Account Director, Enterprise Seattle, WA - Remote

Recorded Future, Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Recorded Future, Inc. is seeking an Account Director in Seattle to win new business and grow strategic relationships with key customers.

You will open doors, navigate complex organizations, and drive long-term growth through cross-sell and expansion within established accounts. The role combines a new-business mindset with strategic account growth and requires prospecting into new organizations, developing opportunities, and managing multi-threaded relationships with executives and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Evidence of building new business pipelines and closing complex deals.
• Ability to develop strategic account plans for key accounts and whitespace.
• Experience navigating multi-level executive buying groups and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Identify and close new business opportunities with cybersecurity, IT, procurement, and executives.
• Create strategic account plans for Key Accounts and expand Recorded Future footprint.
• Build multi-threaded relationships across complex organizations and senior leaders.
• Drive expansion, upsell, and cross-sell while protecting long-term relationships.
• Identify customer risk and demonstrate business value of solutions.
• Apply a consultative, insight-driven sales approach to align with priorities.
• Manage full sales cycle end-to-end in 4–8 month cycles.
• Partner with Sales Engineers and internal teams on tailored solutions.
• Maintain territory plans balancing new-logo generation and retention.

Skills

New business development

Land and expand

Enterprise sales

Account growth

Stakeholder influence

Complex sales cycles

Consultative selling

Job description

With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!

Recorded Future is looking for an Account Director who thrives on winning new business. This is designed for a commercially driven seller who can open doors, navigate complex organizations, and build long-term customer relationships that create meaningful growth.

The ideal candidate combines a new-business mindset with strategic account growth skills—equally comfortable prospecting into new organizations, developing complex opportunities, and expanding relationships within established “key” accounts.

What You’ll Do

• Identify, develop, and close new business opportunities, building relationships with cybersecurity, IT, procurement, and executive stakeholders
• Develop and execute strategic account plans for Key Accounts, identifying whitespace, new use cases, and opportunities to expand Recorded Future’s footprint
• Build multi-threaded relationships across complex organizations and engage stakeholders at multiple levels, including senior executives
• Drive expansion, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts while protecting and strengthening long-term customer relationships
• Proactively identify customer risk and reinforce the business value and impact of Recorded Future’s solutions
• Apply a consultative, insight-driven sales approach to uncover customer challenges and align solutions to strategic priorities
• Manage the full sales cycle end-to-end, from prospecting and discovery through negotiation and close, with typical deal cycles of 4–8 months
• Partner closely with Sales Engineers and internal teams to develop tailored solutions and progress complex opportunities
• Maintain accurate territory and account plans that balance new-logo pipeline generation, account retention, and expansion growth.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven success in driving new business development with a “land and expand” strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to prospect, develop, and close new enterprise business
• Experience managing and growing accounts within large and complex organizations
• Strong track record of identifying whitespace and expansion opportunities across teams, business units, and use cases
• Ability to navigate complex buying groups and influence technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders
• Strong consultative selling, discovery, negotiation, and relationship-building skills
• Experience owning complex 4–8 month sales cycles from initial engagement through close
• Ability to balance the different disciplines required for generating new business and developing long-term strategic growth.
• 5+ years experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or other security solutions in a SaaS enterprise environment is preferred

Why This Role

If you enjoy the challenge of winning new customers while building deeper, more strategic relationships with existing ones, this role offers the best of both worlds. You’ll have the opportunity to create new relationships from the ground up while developing Key Accounts into long-term strategic partnerships that deliver meaningful value for both the customer and Recorded Future.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $123,000-$184,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K. Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.

Why should you join Recorded Future?
Recorded Future employees (or “Futurists”), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

We are committed to maintaining an environment that attracts and retains talent from a diverse range of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. By ensuring all feel included and respected for being unique and bringing their whole selves to work, Recorded Future is made a better place every day.
If you need any accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our recruiting team at [e-mail]

Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
Recorded Future will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.

Recorded Future does not administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. This is in compliance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in alignment with our hiring practices across all jurisdictions.

Recorded Future maintains a drug-free workplace.

Note: Our interview process for all final-round candidates requires a mandatoryin-person interviewor a live, scheduledvideo conference with the hiring manager. We do not conduct interviews via instant messaging or text. All communications during the application process will come from individuals within our HR department via their Recorded Future email address.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Recorded Future will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Recorded Future, including those sent to our employees or through our website, will become the property of Recorded Future. Recorded Future will not be liable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Agencies must have a valid written agreement in place with Recorded Future's recruitment team and must receive written authorization before submitting resumes. Submissions made without such agreements and authorization will not be accepted and no fees will be paid.