Role Description
Weβre looking for a Sales Representative to drive growth across the Chicago/Midwest region. Youβll own the full sales cycle: identifying prospects, building relationships, running demos, negotiating deals, and closing new business. This is an opportunity to join a category-defining company at the ground floor, building your territory while influencing how we sell as a team.
What You'll Do
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Own the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, demo, negotiate, and close
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Build and manage pipeline across assigned territory
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Develop account strategies in partnership with leadership
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Drive outbound prospecting and convert inbound leads
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Deliver compelling, tailored presentations and product demos
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Collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Customer Success for alignment and feedback
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Represent Harmonic at customer meetings and industry events
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Contribute to shaping our sales playbook and scaling best practices
Qualifications
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4-8+ years of quota-carrying B2B SaaS cybersecurity enterprise sales experience
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Experience selling to CIOs and CISOs with an average deal size of $100k+
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Track record of hitting or exceeding quota in a closing role
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Comfort with outbound prospecting and building a territory from scratch
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Strong communication, storytelling, and relationship-building skills
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Ability to manage complex sales cycles with technical and business stakeholders
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Organized, resourceful, and thrives in a startup environment (startup experience highly desired)
Benefits
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This isn't just a job, it's a chance to help define a category, and to build this chapter of the story from its first page.
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Recognized momentum: named to Rising in Cyber 2026, a signal the market is taking notice
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Rare market opportunity: join early in a category-defining company shaping how enterprises tackle one of tech's biggest unsolved problems
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Competitive pay and meaningful equity: a real stake in Harmonic's success, not a token gesture
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Comprehensive benefits: 401K, generous PTO
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A small, high-trust team: transparency, creativity, continuous learning, no politics, no bureaucracy
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Thoughtful leadership that cares about your growth, not just your output
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Annual global off-sites: past trips include Lisbon and Nashville
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Real ownership: you'll shape a new part of the company from day one