Account Executive

Posted 5 Hours Ago
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2 Locations
Remote
Mid level
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
Drives new enterprise and channel sales with large organizations, managing prospecting, presentations, RFP responses, technical discovery, customer support, and deal closure. The role requires independently leading sales cycles, maintaining a qualified funnel, responding to inbound leads, cold calling Fortune 500 organizations, attending industry events, and presenting security and compliance solutions to prospects and customers.
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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 actively driving and managing new direct and channel business with large enterprise prospects, 5,000 employees and up. We are looking for a candidate who combines a sales background with the technical skills of an engineer. Strong sales skills are a must, and the ability to lead the prospects through the sales cycle without additional technical assistance. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background.


Responsibilities:

  • Hunt, develop, and close new business opportunities
  • Delivery of high-level and detailed sales presentations
  • Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
  • Provide functional and technical support to prospects and customers
  • Responsible for attending conferences, seminars virtually, in-region and nationally
  • Ability to manage a realistic sales funnel, follow up on inbound leads quickly, and cold call into large Fortune 500 / S&P 500 size organizations

Qualifications:

  • Ideal candidate must be self-motivated with strong knowledge in security and compliance space: Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance, Web Application Scanning, Threat Hunting / EDR, File Integrity Monitoring, and other enterprise security solutions. Strong track record of hunting, consulting, and closing new business
  • Experience with Qualys is a plus, but not required
  • Familiarity with compliance benchmarks such as CIS level 1 & 2, PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST, NERC, CIP, NIST, etc.
  • Must possess strong presentation skills and be able to communicate professionally in response to emails, RFPs and when submitting reports
  • 5-7 years relevant experience
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Able to travel throughout sales territory
  • Able to comfortably present to prospects and clients using video conferencing solutions in a work-from-home environment


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Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.

Skills Required

  • 5-7 years of relevant sales experience
  • Strong track record of hunting, consulting, and closing new business
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise security and compliance solutions, including vulnerability management, policy compliance, web application scanning, threat hunting, EDR, and file integrity monitoring
  • Familiarity with compliance benchmarks such as CIS, PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST, NERC CIP, and NIST
  • Strong sales skills and ability to independently lead prospects through the sales cycle
  • Strong presentation, written, oral, and professional communication skills
  • Ability to respond to technical and functional RFIs and RFPs
  • Ability to provide functional and technical support to prospects and customers
  • Ability to manage a sales funnel, follow up on inbound leads, and cold call large enterprise organizations
  • Self-motivated work style
  • Ability to travel throughout the sales territory
  • Ability to present using video conferencing solutions in a work-from-home environment
  • Experience with Qualys

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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