairwell

51-200 employees

Automated threat detection and response solutions

Cybersecurity

Compensation Overview

$200k - $245kAnnually

Expert

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Category
Solution Engineering
Sales & Solution Engineering
Required Skills
Sales
Communications
Requirements
  • 10+ years in sales engineering or solutions engineering roles, preferably in Security or SaaS companies.
  • Proven leadership experience, with a track record of building and managing high-performing teams.
  • Strong knowledge of cybersecurity trends and technologies.
  • Excellent presentation, demo, and communication skills.
  • Experience providing pre- and post-sales technical support, creating strategic relationships with key stakeholders, and delivering customer training.
  • Ability to engage with internal teams (Sales, Security Operations, Product Management) and customers to ensure success criteria are met.
Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor the solutions engineering team, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
  • Build out playbooks for successful customer engagements.
  • Present and demonstrate our technical value to prospects, and oversee the onboarding of new customers to the Stairwell platform.
  • Engage deeply with product teams, providing near real-time customer feedback to drive continuous improvement.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive knowledge base, capturing new learning for reuse throughout the company and user base.
  • Participate in technical communications within the team to share best practices and learn about new technologies and complementary security applications.
  • Map identified customer business requirements to workable solution architectures.
  • Ensure the success of customer deployments and integrations, advocating for customer needs and resolving issues promptly.
  • Focus on maintaining and growing customer relationships, ensuring value delivery, and minimizing churn.

Stairwell offers automated threat detection and response solutions through its cloud-based platform, which uses binary-level analysis to identify threats. The platform allows businesses to create queries and utilize over 4,200 YARA rules to detect threats at their source without impacting system performance. Unlike competitors, Stairwell focuses on empowering security teams and reducing investigation costs, aiming to make expensive threat assessments unnecessary. The company's goal is to enhance the efficiency of security operations, enabling clients to manage threats more effectively.

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$69.5M

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

2019

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

6%

1 year growth

6%

2 year growth

42%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The recent $45M Series B funding round indicates strong investor confidence and provides resources for further innovation and growth.
  • Availability on Google Cloud Marketplace expands Stairwell's reach and makes it easier for organizations to integrate its platform.
  • Strategic hires like Joe DeBlasio and John Yun bring experienced leadership to drive sales and marketing efforts, potentially accelerating market penetration.

What critics are saying

  • The cybersecurity market is highly competitive, with numerous established players that could overshadow Stairwell's offerings.
  • Rapid scaling and integration of new hires and strategies may lead to operational challenges and potential misalignment.

What makes Stairwell unique

  • Stairwell's platform uses static and dynamic binary-level analysis, providing a depth of threat detection that many competitors lack.
  • The company's evasion-resistant architecture ensures that even previously removed threats are detected, setting it apart from traditional cybersecurity solutions.
  • Stairwell's extensive library of over 4,200 YARA rules allows for highly customizable and precise threat hunting.