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# Renewals Sales Specialist at DigiCert

- **Company:** DigiCert
- **Location:** Cape Town, South Africa
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://www.digicert.com/careers/?gh_jid=8811876002

## Job description

## Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at [www.digicert.com](http://www.digicert.com/)

Job summary

As a Renewal Sales Specialist, you will be responsible for coverage in the region and driving renewals of the largest segment of DigiCert's customer base, delivering incremental revenue growth and bringing in net new business.

## What you will do

- Building & Fostering Strong Relationships – Working closely with your in-region Account Manager(s), develop a deep relationship with strategic DigiCert customers, focusing on increasing adoption, ensuring retention, and long-term success solving technology challenges.
- Active Listening – Enhance mutual understanding in communicating with others by expressing genuine interest in, and providing full attention to, the content and meaning of others’ messages, realizing opportunities to expand DigiCert’s reach.
- Information Seeking – Driven by an underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. This involves going beyond routine questions and includes digging or pressing for exact information; resolving discrepancies by asking a series of questions; or conducting less- focused environmental scanning for opportunities or miscellaneous information that may be used in the future.
- Influence and Persuasion – Effective in persuading, convincing, influencing, or impressing others to get them to support a specific agenda, make a specific type of impression, or take a specific course of action.
- Composure and Resiliency – Able to deal effectively with pressure, maintain focus and intensity, and remain optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. They have the ability and propensity to recover quickly from setbacks, rejections, and conflicts and to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation.
- Organizational Savvy – Gather and accurately assess information related to the organization’s formal and informal communication channels and power relationships.
- Territory: Southern or Central Europe (Second language is strongly preferred (German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian).

## What you will have

- 2+ years of experience managing full sales cycle (inside or field sales) in the software space (SaaS Sales preferred) within large Enterprise.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Professional working proficiency in German, additional language a plus.
- SaaS Sales experience in the region will be very advantageous.
- Proactive in adopting sales best practices and a leader in process adherence.
- Can demonstrate market and industry knowledge and recognizes changing market trends.
- Excellent objection handling and negotiating abilities.
- Driven to invest time in self-education that can be applied in a professional context.
- Demonstrates the ability to link corporate strategic goals to customer facing solutions.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work alongside multiple team members.
- Proven record of meeting/exceeding established goals.
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal stakeholders.
- Highly resourceful when need to overcome barriers and objections.
- Ability to communicate with all levels within customer/prospect’s organization.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation, including uncapped commission (role-dependent)
- Achievers Club awards and performance-based incentives
- Pension and retirement benefits (location dependent)
- Life insurance and income protection coverage
- Comprehensive health and wellness support, including medical coverage (where applicable), gym reimbursement, and mental wellbeing resources
- Employee Assistance Program with 24/7 confidential support for employees and their families
- Generous paid time off, including holidays and additional leave options
- Family-friendly leave policies, including maternity, paternity, and other supportive leave programs
- Education assistance and professional development opportunities
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and continuous learning resources
- Employee referral bonus program and additional company perks and discounts
- Business travel insurance and global employee support programs

To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.

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## About DigiCert

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent digital trust, securing people, data, and devices with AI-powered PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (later stage, total funding $9.3M reported but likely outdated)
- **Headquarters**: Lehi, Utah, USA
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cybersecurity, Digital Trust, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Certificate Lifecycle Management, DNS Security
- Target customers: B2B, primarily large enterprises (90%+ of Fortune 500), government, and service providers; over 125,000 customers in 180+ countries
- Mission or purpose statement: "Make digital trust endure" – built to secure identities, communications, and integrity across infrastructure, applications, devices, and AI agents.

## Products & Services
- **DigiCert ONE Platform**: AI-powered platform that unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content, and agents. (Type: SaaS / Platform)
- **PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)**: Core digital certificate issuance, validation, and management for organizations. (Type: SaaS + Service)
- **DNS Security**: Protection against DNS-based threats; recognized by Frost & Sullivan 2026 Global DNS Security Competitive Strategy Leadership Award. (Type: SaaS)
- **IoT Device Security**: Securing device identity and communication for the Internet of Things. (Type: SaaS)
- **Software Trust / Content Provenance**: Ensuring integrity of software supply chains and digital content authenticity. (Type: SaaS)
- **Post-Quantum Security**: Preparing for quantum-safe cryptography readiness. (Type: Service / Platform capability)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not publicly available; strongest fiscal year to date reported in 2025 under CEO Dr. Amit Sinha
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources; customers include 90%+ of Fortune 500. DigiCert partners with industry standards bodies (CA/Browser Forum, IETF, ETSI).
- **Growth Signals**: 1,372 total employees (Built In, 2025); offices in Lehi (HQ), Bengaluru, London, Sunnyvale, Singapore; over 125,000 customers; recent awards include Frost & Sullivan 2026 Global DNS Security Award, IoT Evolution World 2025 Product of the Year and IoT Security Excellence Award, SiliconANGLE 2025 TechForward Award Finalist.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-powered platform** that provides end-to-end visibility, automation, and control for certificate and trust management.
- **Industry standards leadership** – DigiCert executives actively shape digital trust standards through CA/Browser Forum, IETF, and ETSI.
- **Unified PKI + DNS + certificate management** in a single platform, reducing complexity for large enterprises.
- **Quantum-ready** approach, preparing customers for post-quantum security transitions.
- **Trust ecosystem** – trusted by the world’s most security-conscious organizations (Fortune 500, critical infrastructure).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and quantum readiness**: Building intelligent trust for the AI age and preparing for quantum-safe cryptography.
- **Automation and resilience**: Reducing manual certificate management via AI-driven lifecycle automation.
- **Platform expansion**: DigiCert ONE as the unified trust control plane for identity, devices, software, and content.
- **Global growth**: Expanding presence in key markets (EMEA, APAC) and deepening enterprise partnerships.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "CARE" values – Customer Obsession, Amazing Innovation, Relentless Execution, Exceptional Collaboration. Emphasis on trust, collaboration, and impact.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Parity pledge (interview at least one qualified woman for every open role); active Women in Tech chapter with mentorship programs; diversity-based Employee Resource Groups.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Primarily in-office roles (HQ Lehi and Bengaluru offices); some positions may allow flexibility. Built In lists "Employees work from physical offices."
- **Benefits**: Performance bonuses, employee discounts, generous parental leave, family medical leave, dental insurance, health insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), tuition assistance, apprenticeship programs, job training + conferences, free snacks and drinks.
- **Growth & Development**: Opportunities to work on cutting-edge security technology (AI, quantum, IoT); strong focus on professional development and internal mobility.
- **Community**: STEM education partnership with Thanksgiving Point in Utah, supporting real-world science and engineering challenges for local students.

## Sources
1. [DigiCert Careers](https://www.digicert.com/careers)
2. [DigiCert About](https://www.digicert.com/about)
3. [DigiCert CARE Commitment](https://www.digicert.com/about/care)
4. [Built In Profile](https://builtin.com/company/digicert)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/digicert-inc-)

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