Strategic Account Executive NeoCloud and AI

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point is seeking a high-impact Strategic Account Executive to drive growth across the NeoCloud and AI infrastructure ecosystem from Paris. You will acquire new strategic logos, scale multi-motion opportunities, and engage founders, CTOs, CISOs, and cloud architects early in the design cycle to position Check Point within foundational GPU, sovereign AI, and next-generation cloud architectures.

You will build trusted executive relationships, navigate complex buying committees, and lead

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of B2B sales experience in enterprise cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or data center technologies.
• Experience land­ing complex $10M+ opportunities and opening strategic doors.
• Strong ability to build trust with C-level stakeholders and translate tech into business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic growth by acquiring new logos and scaling opportunities across top NeoCloud accounts.
• Engage founders, CTOs, CISOs, and cloud architects early in design cycles to embed Check Point into AI architectures.
• Lead multi-stakeholder negotiations across consumption, embedded, and managed service models.
• Build executive relationships and navigate complex buying committees across target providers.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver high‑impact outcomes and accurate multi-year forecasting.

Skills

B2B sales

enterprise cybersecurity

cloud infrastructure

data center tech

territory expansion

C-level relationships

alliance leadership

co-selling

account planning

pipeline forecasting

Job description

Strategic Account Executive NeoCloud and AI

• Full-time
• Office Location: Paris, France
• Career site Category: Sales

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.
Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.
This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.
We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.
What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.
If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Check Point is looking for a high-impact Strategic Account Executive to drive strategic growth across the emerging NeoCloud and AI infrastructure ecosystem. In this role, you will acquire new strategic logos, scale multi-motion opportunities across top accounts, and engage founders, CTOs, CISOs, and cloud architects early in the design cycle to position Check Point within foundational GPU, sovereign AI, and next-generation cloud architectures. You will build trusted executive relationships, navigate complex buying committees, develop disciplined multi-year account strategies, and lead sophisticated commercial negotiations across consumption, embedded, and managed service models. Working closely with alliance partners and a virtual account team to establish Check Point as a security standard for AI-driven platforms and create a multi-million-dollar ARR growth engine across Europe.

• Drive Strategic Growth by acquire new strategic logos and scale multi-motion opportunities across top NeoCloud accounts.
• Engage founders, CTOs, CISOs, and cloud architects early in the design cycle to embed Check Point into foundational GPU and sovereign AI architectures.
• Build Executive Relationships and secure senior-level access, build trusted multi-threaded relationships, and navigate complex buying committees across target providers.
• Develop and execute disciplined account strategies aligned to each customer's maturity, deployment roadmap, and commercial model.
• Lead complex, multi-stakeholder contract and pricing negotiations, including consumption, embedded, and managed service models.
• Drive Alliance & Co-Sell Motions in building alliance-led account with GPU, server, data center, and platform partners to position Check Point in joint reference architectures.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (cloud/AI specialists, security engineers, alliances, legal, and executive sponsors) to deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Use Check Point tools to manage account strategies, pipeline development, and accurate multi-year forecasting.
• 8–12+ years of B2B sales experience with a proven track record in enterprise cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or data center technologies.
• Proven market builder mindset and the ability to establish new territories from the ground up, land complex $10M+ opportunities, and open strategic doors.
• Deep technical fluency and solid understanding of AI/GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, CNAPP, and sovereign data requirements.
• Ecosystem and alliance leadership with Experience co-selling alongside hardware vendors, data center operators, and global channel partners.
• Strong ability to build trust with C-level stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and translate technical capabilities into core business outcomes.
• Sharp operator with disciplined approach to account planning, multi-stakeholder navigation, and accurate pipeline management.