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Presales Director

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Socket.dev
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-03
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Sales Engineer, Technical Sales
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 190000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 190000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Join D-Fend Solutions — where technology meets purpose.

As the global leader in cyber-takeover counter-drone technology, we develop advanced solutions that keep airspaces safe from evolving drone threats. Our team — including veterans of elite military tech units — pushes boundaries every day to deliver smarter, faster, and safer protection for customers worldwide.

If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technology, real-world impact, and working in a collaborative, high-energy environment — we’d love to have you on board.

Become a D-Fender. Shape the future of airspace security.

The Pre-Sales Director is a key leadership role bridging the Sales organization with Product and R&D teams. The role is responsible for ensuring that proposed customer solutions are both technically relevant and commercially compelling, thereby supporting the sales process and driving successful business outcomes.

The Pre-Sales Director will lead, in a matrix structure, all pre-sales teams across the company’s global sites and will drive knowledge management, methodologies, work culture, and collaboration models with the sales organization worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Pre-Sales Team Leadership
  • Leadership &

    Coaching:

    Recruit, mentor, coach, and manage the daily activities of the pre-sales team, including Sales Engineers and Solution Architects.
  • Resource Allocation: Assign appropriate pre-sales resources to sales opportunities based on expertise, priorities, and urgency.
  • Professional Development: Drive the professional, technical, and presentation skills development of team members.
2. Driving Pre-Sales Support
  • Understanding Customer Needs: Lead in-depth discussions with prospective customers to fully understand their technical requirements and business challenges.
  • Solution Presentation: Develop and deliver demonstrations, including customer-tailored scenarios, technical presentations, operational solution proposals based on company capabilities, and customized Proof of Concept (POC) processes aligned with customer requirements, company capabilities, and operational constraints.
  • RFP/RFI Support: Lead the technical response process for RFPs and RFIs, including writing, reviewing, and tailoring responses.
3. Strategy & Processes
  • Development of Sales Materials: Create, maintain, and manage standardized pre-sales assets, including product documentation, FAQs, demo scenarios, POC templates, and related materials.
  • Feedback & Knowledge Sharing: Establish a structured process for collecting field feedback from customers and sales opportunities, analyzing lessons learned, sharing insights across relevant teams, and ensuring implementation of improvements with Product, R&D, Sales, and Marketing teams.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Sales leadership to develop overall sales strategies as well as opportunity-specific strategies when required.
  • Project Handover & Knowledge Transfer: Share technical sales process insights, challenges, and solutions with the Project Management organization following deal closure to ensure effective project execution and continuity.
4. Technical & Business Leadership
  • Technical Expertise: Maintain deep and up-to-date knowledge of the company’s solutions, competitors, and relevant technology trends.
  • Technical Validation: Approve the technical feasibility of proposed solutions prior to final proposal submission.
  • Leadership & Continuous Improvement: Foster professionalism, leadership, continuous improvement, structured methodologies, and operational excellence while serving as a role model for the organization.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
  • Proven experience of at least 5 years in a Pre-Sales, Sales Engineering, or Solution Architect role.
  • Previous leadership and management experience – mandatory.
  • Excellent presentation and public speaking skills.
  • Fluent English, both written and spoken; additional languages are an advantage.
  • Strong technical understanding of the company’s products/solutions and their technological ecosystem.
  • Ability to accurately analyze operational and business requirements while considering customer constraints.
  • Creativity and strategic thinking with the ability to analyze competing technologies and propose compelling customer-focused solutions.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technical requirements into business value.
  • Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ability to build strong working relationships with customers, sales teams, and technical organizations.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Strong technical writing capabilities.
  • Strong time-management skills, multitasking ability, and capability to work effectively under pressure.
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