About the Role
Abnormal AI is seeking a bilingual (English/French) Mid-Market Account Executive to join its dynamic Sales organization, covering the Quebec market. This team drives new business growth by acquiring small to medium-sized customers and expanding Abnormal's footprint across the region.
This is a full-cycle sales role, where the Account Executive will own the entire sales process, from initial prospecting through to deal closure, within a defined Quebec territory. The ideal candidate will bring a strong hunter mindset, a genuine passion for cybersecurity, experience collaborating in team-selling environments, and the drive to make an immediate impact. Fluency in both English and French is essential to effectively engage with prospects and customers across Quebec.
What you will do
- Sell Abnormal security solutions across your defined Quebec territory with the goal to overachieve new annual recurring revenue quota
- Work Mid-Market 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 Mid-Market accounts (<3k mailbox organizations) to build enough pipeline to hit sales targets
- Work with Customer Success to ensure timely renewals and identify expansion opportunities
- Be a voice for the customer and prospect with internal teams including Sales Engineering, Product, and Marketing to ensure appropriate prioritization and close more revenue
- Communicate fluently in both English and French, adapting communication style to fit customer preference and regional business norms
Must Haves
- 2+ years of experience selling in cybersecurity
- 4 years in an individual contributor role
- Fluency in both English and French, written and spoken
- Disciplined pipeline generation across channels (prospecting, marketing, referrals, partners)
- Strong at qualifying needs and presenting ROI driven value to stakeholders
- Executes a repeatable sales process with focus and time management
- Navigates internal and customer buying processes effectively
- Gathers and applies customer insights to improve execution
- Thrives in early stage, resource constrained environments
- Collaborates cross functionally (SEs, Marketing, Product, CS)
Nice to Haves
- MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, or Command of the Sale sales methodology training
- Familiarity with Quebec's business culture and regulatory landscape (e.g., Bill 96 / French language requirements for business)
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A note on AI in our process:
Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore. They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.
Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of experience selling in cybersecurity
- Four years of experience in an individual contributor role
- Fluent written and spoken English and French
- Experience generating pipeline through prospecting, marketing, referrals, and partners
- Ability to qualify customer needs and present ROI-driven value
- Ability to execute a repeatable sales process with strong focus and time management
- Ability to navigate internal and customer buying processes
- Ability to gather and apply customer insights
- Ability to work effectively in early-stage, resource-constrained environments
- Cross-functional collaboration with Sales Engineering, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success
- MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, or Command of the Sale sales methodology training
- Familiarity with Quebec business culture and regulatory requirements, including Bill 96
Abnormal Security Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
