--- title: 'Sales Engineer, Mid Market UKI at Abnormal' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sales-engineer-mid-market-uki-abnormal-united-kingdom-ehewaytz9j7k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Sales Engineer, Mid Market UKI at Abnormal - **Company:** Abnormal - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://abnormal.ai/careers/jobs/7886250003?gh_jid=7886250003 ## Job description ## About the Role Abnormal AI is seeking a Mid-Market Sales Engineer to join our growing Mid-Market Sales Engineering team, with a focus on supporting customers across the UK & Nordics region. Based in the UK, this role will work closely with our Mid-Market Account Executives to showcase the value of Abnormal’s Behavioral AI platform. As a Mid-Market Sales Engineer, you’ll serve as the trusted technical advisor throughout the sales cycle, crafting compelling business cases, delivering impactful product demonstrations, and helping customers overcome their email security challenges. In close partnership with Account Executives, you’ll lead both in-person and virtual demos, clearly articulate the technical and business value of Abnormal AI solutions, and guide customers to successful Proof of Value (POV) outcomes. The ideal candidate for the role will have the following skill set: - Ability to tie technology to business outcomes and drive value - Ability to influence your audience in both virtual and in person formats - High emotional intelligence; ability to read the room, engage people, be empathetic, listen and respond effectively - Ability to create value driven presentations and tell the story behind them (Powerpoint, Google Slides) - Strong discovery skills; able to uncover customer pain points, requirements, and objectives ## What you will do - Serve as the technical sales lead throughout the pre-sales cycle, including owning Proof of Value (POV) results and driving their success, co-leading customer relationships with Mid-Market Account Executives, and delivering technical demos - Provide technical pre-sales support for Mid-Market Account Executives - Assist Mid-Market Account Executives in developing and implementing sales objectives and account-based penetration strategies - Conduct technical and competitive landscape research to effectively address customer questions - Serve as a technical resource for pre-sales and platform diligence, including supporting prospect security reviews, and answering technical questionnaires as required - Educate prospects and partners on Abnormal AI products, platform, and offerings - Obsessively drive customer satisfaction Must Haves - 2+ years experience in sales engineering or related technical field - Excellent technical presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written - Ability to see and present “the big picture”, uncover business challenges, and architect solutions that address customer needs - Ability to work independently in a high-velocity, dynamic environment - Positive attitude, strong customer focus, and sense of ownership over customer outcomes - Technical background in messaging and Internet security principles (a plus) - Understanding of internet protocols (HTTP, SMTP, DNS, etc.) (a plus) - Security+, SSCP, CISSP, CEH or other relevant security certifications (a plus) ## #LI-AA1 A note on AI in our process: Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards. Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please [click here](https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt3a076cfd9753fa1f/blt9cbda641db7c0045/6a1e3d3a66aea075cd33e462/AAP_and_EEO_Statement.pdf). If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please [click here](https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt3a076cfd9753fa1f/blt4eb3a265cc7b1ca9/6a1e3d3bfe33e73c16ff026b/EEOC_Know_Your_Rights_Oct_30_2025.pdf). ## About Abnormal ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Abnormal Security uses behavioral AI to autonomously detect and stop sophisticated email attacks, account takeovers, and insider threats for enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Evan Reiser (CEO) and Sanjay Jeyakumar (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Cloud Email Security, Identity Security, AI Security) - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (over 25% of the Fortune 500) - **Mission statement**: "Stop crime with AI and bring cybersecurity from the future to defenders today." ## Products & Services - **Abnormal Behavioral Security Platform**: An AI-native, cloud-based platform that builds behavioral baselines for every user and entity in an organization to detect anomalies that indicate attacks. - **Email Security**: Autonomous detection and remediation of BEC, phishing, and account takeover attacks via API-based, cloud-native architecture. Deploys in 60 seconds with no MX changes. - **Identity Security**: Harden identities, detect compromise, and prevent insider threats by analyzing behavioral signals in real-time. - **Insider Threat**: Blocks fraudulent actors and malicious insiders by autonomously addressing anomalies. - **AI Security (Attune AI)**: Provides visibility and policy enforcement for all AI tools used within an organization, enabling AI governance. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported Series D valuation was $2.6B in 2022) - **Key Metric**: Over 25% of the Fortune 500 are customers. The company has stopped millions of attacks and saved billions in financial losses. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund (strategic investor) - **Growth Signals**: The company is AI-native from day one, with revenue growing rapidly. It is expanding its platform from email security into identity, insider threat, and AI governance. Headcount has grown significantly, and the company continues to hire across engineering, GTM, and operations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Behavioral AI Moat**: Unlike signature-based or rules-based security tools, Abnormal builds a unique behavioral baseline for every organization and user. This allows it to detect novel attacks that no other vendor sees. - **AI-Native Operations**: The company doesn't just build AI products—it runs its entire business (product, CS, finance, HR) with AI agents, compounding its speed of innovation. - **Deep Enterprise Trust**: Over 25% of the Fortune 500 give Abnormal the authority to autonomously make security decisions, a level of trust very few vendors achieve. - **Founding Team Origins**: Founders came from adtech (building anomaly-detection AI at scale) rather than traditional cybersecurity, giving them an outsider's perspective that led to the behavioral AI approach. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond email security into identity, insider threat, and AI security, building a unified behavioral security platform. - **AI-First Product Development**: Using AI agents to compress product development cycles from quarters to weeks, rapidly launching new products. - **Operational Efficiency**: Embedding AI across every internal function to drive automation and efficiency, allowing the company to scale without linear headcount growth. - **Market Leadership**: Capitalizing on the wave of AI-generated attacks to position behavioral AI as the only viable defense. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-First Culture**: From day one, Abnormal has been remote-first. Employees have the choice to work from home, from hub offices, or from co-working spaces (WeWork). Async work is the default, with deliberate synchronous overlap time. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **High Autonomy, High Accountability**: No micromanagement. Clear expectations. Growth is based on impact, not tenure or title. "You don't wait your turn." [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **AI-Native Work Environment**: Every employee, regardless of role, gets access to the best AI tools and is expected to use them. The company rebuilds work processes around what AI makes possible—not by bolting AI onto old workflows. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **Compressed Growth Timeline**: Because everything moves fast with AI, impact that would take quarters elsewhere happens in weeks. One person can do what used to take a team. Outsized impact is rewarded proportionally. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **Transparent and Direct Culture**: "We say what's true, even when it's uncomfortable." Leaders are accessible, teams share learnings openly, and new hires get real ownership immediately. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/about) - **Notable Perks**: Compensation is tied to impact, not role. The company offers flexibility as infrastructure, not a benefit. Employees see direct results from their work in a fast-growing, mission-driven company. ## Sources 1. [Abnormal AI - Official Website](https://abnormal.ai/) 2. [Abnormal AI - About Page](https://abnormal.ai/about) 3. [Abnormal AI - Careers & Culture](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) 4. [Abnormal AI - Open Roles](https://abnormal.ai/careers/open-roles) 5. [Abnormal AI - What We Are](https://abnormal.ai/about/what-we-are) 6. [Crunchbase - Abnormal Security](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/abnormalsecurity) 7. 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