
Federal Security Sales Specialist, Public Sector
Washington D.C., DCJob$138–200K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Federal Security Sales Specialist supports federal civilian agencies in strengthening cyber defenses through Google SecOps and Mandiant consulting. The role develops security sales across public-sector accounts, builds customer relationships, and coordinates with technical, marketing, customer success, channel, product, and engineering teams. The position is based in Reston, Virginia, or Washington, D.C., and requires U.S. citizenship and travel of up to 25%.
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Federal Security Sales Specialist, Public Sector
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XMust be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
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Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
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Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
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Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
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Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
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Holidays: 13 paid days per year.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Reston, VA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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10 years of sales experience with federal civilian customers.
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5 years of experience in cyber-security, cloud security, security architecture, incident response, security operations, or security governance.
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Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience supporting long-term executive relationships, and developing territories/accounts from scratch, while ensuring customer success, adoption and expansion.
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Experience carrying and exceeding strategic business goals in a sales role.
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Experience prioritizing, planning, and organizing solution-based sales activity within complex sales cycles, including qualifying high value accounts and leveraging our partner ecosystem.
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Experience working with internal/external teams, including account teams, technical leads, procurement, and legal, to inventory existing software estate, build business cases for transformation with implementation plans, and close agreements.
About the job
The Federal Civilian Security Specialist team helps federal agencies strengthen their cyber defenses with Google SecOps and Mandiant consulting. We combine deep security expertise, threat intelligence, and federal fluency to protect mission-critical systems and drive security growth across Google Public Sector's civilian accounts.
Google Public Sector (https://about.google/intl/ALL\_us/public-sector/#:~:text=We) brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) + 100% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Construct and execute an effective territory development plan, promote security products to new and existing security customers, meeting or exceeding quarterly goals.
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Develop and drive pipeline, managing cycles, from lead generation to customer on-boarding.
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Build and maintain relationships to influence long-term direction, act as a trusted advisor to the account.
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Partner with Marketing, Customer Engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Customer Success, Channels and Product, and Engineering teams to represent the customer and provide excellent prospect and customer experience.
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Represent Google Public Sector in regional forecasts and team meetings, serve as stakeholder to regional cloud leads, reporting current, accurate and timely forecasting, and business performance in salesforce and other tools.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
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How this job compares
Set against the 53,069 open Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$138–200K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$125–188K/yr323 salary ranges
- US median$95–145K/yr25,705 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $169K, is 8% above the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($156K) — in the middle half of Sales salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 424 open Sales jobs in Washington, D.C. and 53,069 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Sales postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 29,246 postings).
- Education
- 11,105 of the 53,069 open Sales jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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