Manager, Solutions Engineering - EMEA

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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

You'll lead Vanta's EMEA Solutions Engineering team across the Growth and Commercial segments, developing a strong group of eight SEs while evolving our technical sales motion and helping drive growth in one of Vanta's highest-priority regions.

Solutions Engineering at Vanta sits at the intersection of product, technical, and sales. The SE team works alongside Account Executives to drive technical wins, lead discovery, and make the fit between customer needs and Vanta's capabilities real, converting qualified opportunities into closed revenue. In EMEA, that means operating across a wide and diverse market: from established financial and technology hubs across Western Europe to emerging opportunities across the Middle East, Israel, and Southern Europe, each with different regulatory contexts, GRC maturity levels, and buying behaviours. The team needs to show up credibly across all of them.

This manager leads the Growth and Commercial SE team, a group of eight SEs spanning a fast-moving, high-priority region. The SE motion is actively evolving from a repeatable demo approach toward a more consultative, value-based model in the right deals, while preserving speed and volume where that remains the right answer. The job is to develop the team and the motion together.

What you’ll do as a Manager, Solutions Engineering at Vanta: 
- Lead and develop the SE team: manage eight SEs across the Growth and Commercial segments, build on the existing operating rhythm, and establish a coaching cadence that elevates individual performance and team craft

- Drive the evolution of the SE motion: work with your team and EMEA sales leadership to shift from a repeatable demo approach to a more consultative, value-based engagement model in the right deals, while maintaining speed and volume where that remains the right answer

- Define what good technical engagement looks like: build and iterate on playbooks for discovery, demo quality, and POC approach that the team can replicate and refine as the motion matures

- Strengthen the SE-AE partnership across EMEA: work closely with AE leadership to ensure SE contribution is well-integrated…

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