Account Executive, Enterprise

Vanta · Enterprise · Sydney, Australia · Revenue

This role is for an Account Executive focused on enterprise clients for Vanta, a company that provides compliance automation and risk management solutions. The role involves building and managing sales pipelines, closing deals, and collaborating with product and engineering teams. While the company uses AI and the role mentions openness to using AI tools, the core function is sales, not AI development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identifying promising prospects, building and managing the sales pipeline, running PoVs, negotiating and closing deals
  2. Prioritizing your portfolio of prospects, devising and executing account strategies and action plans
  3. Devising effective outbound activities to build a robust pipeline and adequate pipeline coverage
  4. Establishing valuable connections with senior executives and decision-makers within the CISO department
  5. Providing customers with education and guidance on the value of Vanta's offerings

Skills

Required

  • B2B SaaS sales experience
  • Pipeline management
  • Negotiation
  • Account strategy
  • Outbound prospecting
  • Executive relationship building
  • Customer education
  • Forecasting
  • Collaboration with product teams
  • Complex deal management
  • New logo hunting
  • Communication skills
  • Executive presence
  • Problem-solving
  • Technical proficiency
  • Consultative selling
  • Customer retention

Nice to have

  • Experience in the security / compliance space

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 5+ years of experience in selling B2B SaaS to mid-market and enterprise customers
  • proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quarterly quotas over time
  • track record of successfully closing six-figure deals, with comfort flexing into the seven-figure range
  • Technical proficiency to understand Vanta's software and establish rapport with technical prospects