Strategic Account Executive, Southeast

Axonius; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 330,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Axonius is seeking a Strategic Account Executive for the Southeast who will own the largest enterprise opportunities in the Atlanta area and surrounding region. You will work with senior sales leaders, engage with top customers, and drive MEDDPIC-based deals in a fast‑growing cybersecurity market.

You must have a track record of closing complex sales, building regional strategies with partners and teams, and delivering value through security and IT solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a closing sales role with enterprise accounts.
• Proven ability to build regional sales strategies with partners.
• Strong negotiation skills with minimal discounting.

Responsibilities

• Manage top Southeast customers, with large enterprise accounts.
• Develop and execute regional territory strategy to hit pipeline and quota.
• Build channel partner relationships across the region.
• Qualify opportunities using value-based selling and MEDDPIC.
• Forecast using Salesforce data and MEDDPIC criteria.

Skills

Closing sales

Enterprise accounts

Regional strategy

Channel partnerships

Negotiation

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Strategic Account Executive, Southeast

Location: Candidates must reside in the Atlanta metro area

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

• Work with the largest customers in this territory, 10,000 employees and above.
• There are potentially hundreds of accounts for this territory, requiring a sales strategy to narrow focus to hit pipeline goals and overachieve on quota expectations.
• 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.

Culture and Compensation

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.

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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

About Axonius

Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. 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 supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.

Axonius makes it a priority to invest in our people with competitive compensation and benefits, growth opportunities, community‑building, and so much more.

Benefits and Inclusion

Learn more about benefits at Axonius.

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 to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.

Compliance

Axonius participates in E-Verify.

To learn more, please review the E-Verify Participation Poster (PDF) and the Right to Work Poster (PDF).