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As a member of the Qualys Inside Sales Team, the Account Executive, is expected to meet and exceed their "new" sales target. The AE must have excellent communication skills, professionalism, and the ability to perform at a high level of consultative sales & articulate the business value to customers. The AE must possess a "HUNTER/CLOSER" mentality with a proven track record of winning "value-driven" sales.
The Account Executive is responsible for actively driving and managing new direct and channel business with business prospects. As a sales professional, the AE will be accountable for building pipeline and closing business within the assigned region. The ideal candidate is motivated to solve critical security challenges facing our prospects and able to connect with them at every level to identify the solutions that best meet their needs. The AE will partner closely with Solution Architects, Sales Leadership, and Marketing to ensure our success.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of the entire sales cycle from initial contact to close for target customers in the assigned geographic region
- Build and maintain a territory plan to develop and grow your territory to achieve bookings objectives
- Establish new relationships and build the pipeline through outbound efforts and channel partners
- Provide accurate forecast and achieve bookings objectives
- Deliver high-level and detailed sales presentations
- Maintain continuity and up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, technical developments, and governmental regulations that effect target markets
- Responsible for attending conferences, seminars both in-region and nationally
Qualifications
- 3+ years in a closing role preferably selling technology or SaaS solutions
- A proven track record for accurate forecasting and achieving quota on a consistent basis
- Skilled at developing pipeline through direct efforts and working with channel partners
- Excellent presentation and listening skills; ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders and C-level contacts
- Organized and analytical, able to eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches
- Ideal candidate must be self-motivated with experience and knowledge of cyber security sales.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Skills Required
- 3+ years in a closing sales role
- Experience selling technology or SaaS solutions
- Proven track record of accurate forecasting and consistently achieving quota
- Experience developing pipeline through direct efforts and channel partners
- Excellent presentation and listening skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders and C-level contacts
- Organized and analytical approach to eliminating sales obstacles
- Self-motivation and knowledge or experience in cybersecurity sales
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Qualys Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Qualys and has not been reviewed or approved by Qualys.
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits costs are widely viewed as low for employees and dependents, with healthcare often described as almost fully paid for. Feedback suggests this affordability helps offset perceptions of lower base pay in some roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are broad, including multiple medical plan options, dental and vision coverage, mental health support, and disability insurance. Benefits are described as “pretty amazing” or “great,” reinforcing perceived quality and coverage depth.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is accessible through company stock plans and an employee stock purchase plan. Compensation packages commonly include equity alongside salary and bonus, which some consider a meaningful part of total rewards.
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What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
