Enterprise Account Executive

Menlo Ventures; Sweden; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Abnormal AI seeks an experienced Enterprise Account Executive to join its team in Sweden. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience prospecting and closing new enterprise accounts. Responsibilities include selling security solutions, generating business opportunities, and maintaining accurate sales data using tools like Salesforce.

Successful candidates will demonstrate negotiation skills with large organizations and a track record of over-quota performance in cyber-security software sales.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct enterprise experience prospecting and closing new logos.
• Experience selling subscription software/SaaS to CISOs and security personnel.
• Proven performer with consistent over quota performance.

Responsibilities

• Sell Abnormal Security solutions to enterprise accounts.
• Prospect and generate new business opportunities.
• Document results and maintain accurate data across sales systems.

Skills

Enterprise Account Hunter

Negotiation skills

Technically competent

Cyber-security Software sales

Start-up experience

Ability to present value

Education

BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Salesforce

Highspot

Close Plan

Job description

About The Role

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

Ideal Candidate

• 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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