Abnormal Security is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to join the Nordics team. This team sells our security solutions to Enterprise level accounts within a defined territory.
The ideal candidate for the role will be local to Sweden and have the following skillset:
- Ability to hunt: disciplined approach to early pipeline development. Comfortable and have demonstrated ability to prospect into enterprise accounts with the ability to leverage/ balance five pillars of demand generation: AE prospecting, SDR, Marketing, Channel and Customer referrals.
- Good qualifier: Ability to uncover / discover customer problems pains
- Good presenter: 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
- Discipline in data integrity: Ability to continually maintain data accuracy and consistency for all accounts & opportunities.
- 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, BDRs, Product and Customer Success.
- Sell Abnormal security solutions to your defined territory with the goal to overachieve new annual recurring revenue quota
- Work enterprise 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 enterprise 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
- Continually document results and maintain accurate data across all sales systems (Salesforce, Highspot, Close Plan)
- 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.
- Enterprise Account Hunter: Demonstrated 3+ years of direct (vs. overlay) enterprise experience prospecting, closing new logos and growing major accounts against incumbents.
- Skill in negotiating with large organizations and closing complex sales
- Proven performer with consistent over quota performance and/or top 5% of sales org
- Technically competent: Conversant in key areas: security, email, cloud, AI, etc.
- Cyber-security Software sales: Experience selling subscription software/SaaS to CISOs and security personnel
- Start-up experience: Success at a company that was early stage, underdog or was a new entrant with large competitors or similar (limited resources-build territory including: channel, tech partners, initial customer wins, etc.)
- BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
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Skills Required
- 3+ years direct enterprise selling experience (prospecting, closing new logos, growing accounts)
- Experience selling cybersecurity subscription software/SaaS to CISOs and security teams
- Proven quota attainment and consistent over-performance (top performer)
- Skill negotiating with large organizations and closing complex enterprise deals
- Technically competent in security, email, cloud, and AI concepts
- Start-up experience at an early-stage or underdog company
- Ability to prospect and develop pipeline using AE prospecting, SDR, marketing, channel, and referrals
- Ability to develop and present multi-stakeholder ROI/business cases
- Ability to maintain accurate sales data across systems (Salesforce, Highspot, Close Plan)
- Experience working enterprise accounts (>3k mailbox organizations) from initial conversation through contract and upsell
- BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
Abnormal Security Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Abnormal Security and has not been reviewed or approved by Abnormal Security.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered aggressively benchmarked to leading tech markets with annual reviews, and feedback suggests engineering and sales roles are compensated competitively with strong upside potential.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as robust, including employer-paid premiums for employees in prior postings, One Medical access, and globally designed healthcare and parental leave.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off provisions include flexible/unlimited PTO, company holidays, and paid parental leave that the company positions as globally available.
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What We Do
The Abnormal Security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based Office 365 and G Suite integration, Abnormal sets up in minutes and does not disrupt email flow. Abnormal Security was founded in 2018 by CEO Evan Reiser, CTO Sanjay Jeyakumar, Head of Machine Learning Jeshua Bratman, and Founding Engineers Abhijit Bagri and Dmitry Chechik. The team previously built behavioral profiling and machine learning technologies at Twitter, Google and Pinterest that are being applied to solve a problem that costs organizations $1 billion per year, according to the FBI. The Abnormal Security platform stops targeted phishing, business email compromise and account takeover attacks that have never been seen before.
