Enterprise Account Executive

Picus Security; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited growth opportunities

Global exposure

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company in Chicago is looking for an experienced Enterprise Account Executive to drive sales of their innovative security validation platform. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in cybersecurity sales, with a strong customer focus and excellent communication skills. You'll collaborate with high-profile clients and work in a dynamic environment, offering substantial growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in cybersecurity sales.
• Proven ability to manage complex sales processes.
• Skills in understanding customer needs and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Generate new business opportunities through various methods.
• Work closely with partners to drive sales.
• Manage opportunity pipeline and revenue forecast.

Skills

Customer orientation

Excellent communication skills

Growth mindset

Analytical approach

Team collaboration

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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Are you passionate about technology and enjoy explaining complex solutions in a way that everybody gets excited? If so, read on!

About Picus
Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.

The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation.

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.

About The Role
If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cybersecurity company. You will be able to have a direct impact on the future of our business by helping to influence global adoption of our award-winning Complete Security Validation platform.

We are looking for a purpose driven, high-performing Enterprise Account Executive with experience in enterprise technology sales. You will be passionate about building good relationships with customers, solving customer problems and driving sales of our world-class software products.

In this role, you will be working with high-profile clients where you will become a subject matter expert through the entire sales process. You will have responsibility for Picus’ value proposition with your customers and partners, managing strategic and tactical governance, cooperating closely with your customers and partners to improve and optimise current business as well as identifying and prioritizing new opportunities.

What You'll Do

• Work as part of a passionate, purpose driven, high performance sales team who love what they do and thrive on achieving success within a great work environment
• Generate new business opportunities through both pre-qualified meetings, problem-solving and your own prospecting
• Work closely with partners to create joint plans, generate pipeline and drive opportunities to closure
• Drive business growth and expansion by developing and executing a business plan to attain predetermined goals and quotas
• Remain in regular contact with your prospects through active listening and effective discovery processes, develop a deep understanding of customer’s businesses, helping to diagnose their compensation pain-points and prescribe our available solutions
• Collaborate with internal teams, including, Pre-Sales, Product, Marketing, Support, Customer Success to deliver the sales plan and Picus vision
• Manage your opportunity pipeline and revenue forecast by leveraging our CRM system
• Work with solution providers such as resellers, service providers and integrators
• Continuous curiosity! Stay current with industry changes and trends to build expertise in cybersecurity
  
  
  
  
  

What You Have

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Account Executive managing complex sales processes in a highly consultative sales environment, preferably within the SaaS industry
• At least 5+ years experience working in Cybersecurity
• Customer orientation; skills in understanding customer’s needs and priorities. Eager to help people reach their goals while also confident enough to challenge when required
• Growth mindset and business acumen; willingness to learn about the ever-changing world of cyber security
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to build relationships
• Enthusiasm, confidence, self-motivation and passion
• Organizational and time-management skills
• Apply analytical, data-driven approach and strategic thinking, finding unique ways to executing your plan
• Advanced level of English - written and verbal skills
• High level of integrity and strong commitment to building a successful company
• Located in the West region of the United States
  
  
  
  
  

Working at Picus
Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.

Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.

Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.

Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

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