The Account Executive is responsible for driving new business with large enterprises, managing sales presentations, and providing technical support throughout the sales cycle.
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The Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for actively driving and managing new direct and channel business with large enterprise prospects, 5,000 employees and up. We are looking for a candidate who combines a sales background with the technical skills of an engineer. Strong sales skills are a must, and the ability to lead the prospects through the sales cycle without additional technical assistance. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background.
Responsibilities:
- Hunt, develop, and close new business opportunities
- Delivery of high-level and detailed sales presentations
- Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
- Provide functional and technical support to prospects and customers
- Responsible for attending conferences, seminars virtually, in-region and nationally
- Ability to manage a realistic sales funnel, follow up on inbound leads quickly, and cold call into large Fortune 500 / S&P 500 size organizations
Qualifications:
- Ideal candidate must be self-motivated with strong knowledge in security and compliance space: Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance, Web Application Scanning, Threat Hunting / EDR, File Integrity Monitoring, and other enterprise security solutions. Strong track record of hunting, consulting, and closing new business
- Experience with Qualys is a plus, but not required
- Familiarity with compliance benchmarks such as CIS level 1 & 2, PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST, NERC, CIP, NIST, etc.
- Must possess strong presentation skills and be able to communicate professionally in response to emails, RFPs and when submitting reports
- 5-7 years relevant experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Able to travel throughout sales territory
- Able to comfortably present to prospects and clients using video conferencing solutions in a work-from-home environment
Candidates must live or be willing to relocate to the Dallas/Ft Worth area
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