The Mid-Market Account Executive will sell cybersecurity solutions, manage accounts from prospecting to signing contracts, and collaborate with internal teams to meet sales targets.
About the Role
Abnormal Security is looking for a Mid-Market Account Executive to join our Sales org. The Mid-Market sales team is responsible for bringing new, small to medium-sized business into Abnormal’s portfolio of customers. This is a full-cycle sales role, working the deal cycle from prospect to close for accounts located in your territory. The ideal candidate will have a hunter mentality, experience in & a passion for cybersecurity, team selling experience, and be ready to hit the ground running.
What you will do
- Sell Abnormal security solutions to your defined territory with the goal to overachieve new annual recurring revenue quota
- Work Mid Market accounts (<3.5k mailbox organizations) from initial conversations through signing a contract and up-selling once they’re a customer.
- Prospect and generate new business opportunities with Mid Market accounts (<3.5k mailbox organizations) to supply enough pipeline for them to hit sales targets.
- Work with Customer success to ensure a timely renewal and expansion sale opportunities
- Be a voice for the customer/prospect with internal teams including Sales Engineering/POV team, Product and Marketing to ensure appropriate prioritization to close more revenue.
Must Haves
- Must be located in the Greater Detroit area.
- Ability to hunt: a disciplined approach to early pipeline development. Comfortable and have demonstrated ability to prospect into enterprise accounts with the ability to leverage/ balance the pillars of demand generation: AE prospecting, Marketing, Channel, and Customer referrals.
- Good qualifier: Ability to uncover/discover customer problems and pains
- Good presenter: the ability to present and demonstrate value based off customer pain points.
- Disciplined in sales methodology / time management: Ability to systematically execute a disciplined sales process that can be repeated in parallel without sacrificing quality
- Ability to develop and present a business case to a customer showing high ROI across different dimensions to multiple stakeholders
- 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 without all the resources/teams available to much larger organizations
- Good understanding of how to leverage other departments including Sales Engineering, Marketing, Product and Customer Success.
- Cultural fit: VOICE
- Velocity to outpace attackers and outpace our competition
- Ownership to empower new leaders to step up and take action
- Intellectual Honesty to uncover the best ideas and the right actions
- Customer Obsession to focus us on what is most valuable
- Excellence to achieve our ambition of being the best
Nice to Haves
- 2+ years of experience selling in cybersecurity
- 4 Years in an individual contributor role
- MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, or Command of the Sale sales methodology training
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At Abnormal Security certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits. Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. Learn more about our Compensation and Equity Philosophy on our Benefits & Perks page.
Base pay range:
$76,500—$110,000 USD
San Francisco/New York Base pay range:
$94,000—$110,500 USD
Top Skills
Cybersecurity
Sales Methodology
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