Account Executive

Posted One Month Ago
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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Remote
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
Drive full sales lifecycle for net-new enterprise prospects, build and qualify pipeline, engage C-level executives and channel partners, present and demo Qualys solutions, respond to RFIs/RFPs, maintain CRM forecasts, and occasionally visit customers and events.
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Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
The Enterprise Account Executive is responsible for driving the full sales lifecycle for net new prospects through our channel ecosystem. Using the MEDPICC Sales Methodology to engage, advise, negotiate, and close prospect opportunities successfully. You can identify and understand your prospects' needs, pains, and desired outcomes to build effective business cases that demonstrate ROI and the Value Proposition of Qualys.
As an Enterprise Account Executive, the ideal candidate will be required to have strong communication skills, be able to operate with C-levels within companies of 3,000 employees and above, whilst engaging and building relationships with Channel partners. The candidate will be required to present Qualys solutions and demonstrate the product in line with prospect's requirements.
Responsibilities:
  • Build effective net new pipeline coverage (4x) to achieve your sales targets.
  • Identify and qualify leads, build relationships with decision makers, understand customer needs, deliver sales presentations, negotiate contracts, and closing.
  • Develop relationships with C-level and other executive relationships.
  • Clear, succinct communicator – Using your customer’s language, you’ll help them clearly understand the value
  • Actively follow and support the Qualys Lead Generation activity
  • Demonstrate, prove and align product capabilities to support customer goals.
  • Respond to prospect questions on technical and business-related issues, including RFIs/RFPs
  • Maintain accurate and timely customer/prospect, pipeline, and service forecast data within our CRM.
  • Occasional onsite customer visits / conferences / trade shows
  • Frequent channel partner engagement and activities.
Required Qualifications
  • Ideal candidate will be self-motivated with knowledge of IT security and used to control typical business and sales processes.
  • Proven experience of new business sales.
  • Motivated, driven and results oriented.
  • Excellent English written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to learn, understand and apply new technologies.
  • Keep sales admin up to date and complete sales reports when necessary.
  • Capable of blending technical details with commercial requirements
  • Minimum 5 years experience in Large Enterprise sales.
  • Minimum 5 years experience in Cybersecurity sales.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in MEDDIC / MEDDPIC sales methodology
  • Experience selling into Public Sector / Manufacturing / Energy / Utility sectors
  • Experience in selling into CISO / CIO prospects
  • Experience with Salesforce and Gong!

Skills Required

  • Minimum 5 years experience in Large Enterprise sales
  • Minimum 5 years experience in Cybersecurity sales
  • Proven experience of new business sales
  • Knowledge of IT security and typical business and sales processes
  • Strong written and oral English communication and ability to engage C-level executives
  • Ability to learn, understand and apply new technologies
  • Maintain accurate CRM data, pipeline, and sales forecasts
  • Motivated, driven and results oriented
  • Experience in MEDDIC / MEDDPIC sales methodology
  • Experience selling into Public Sector, Manufacturing, Energy or Utility sectors
  • Experience selling into CISO / CIO prospects
  • Experience with Salesforce and Gong

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Foster City, CA
2,736 Employees
Year Founded: 1999

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

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