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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

To enable our continued trajectory as one of the world’s fastest growing Cyber Security vendors, we are seeking a dedicated, creative and tenacious Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist (sourcer) to join our hands-on recruitment team supporting business leaders across North America.

You will be responsible for attracting and securing outstanding Enterprise Field Sales candidates to work at Proofpoint.  In this role, you will be expected to identify, attract, and convert potential candidates into hires for sales roles at Proofpoint, all while providing an excellent candidate experience. With a focus on multiple verticals and customer sizes, this person will work closely with senior and principal recruiters to align on candidate skills and experience requirements to ensure alignment and effective sourcing.

this role requires 3 days a week in the Sunnyvale office.

Your day-to-day

Targeted sourcing for various sales positions across North America.Effective “seller” of the Proofpoint business to prospective candidatesPartner with recruiters and hiring managers in defining a recruitment strategy to source the best talent based on the business needs and goalsPartner with HR colleagues and stakeholders on HR programs and hiring initiativesIdentify, attract and hire high quality candidates through the development and implementation of innovative recruitment sourcing programs and strategiesCommunicate recruiting activity, challenges and results with hiring managers, recruiters, and the talent acquisition leadership teamReport on sourcing outputs, metrics, and prospect pipelinesLeverage ATS (Workday Recruit) and LinkedIn Recruiter for and candidate sourcing, organization, and communications

What you bring to the team

1-3 years of experience in SaaS sales sourcing and attraction methods, targeting talented sales executives within the technology sector, preferably in security, SaaS or InfrastructureProven ability to project manage multiple concurrent search assignmentsDemonstrate understanding of recruiter and hiring managers’ needs and identifying ‘A player’ sales talentExcellent negotiation skills with the ability to deliver a compelling vision and opportunity to prospective candidatesCollaborative, customer focused, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced result-oriented environmentProven track record of delivering recruitment assignments to tight timescalesExperience working with an Applicant Tracking System (Workday Recruit); Process-orientated and good attention to detailInfluential stakeholder and candidate management skills, including ability to manage internal leadership expectationsUncompromising desire to create an outstanding candidate experience

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 90,075.00 - 132,110.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 72,825.00 - 106,810.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 66,600.00 - 97,680.00 USD