NA Regional Presales Cybersecurity Leader - Senior Director

Cognizant

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bridgewater, NJNew York, NY
Salary
$245,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted
14 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $255k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$208,775 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 32 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · NA Regional Presales Cybersecurity Leader - Senior Director

Cognizant seeks a Senior Director to lead cybersecurity go-to-market strategy and revenue enablement across North America, focusing on growing qualified pipeline and improving deal conversion for large, complex pursuits. This role involves partnering with sales, delivery, alliances, and practice leadership to bring high-impact solutions to market while building and mentoring a regional presales team. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in cybersecurity, including solution architecture and commercial shaping, and is proficient in major security platforms like Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto NGFW, CrowdStrike Falcon, Splunk SIEM, Okta, Qualys, and ServiceNow SecOps. They should also have strong leadership skills, a track record of winning large engagements, and the ability to engage with C-level executives. This role offers significant opportunities within Cognizant’s broad alliance ecosystem and global delivery platform, addressing modern cybersecurity priorities such as cloud security and AI-driven threats.

What you'll do

  • Own cybersecurity presales strategy for North America, driving pipeline growth and deal conversion.
  • Lead high-value cybersecurity pursuits across managed security services, cyber transformation, and system integration.
  • Represent cybersecurity capability in key client forums, engaging C-level executives to shape strategic decisions.
  • Build and mentor a regional presales and solutioning team, ensuring alignment with delivery leadership post-contract.
  • Drive alignment across markets, alliances, and offering teams, contributing to GTM strategy refinement at the practice level.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years experience in cybersecurity across presales, solutioning, architecture, and cyber risk management.
  • Minimum 5 years in senior presales leadership with direct pursuit ownership, team management, and pipeline accountability.
  • Proven track record of winning large, complex cybersecurity engagements (TCV $10M+) as lead.
  • Broad expertise across core cybersecurity domains including identity, data security, cloud, network, application security, and GRC.
  • Hands-on familiarity with major security platforms like Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto NGFW, CrowdStrike, Splunk SIEM, Okta, Qualys, ServiceNow SecOps.
  • Strong commercial acumen and executive presence to shape value propositions for strategic pursuits.

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