Principal Account Executive

Posted 11 Days Ago
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London, Greater London, England
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Software
The Role
The Principal Account Executive prospect, maintains, and expands key customer relations, manages the sales cycle, and collaborates with various teams to achieve sales goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

Looking for an innovative, high-growth, multi-award-winning company in one of the hottest segments of the security market?  Look no further than Veracode! 

Veracode is a global leader in Application Risk Management for the AI era. Powered by trillions of lines of code scans and a proprietary AI-generated remediation engine, the Veracode platform is trusted by organizations worldwide to build and maintain secure software from code creation to cloud deployment.

Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the Veracode blog, and on LinkedIn and Twitter

Our Principal Account Executives are key individuals who prospect, maintain, and expand relationships with accounts in assigned territories. You will be responsible for the full sales cycle including outbound prospecting, building pipeline, and closing business. We are looking for PAE's who are self-starters with a hunter mentality, exhibiting a consultative selling approach with our customers and channel partners.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Learn the product offerings to become a subject matter expert for key clients.
  • Develop account and territory sales plans and strategies for assigned customer base to meet assigned sales quotas and goals.
  • Conduct outbound prospecting and maintain key relationships to educate current and potential clients on products and services.
  • Prepare and present sales proposals and quotations to clients.
  • Organize, track and maintain client account and contact information, as well as prospect updates in CRM database.
  • Review and negotiate complex agreements and be the primary contact for Veracode.
  • Own and resolve general sales inquiries pertaining to accounts and respond to RFPs.
  • Collaborate across the organization with business development, marketing, services, pre-sales engineering, renewals, development, and executive teams to ensure successful go to market strategies.
  • Attend and participate in trade shows and seminars as needed.
  • Participate in other tasks or projects as requested by supervisor/manager.

What we’re looking for:

  • 5-8 years of Sales experience selling B2B applications; on-demand/SaaS, IT Infrastructure Management
  • Proven track record of selling to technical audiences like Security, Dev/Ops and IT Operations, and C-Level suite
  • Strong business acumen and a proven history of quota over-achievement
  • Ability to adapt to a rapidly expanding and changing environment at a high growth company
  • Ability to work in both direct and channel selling environment
  • Clear understanding of procurement, negotiations and deal closing
  • Force Management experience desirable
  • SFDC or equivalent CRM experience
  • Travel required of up to 20%

What’s in it for you:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs
  • Unlimited paid time off and flexible work arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance
  • Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow with us
  • An annual contribution of 6% towards your pension
  • Life assurance, personal accident, and long-term disability insurance
  • Enhance parental leave initiatives as well as other family friendly benefits
  • Annual fitness reimbursements and access to apps that support wellbeing
  • Summer and end of year social events to bring the team together and celebrate our success
Fraudulent Recruitment Alert - Be Aware and Stay Informed

At Veracode, we prioritize a secure recruitment process. Unfortunately, fake recruitment and job offer scams are on the rise. They aim to deceive candidates through emails and calls to obtain sensitive information.

Here’s our recruitment promise to you:

  • Comprehensive Interview Process: We never extend job offers without a comprehensive interview process involving our recruitment team and hiring managers.
  • Offer Communications: Our job offers are not sent solely through email, and we will never ask you to pay for your own hardware.
  • Email Verification: Recruiting emails from Veracode will always originate from an “@veracode.com" email address.

If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter, or telephone communication claiming to be from Veracode, please reach out to us at [email protected] before taking any further action.


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The Company
HQ: Burlington, Massachusetts
669 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Veracode is intelligent software security. ​The Veracode Software Security Platform continuously finds flaws and vulnerabilities at every stage of the modern software development lifecycle.​ Using powerful AI trained on a carefully curated, trusted dataset from experience analyzing trillions of lines of code, Veracode customers fix flaws faster with high accuracy. ​

Trusted by security teams, developers, and business leaders from thousands of the world’s leading organizations, Veracode is the pioneer, continuing to redefine what intelligent software security means

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