Abnormal Security
Mid Market Account Executive
To protect the internet
Sales and customer success
Full-time
Remote | GMT+8, GMT+9, GMT+10
Visa sponsorship · No
Mid Level · A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 years of experience.
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Why Abnormal Security
Abnormal provides total protection against the widest range of attacks including phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering, executive impersonation, supply chain compromise, internal account compromise, spam, and graymail.
About the role
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 (<3k 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 (<3k 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
- Ability to hunt: a disciplined approach to early pipeline development. Comfortable and have demonstrated ability to prospect into Mid-Market 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
What you'll be responsible for
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Outbound Prospecting
Generate new sales opportunities and move them through the funnel by drafting outreach messages and sequences, and identifying the needs of customers
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Sales Pipeline Management
Efficiently navigate the CRM and other operational tools to create, update, retrieve, and understand information about accounts and opportunities
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Sales Team Enablement
Identify opportunities to enhance processes and resources that enable team performance and time spent with prospects or customers
Skills you'll need
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Results orientation
Focuses on outcomes and the steps it takes to achieve them
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Critical thinking
Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight
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Problem solving
Identifies problems and develops logical solutions that address the problems
Meet the team
Our Sales Team is responsible for building a pipeline that generates growth and revenue for Abnormal Security. They are highly motivated and passionate about the extraordinary value Abnormal is providing to our customers. They conduct themselves with exceptional professionalism, honesty, and integrity.