Strategic Account Executive - NYC

Axonius; New York (NY); Remote; USD 330,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative cybersecurity company as a Strategic Account Executive, where you will drive sales strategies and build relationships with top-tier clients. This role offers a unique opportunity to work alongside senior sales leaders and tackle complex sales cycles. You will be responsible for creating a robust pipeline and executing value-based selling techniques to exceed quota expectations. If you thrive in a competitive environment and possess a strong negotiation skill set, this position is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to contribute to a rapidly growing company recognized for its innovative approach in the cybersecurity landscape.

Benefits

Stock Options

Attractive Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Diversity and Inclusion Programs

Qualifications

• 7+ years in closing sales roles with a strong hunter mentality.
• Experience managing complex sales cycles with Enterprise accounts.

Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive sales strategy for large enterprise accounts.
• Build strong relationships with channel partners and vendors.

Skills

Sales Strategy Development

Value-Based Selling

Negotiation Skills

Salesforce Management

Technical Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Sales Certifications

Tools

Salesforce

MEDDPIC

Job description

Location: New York City

The Strategic Account Executive is a highly visible role, requiring strong business acumen and an understanding of the current cybersecurity landscape. By joining the Axonius Strategic Sales team, you will have an opportunity to work alongside our most senior sales leaders and our largest customers.

Key Responsibilities

You will be working with the largest customers in this territory, 10k employees and above. There are potentially hundreds of accounts for this territory, which requires having a sales strategy to narrow your focus to successfully hit pipeline goals and overachieve on quota expectations.

To be successful in the role, the Account Executive will:

• Create and execute on a comprehensive regional territory strategy to build a pipeline funnel of 4x quota


• Build strong channel partner relationships and security/IT vendor relationships across the region


• Qualify opportunities using value based selling techniques and MEDDPIC


• Navigate technical conversations to plan and execute on value added POV activities with the Sales Engineer.


• Manage Salesforce hygiene activities, including frequent Chatter posts on deal updates, updating strategic next-steps, ensuring MEDDPIC criteria is up-to-date, and accurate close dates for opportunities.


• Accurately forecast on close dates, leveraging reverse timeline techniques

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience in a closing sales role with a strong hunter mentality and track record of success


• Have clear examples of managing complex sales cycles with Enterprise accounts.


• Successful track record of building and executing on a regional strategy, including channel partners, BDRs, Marketing, Sales Engineering, and Product


• Conceptual understanding of security and IT solutions such as endpoint agents, vulnerability scanners, CMDB, SIEM, Active Directory, Firewalls, Cloud, and SaaS.


• Proven track record of strong negotiation skills with minimal discounting.


• Ability to work creatively, independently, and effectively with minimal supervision.


• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

Axonius is passionate about our culture and our GROWTH values. Our Sales leadership is excited to bring people to the team who are culture adds, not just culture fits. The right candidate will have the following key characteristics:

• High intrinsic motivation and a "can do" attitude


• Committed to high ethics and high standards


• Competitive with the drive to win


• Collaborative; communicative and transparent


• Strategic thinker and resourceful individual who can think out of the box and improvise to meet the demands of changing conditions

Additional notes:

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• #LI-REMOTE

Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate's salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options and attractive benefits.

Annual On Target Earnings: $330,000 — $350,000 USD

A little more about Axonius:

Axonius transforms asset intelligence into intelligent action. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization's IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence. Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius covers the lifecycle of millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.

Axonius is named to the 2025 Fast Company World's Most Innovative Companies and the 2024 Forbes Cloud 100. Axonius is recognized with the Great Place to Work Certification and for two years in a row, Axonius was ranked Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. Axonius has been cited as the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in history by revenue.

At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

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