Enterprise Account Executive

Abnormal AI Abnormal AI · Vertical AI · United Kingdom · Remote · Enterprise

Enterprise Account Executive role focused on selling Abnormal Security's AI-powered security solutions to enterprise clients in the UK. The role involves prospecting, pipeline generation, closing new business, and up-selling, with a focus on achieving new ARR quota. Requires experience in cybersecurity software sales, enterprise account hunting, and navigating complex sales cycles. The candidate should be technically competent in areas like security, email, cloud, and AI, and have experience in early-stage environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sell Abnormal security solutions to your defined territory with the goal to overachieve new annual recurring revenue quota
  2. Work enterprise accounts (>3k mailbox organizations) from initial conversations through signing a contract and up-selling once they’re a customer.
  3. Prospect and generate new business opportunities with enterprise accounts (>3k mailbox organizations) to supply enough pipeline for them to hit sales targets.
  4. Work with Customer success to ensure a timely renewal and expansion sale opportunities
  5. Continually document results and maintain accurate data across all sales systems (Salesforce, Highspot, Close Plan)

Skills

Required

  • Ability to hunt: disciplined approach to early pipeline development.
  • Good qualifier: Ability to uncover / discover customer problems pains
  • Good presenter: ability to present and demonstrate value based off customer pain points.
  • Disciplined in sales methodology / time management
  • Discipline in data integrity
  • Ability to develop and present a business case to a customer showing high ROI
  • Ability to extract, document and organize lessons, knowledge and information about customers
  • Ability to guide internal stakeholders through their own internal buying processes
  • Grit; ability to find success in an early-stage environment
  • Good understanding of how to leverage other departments including Sales Engineering, Marketing, BDRs, Product and Customer Success.
  • Enterprise Account Hunter: Demonstrated 3+ years of direct (vs. overlay) enterprise experience prospecting, closing new logos and growing major accounts against incumbents.
  • Skill in negotiating with large organizations and closing complex sales
  • Proven performer with consistent over quota performance and/or top 5% of sales org
  • Technically competent: Conversant in key areas: security, email, cloud, AI, etc.
  • Cyber-security Software sales: Experience selling subscription software/SaaS to CISOs and security personnel
  • Start-up experience: Success at a company that was early stage, underdog or was a new entrant with large competitors or similar
  • BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated 3+ years of direct (vs. overlay) enterprise experience prospecting, closing new logos and growing major accounts against incumbents.
  • Skill in negotiating with large organizations and closing complex sales
  • Proven performer with consistent over quota performance and/or top 5% of sales org
  • Technically competent: Conversant in key areas: security, email, cloud, AI, etc.
  • Cyber-security Software sales: Experience selling subscription software/SaaS to CISOs and security personnel
  • Success at a company that was early stage, underdog or was a new entrant with large competitors or similar (limited resources-build territory including: channel, tech partners, initial customer wins, etc.)