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Overview
As an Account Executive, Mid-Market, you'll identify, engage, and secure new business within Lower Mid-Market organizations with 750-1,500 employees. You'll build the pipeline and partner relationships that grow Mimecast's market share in this segment.
You'll work closely with Mimecast's partner community and cross-functional teams to convert qualified opportunities into new customers, in a fast-paced, well-structured sales environment that continues to evolve.
What You'll Do
- Research and prospect within your assigned Lower Mid-Market territory to generate qualified new business opportunities.
- Develop territory and account plans aligned with Mimecast's sales goals, and build and manage your sales pipeline.
- Lead product demonstrations and value-based presentations tailored to mid-sized IT and security organizations.
- Build relationships with economic buyers, IT leaders, and other stakeholders across the buying committee.
- Work with the Partner/Channel Development team to develop and execute joint account plans that expand pipeline coverage.
- Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual new business targets.
- Collaborate with marketing, sales engineering, and customer success to support a smooth transition from prospect to onboarding.
- Keep pipeline, activity, and forecast data current and accurate in Salesforce.
- Stay informed about industry trends, competitive offerings, and Mimecast's evolving product suite.
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated success independently managing a full-cycle new business sales territory, from prospecting and pipeline development through negotiation and closing, with a track record of meeting or exceeding quota and sales KPIs.
- Clear verbal and written communication, including the ability to explain complex solutions and their value to buyers.
- An understanding of corporate IT teams, technology buying processes, and the broader technology and cybersecurity stack.
- The ability to build trust with customers and negotiate effectively with stakeholders across the buying committee.
- A proactive approach to identifying opportunities, managing your pipeline, and executing territory plans independently.
- Experience using Salesforce or another CRM system to manage leads and opportunities.
- Experience in IT, SaaS, or cybersecurity sales is helpful, but not required.
The on-target earnings (OTE) range for this position is $176,000 - $264,000 USD (OTE) plus benefits. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits, in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications, experience, and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.
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Belonging at Mimecast
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
If you require any adjustments or accommodations due to a disability, or any other reason that may help you in your interview process, please let us know by emailing [email protected].
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated success independently managing a full-cycle new business sales territory from prospecting through negotiation and closing
- Track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas and KPIs
- Clear verbal and written communication skills, including explaining complex solutions and value to buyers
- Understanding of corporate IT teams, technology buying processes, and cybersecurity environments
- Ability to build customer trust and negotiate with multiple stakeholders
- Proactive ability to identify opportunities, manage pipelines, and execute territory plans independently
- Experience using Salesforce or another CRM system
- Experience in IT, SaaS, or cybersecurity sales
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world. Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
