Enterprise Account Executive

Menlo Ventures; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Abnormal Security is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to join the Netherlands team. This role sells our security solutions to Enterprise level accounts within a defined territory, requiring you to prospect into large organizations, qualify pains, present compelling ROI, and guide internal stakeholders through their buying process to close deals.

You will work with cross‑functional teams including Sales Engineering, Marketing, BDRs, Product and Customer Success to ensure a timely

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct enterprise sales experience
• Proven over-quota performance
• Experience selling to CISOs and security teams
• Ability to close complex enterprise deals
• Startup/early-stage experience preferred
• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Sell Abnormal Security solutions to defined territory to overachieve annual recurring revenue quota
• Manage enterprise accounts from initial conversations to contract signing and post-sale expansion
• Generate new business opportunities to supply pipeline to hit targets
• Collaborate with Customer Success to ensure renewals and expansion
• Document results and maintain data in Salesforce/CRM
• Advocate for the customer with internal teams to prioritize revenue growth

Skills

Enterprise hunting

Qualify pains

Present ROI

Sales process discipline

Data integrity

ROI business case

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Resilience

Education

BS/BA degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

About the Role

Abnormal Security is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to join the Netherlands team. This team sells our security solutions to Enterprise level accounts within a defined territory.

The ideal candidate for the role will be local to the Netherlands area and have the following skillset:

• Ability to hunt: disciplined approach to early pipeline development. Comfortable and have demonstrated ability to prospect into enterprise accounts with the ability to leverage/ balance five pillars of demand generation: AE prospecting, SDR, Marketing, Channel and Customer referrals.
• Good qualifier: Ability to uncover / discover customer problems pains
• Good presenter: ability to present and demonstrate value based off customer pain points.
• Disciplined in sales methodology / time management : Ability to systematically execute a disciplined sales process that can be repeated in parallel without sacrificing quality
• Discipline in data integrity: Ability to continually maintain data accuracy and consistency for all accounts & opportunities.
• Ability to develop and present a business case to a customer showing high ROI across different dimensions to multiple stakeholders
• Ability to extract, document and organize lessons, knowledge and information about customers
• Ability to guide internal stakeholders through their own internal buying processes
• Grit; ability to find success in an early-stage environment without all the resources/teams available to much larger organizations
• Good understanding of how to leverage other departments including Sales Engineering, Marketing, BDRs, Product and Customer Success.

What you will do

• Sell Abnormal security solutions to your defined territory with the goal to overachieve new annual recurring revenue quota
• Work enterprise accounts (>3k mailbox organizations) from initial conversations through signing a contract and up-selling once they’re a customer.
• Prospect and generate new business opportunities with enterprise accounts (>3k mailbox organizations) to supply enough pipeline for them to hit sales targets.
• Work with Customer success to ensure a timely renewal and expansion sale opportunities
• Continually document results and maintain accurate data across all sales systems (Salesforce, Highspot, Close Plan)
• Be a voice for the customer/prospect with internal teams including Sales Engineering/POV team, Product and Marketing to ensure appropriate prioritization to close more revenue.

Must Haves

• Enterprise Account Hunter: Demonstrated 3+ years of direct (vs. overlay) enterprise experience prospecting, closing new logos and growing major accounts against incumbents.
• Skill in negotiating with large organizations and closing complex sales
• Proven performer with consistent over quota performance and/or top 5% of sales org
• Technically competent: Conversant in key areas: security, email, cloud, AI, etc.
• Cyber-security Software sales: Experience selling subscription software/SaaS to CISOs and security personnel
• Start-up experience: Success at a company that was early stage, underdog or was a new entrant with large competitors or similar (limited resources-build territory including: channel, tech partners, initial customer wins, etc.)
• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience

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A note on AI in our process:
Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.

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