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Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
Verkada prides itself on maintaining a high hiring bar while bringing in diverse and unconventional backgrounds of driven individuals obsessed with their craft. As a Business Value Manager, you will have a direct impact on Verkada’s Enterprise sales motion, bridging the gap between complex technologies and tangible financial and operational outcomes.
Reporting to the Chief of Staff to the CRO, you will partner with Enterprise Sales Leaders to architect a value selling framework to scale to the Enterprise Sales organization, building the infrastructure to reference key customer outcomes and win stories, as well as partnering with Product Marketing and Enablement to develop assets and enablement programs. In addition to pioneering the Business Value Selling program at Verkada, you will serve as the Strategic Deal Architect behind our most complex, multi-million-dollar deals, transforming technical capabilities into compelling financial and operational narratives. In this high-visibility role, you will move beyond feature-selling, working at the intersection of finance, product, and sales to quantify the operational and financial impact of our platform, directly influencing the investment decisions of C-suite executives at the world’s leading enterprises.
Please note: this role is remote - with 50% of travel required.
What You'll Do
- Program Development: Partner with Product Marketing to create and refine standardized value frameworks, templates, and "talk tracks" to scale business value services across the global enterprise sales organization.
- Value Realization Tracking and Database: Monitor and analyze data from current customers post-implementation to validate that the promised value was delivered, partnering with Product Marketing to maintain a database of relevant data, and creating "real-world" success stories for future sales.
- Sales Enablement: Coach sales teams on value-selling methodologies, including referencing of relevant customer data, and provide the tooling/content for self-service business justifications.
- Value Discovery: Partner with account executives to lead discovery sessions with CxOs to identify pain points and desired outcomes.
- Financial Modeling: Develop ROI (Return on Investment) and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) value models to quantify the business impact of solutions.
- Business Case Development: Draft data-backed business cases for strategic opportunities, ensuring every claim is anchored in measurable customer impact.
- Executive Storytelling: Craft and deliver executive-level business cases that align technical solutions with broad corporate objectives.
- Commercial Objection Handling: partnering with Sales to dismantle financial objections in real-time.
What You Bring
- Strategic Consulting: 5–9+ years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, or enterprise software sales.
- Financial Intelligence: Proficiency in building complex financial models and the ability to navigate financial documents like 10-Ks and earnings transcripts.
- Analytical Power: Proficiency in data visualization and manipulation tools such as Looker and advanced Google Sheets.
- Executive Presence: Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence C-suite decision-makers.
- Technical & Market Acumen: Deep understanding of SaaS sales motions, industry trends (e.g., AI/ML acceleration), and how IT functions like operations and security drive value.
Analytical Rigor: Ability to derive meaningful insights from large, complex data sets to build compelling business cases.
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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Enterprise Account Executive (Houston - SLED)
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Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
We are seeking a hardworking, driven individual with superb energy, passion and experience driving new business acquisition in the Local/Education market. This person will join a growing Public Sector Field Sales team and will cover the Houston territory. The Enterprise Account Executive will play an integral role in developing the territory and will focus on formulating and executing a sales strategy within an assigned territory, resulting in new customer acquisition and revenue growth.
With Verkada’s consistent year over year growth, now is the perfect time to join the sales team. This is an outstanding career option for an enthusiastic sales professional looking to further their career in a fast paced dynamic environment while also being part of a rapidly growing start-up.
This position reports to the Regional Sales Director, Southern - SLED.
What You'll Do
- Develop and Implement a comprehensive territory plan
- Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics and quota, with a strong emphasis on net new business sales. This includes prospecting and outreach to new local/education business opportunities providing product demos, product trials, and strategic negotiations with customers and channel partners
- Meet or exceed individual targets and contribute to the overall team and company success. Proven ability to proactively penetrate new, untapped markets with greenfield accounts and achieve a quarterly quota of at least 1 qualified net new logo
- Initiate and manage expansion discussions to drive customer retention. This includes identifying customers’ goals and requirements, including budgetary constraints and key decision makers
- Devise a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy and partner with Verkada’s channel partner sales organization to establish channel partner initiatives that result in a minimum of 5 deal registrations each quarter
- Drive business growth and enhance market presence through a combination of customer engagements, marketing campaigns, executive briefings, industry conferences, events and market sector knowledge/intelligence
- Gain an in-depth and detailed understanding of Verkada’s business and products to confidently sell to states, cities, counties, education agencies and special districts within your territory
- Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements
- Provide account analysis, quarterly business reviews, and accurate revenue forecasts
- This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration.
What You Bring
- 5-10+ years of quota-carrying software/hardware technology or channel sales with focus on building a greenfield territory and landing new business; 2+ years selling technical solutions or products to the Public Sector (Local Government, Education) is a plus
- Proven track record of success in a sales-driven organization selling a highly complex technical solution (with the awards and references to prove it)
- Must live in territory & willingness to travel; Willingness to have a strong field presence multiple days per week;
- Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing major accounts against incumbents
- Customer-focused with extensive experience developing customer relationships within Local/Education accounts. This includes relationships with Government Agencies, Higher Education Institutions, Solutions Partners, and Resellers
- Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles This includes navigating the complexity of multiple buying stakeholders and the nuances of government and education buying
- Experience collaborating with an internal channel partner team to sell through and with channel partners is a plus
- Relevant software or hardware industry experience in any of the following domains; security software or hardware, computer networking and “how the internet works”, subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software is a plus
- Strong knowledge and execution of MEDDIC is highly preferred
- Self-motivated, tenacious, confident, with a willingness to engage in prospecting to maintain individual funnels as expected
- Intellectually curious High IQ, EQ and self-awareness
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with peers, customers, and partners
- Thrive working in a fast paced dynamic environment with a strong sense of urgency
- BS/BA degree strongly preferred
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information
- You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Greater Houston Area
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Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
Verkada is seeking an Enterprise Field Solutions Engineer based in the Greater Houston Region with expert experience in Cloud Security, IoT Systems, Networking, Linux systems, Security Surveillance and Access Control. This individual will partner directly with their territory account executives to expand the Verkada footprint upmarket into Fortune 500 companies. Responsibilities include directly interfacing with customers/partners throughout the sales process, overcoming technical objections, assisting customers in designing deployments with Verkada Products and providing technical assistance to territory account reps. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, able to learn quickly and work independently while making impactful results for the company remotely.
What You'll Do
- Technical Leader: Be the subject matter authority on the full Verkada suite of products and offerings and articulate the value added benefits to customers throughout the sales process.
- Objection Handler: Overcome objections and defuse landmines while securing the technical win for Verkada.
- Evangelist: Effectively present the Verkada solution to all levels of customer, from C-level executives to loss prevention managers and directors of IT. Be a Product Technical Evangelist in training/educating partners, customers, and internal employees on the latest Verkada product offerings.
- This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, with a proven track record of working with Fortune 500 companies.
- Outstanding written and verbal English communication skills in order to clearly and efficiently articulate technical matters with customers and partners.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant technical or security field from an accredited university.
- Strong background in Networking: HTTPS, VLANs, TCP/IP, DNS, NAT devices, DHCP and Firewalls.
- Bonus:
- Industry certifications: AWS, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, MCSE, CEH, Security+, A+, Network+, Microsoft Azure, CISSP, CSP.
- Experience working with Active Directory, SAML/SCIM, API's, Python, and other coding languages is a plus.
- Startup experience.
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information
- You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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Enterprise Account Executive (Rio Grande Valley - SLED)
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Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
We are seeking a hardworking, driven individual with superb energy, passion and experience driving new business acquisition in the SLED market. This person will join a growing Public Sector Field Sales team and will cover the Rio Grande Valley territory. The Enterprise Account Executive will play an integral role in developing the territory and will focus on formulating and executing a sales strategy within an assigned territory, resulting in new customer acquisition and revenue growth.
With Verkada’s consistent year over year growth, now is the perfect time to join the sales team. This is an outstanding career option for an enthusiastic sales professional looking to further their career in a fast paced dynamic environment while also being part of a rapidly growing start-up.
This position reports to the Regional Sales Director, Southern - SLED.
What You'll Do
- Develop and Implement a comprehensive territory plan
- Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics and quota, with a strong emphasis on net new business sales. This includes prospecting and outreach to new local/education business opportunities providing product demos, product trials, and strategic negotiations with customers and channel partners
- Meet or exceed individual targets and contribute to the overall team and company success. Proven ability to proactively penetrate new, untapped markets with greenfield accounts and achieve a quarterly quota of at least 1 qualified net new logo
- Initiate and manage expansion discussions to drive customer retention. This includes identifying customers’ goals and requirements, including budgetary constraints and key decision makers
- Devise a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy and partner with Verkada’s channel partner sales organization to establish channel partner initiatives that result in a minimum of 5 deal registrations each quarter
- Drive business growth and enhance market presence through a combination of customer engagements, marketing campaigns, executive briefings, industry conferences, events and market sector knowledge/intelligence
- Gain an in-depth and detailed understanding of Verkada’s business and products to confidently sell to states, cities, counties, education agencies and special districts within your territory
- Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements
- Provide account analysis, quarterly business reviews, and accurate revenue forecasts
- This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration.
What You Bring
- 5-10+ years of quota-carrying software/hardware technology or channel sales with focus on building a greenfield territory and landing new business; 2+ years selling technical solutions or products to the Public Sector (Local Government, Education) is a plus
- Proven track record of success in a sales-driven organization selling a highly complex technical solution (with the awards and references to prove it)
- Must live in territory & willingness to travel; Willingness to have a strong field presence multiple days per week;
- Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing major accounts against incumbents
- Customer-focused with extensive experience developing customer relationships within Local/Education accounts. This includes relationships with Government Agencies, Higher Education Institutions, Solutions Partners, and Resellers
- Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles This includes navigating the complexity of multiple buying stakeholders and the nuances of government and education buying
- Experience collaborating with an internal channel partner team to sell through and with channel partners is a plus
- Relevant software or hardware industry experience in any of the following domains; security software or hardware, computer networking and “how the internet works”, subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software is a plus
- Strong knowledge and execution of MEDDIC is highly preferred
- Self-motivated, tenacious, confident, with a willingness to engage in prospecting to maintain individual funnels as expected
- Intellectually curious High IQ, EQ and self-awareness
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with peers, customers, and partners
- Thrive working in a fast paced dynamic environment with a strong sense of urgency
- BS/BA degree strongly preferred
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information
- You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Verkada
Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
Verkada is investing in channel as a core growth motion, and this role is ground zero for that bet. As Director, Partner Solutions Engineering, you will build Verkada's Channel Solutions Engineering (CSE) function from scratch. This is a rare opportunity to define the strategy, hire the team, establish the playbook, and own the outcomes for how Verkada's partner ecosystem wins technically.
You will report directly to the Worldwide VP of Solutions Engineering and serve as the senior-most technical voice for Verkada's channel organization. You'll work closely with internal stakeholders across Marketing, Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Strategy, and Operations. But make no mistake, this is a builder role. If you've stood up a channel SE motion before and are looking for the latitude to do it right, this is your seat.
What You'll Do
- Build the Function: Design and stand up the Channel Solutions Engineering organization from scratch, including headcount model, team structure, coverage strategy, and operating cadence. Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Channel SEs and managers built for scale.
- Establish the CSE Playbook: Define how Verkada engages partners technically, from partner tiering and engagement models to demo standards, technical validation frameworks, and enablement curricula.
- Drive Partner Technical Excellence: Support technical enablement program covering certifications, training, labs, and sandbox environments that turns partners into genuine Verkada experts. Own the partner technical lifecycle from recruitment through activation and ongoing development.
- Shape Go-to-Market Strategy: Build a channel SE motion that complements and extends the direct SE motion. Develop differentiated technical support models across partner types. Champion Verkada's technical positioning in partner-led sales cycles.
- Align Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Channel Sales, Direct SE, Product, and Marketing to align enablement initiatives to product roadmap and business priorities. Define and track KPIs for the CSE function, including partner-influenced pipeline, technical win rates, enablement completion, and certification attainment.
- Serve as the Executive Technical Sponsor: Act as the escalation point and senior technical presence for Verkada's most strategic partner relationships. Represent the partner voice internally, surfacing gaps and driving product feedback loops.
What You Bring
- Industry Experience: 10+ years in pre-sales or solutions engineering, with meaningful time owning complex technical solution design at scale.
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years leading technical pre-sales organizations at the Director level, including management of managers.
- Channel Expertise: Demonstrated experience building or substantially scaling a channel or partner SE motion, ideally from an early or undefined stage. Deep familiarity with reseller ecosystems.
- Technical Depth: Strong fluency across Cloud, Networking, Physical Security, Storage, and Software. Able to credibly engage with both C-suite stakeholders and hands-on architects. Industry certifications a plus.
- Program Rigor: Track record of defining and executing partner enablement programs at scale. Data-driven approach to measuring team performance and reporting to executive leadership.
- Travel: This role requires significant travel, estimated at 50%+, domestic and international, to support partner engagements, team collaboration, and executive meetings.
- Bonus: Physical security industry experience.
- Startup or high-growth company experience.
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information
- You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Verkada
Staff Embedded Software Engineer - Camera Firmware
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Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will spearhead the development of brand-new camera categories while driving the continued growth and reliability of our ever-expanding global fleet. This role is a high-impact technical leadership position requiring seamless collaboration across the entire stack—including Hardware, Product, Backend, and Frontend teams—to bring first-generation systems to life. Reporting directly to the Camera Firmware Manager, you will work full-time at our HQ in San Mateo to oversee the technical lifecycle of our newest hardware and ensure the operational excellence of a multi-million device, perpetually online IoT footprint.
What You'll Do
- Unlocking New Markets: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of entirely new camera categories for untapped market segments. Collaborate directly with Hardware and Product teams during the initial co-design phase, to influence HW selection and feature scoping.
- Architectural Leadership: Own the firmware roadmap and drive the large-scale architectural changes required to support novel features across the entire stack—from low-level MCUs to Linux-based edge services.
- System-Wide Technical Depth: Engineer high-performance features across a diverse software landscape, spanning bare-metal MCU firmware, secure bootloaders, Linux kernel optimizations, and concurrent userspace services.
- Complex Problem Solving: Tackle the most "gnarly" system-level challenges, from non-deterministic race conditions and memory corruption to elusive hardware-software timing issues that only emerge at the scale of a million-device fleet.
- Navigate Multi-Dimensional Trade-offs: Systematically balance conflicting priorities—including hardware security hardening, peak performance, power efficiency, and deep fleet observability
- Cross-Functional Optimization: Partner with CV, Streaming, and Storage teams to architect vertically integrated features that push the boundaries of edge computing and real-time computer vision.
- Operational Excellence at Scale: Champion a reliability-first culture for a global fleet of 1.5 million perpetually online devices, designing the deployment and monitoring strategies that ensure 24/7 uptime.
What You Bring
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of professional experience in systems software development for performance and resource-constrained environments.
- 5+ years of experience building software for Linux-based platforms.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives from concept to production. You have a history of aligning diverse engineering verticals to deliver complex systems on aggressive timelines.
- Proven experience leading initial board bring-up and hardware-software co-design for first-generation embedded devices.
- Hands-on experience with low-level protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, USB) and the ability to debug complex hardware-software interactions.
- Experience designing, implementing and debugging concurrent/multithreaded firmware services
- Strong understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and trade-offs between compute, memory, and storage.
- Proficient in at least one systems programming language: C++ or Golang.
- Familiarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.
- Bonus Qualification: Direct experience with Linux Kernel development, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance.
- Bonus Qualification: Technical depth in MCU firmware and the boot stack, with a focus on RTOS, bare-metal development, or secure boot implementation.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams.
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information
- We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Central Corp
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Who We Are
Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.
About the Role
Verkada is seeking an Enterprise Field Solution Engineer in the Central US Region with expert experience in Cloud Security, IoT Systems, Networking, Linux systems, Security Surveillance and Access Control. This individual will partner directly with their territory account executives to expand the Verkada footprint upmarket into Fortune 500 companies. Responsibilities include directly interfacing with customers/partners throughout the sales process, overcoming technical objections, assisting customers in designing deployments with Verkada Products and providing technical assistance to territory account reps. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, able to learn quickly and work independently while making impactful results for the company remotely.
What You'll Do
- Technical Leader: Be the subject matter authority on the full Verkada suite of products and offerings and articulate the value added benefits to customers throughout the sales process.
- Objection Handler: Overcome objections and defuse landmines while securing the technical win for Verkada.
- Evangelist: Effectively present the Verkada solution to all levels of customer, from C-level executives to loss prevention managers and directors of IT. Be a Product Technical Evangelist in training/educating partners, customers, and internal employees on the latest Verkada product offerings.
- This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, with a proven track record of working with Fortune 500 companies.
- Outstanding written and verbal English communication skills in order to clearly and efficiently articulate technical matters with customers and partners.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant technical or security field from an accredited university.
- Strong background in Networking: HTTPS, VLANs, TCP/IP, DNS, NAT devices, DHCP and Firewalls.
- Bonus:
- Industry certifications: AWS, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, MCSE, CEH, Security+, A+, Network+, Microsoft Azure, CISSP, CSP.
- Experience working with Active Directory, SAML/SCIM, API's, Python, and other coding languages is a plus.
- Startup experience.
US Employee Benefits
Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Additional Information
- You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.
Annual Pay Range
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Verkada