Strategic Account Executive

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Senior level
Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
Drive enterprise cybersecurity software sales across strategic accounts. Build customer and partner relationships, identify expansion opportunities, develop account plans, manage pipelines and forecasts, and guide consultative sales processes through closure. Collaborate with solution architects, product, marketing, support, and customer success teams while serving as a cybersecurity subject matter expert and addressing customer business priorities.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you passionate about technology and enjoy explaining complex solutions in a way that everybody gets excited? If so, read on!
 
About Picus
Picus Security is an exposure validation company. One platform proves what attackers can exploit and what your defenses stop, turning every exposure into a defensible decision, autonomously and at the machine speed today's AI threats demand.

Picus validates attack surfaces, exposures, and security controls as one continuous loop: validate, decide, fix, re-validate. Instead of ranking findings by severity score, Picus proves which exposures are genuinely exploitable in your environment, including the business-critical, restricted, and air-gapped assets a live exploit can never safely touch, so teams act on what truly matters and resolve each exposure into a clear call to patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept with evidence.

The Picus Platform spans Autonomous Penetration Testing, Exposure Validation, and Breach and Attack Simulation, unified by Picus Swarm, a swarm of AI agents that runs the whole validation loop continuously. It reaches across on-prem, hybrid cloud, and endpoint environments, with 75+ integrations that ingest from scanners like Tenable and Wiz and operationalize through your EDR, SIEM, firewall, and ticketing tools.

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus proves and improves the security controls you already own, doubling control effectiveness within three months. Picus holds a 95% recommendation rate, 4.9 on G2, and 4.8 on Gartner Peer Insights, and is the #1 Leader on Frost Radar for Automated Security Validation.


About The Role

If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cybersecurity company.

We are looking for a purpose-driven, high-performing Strategic Account Executive with experience in enterprise technology sales to strategic accounts. You will be passionate about building long-lasting and impactful relationships with a select group of customers, solving their problems and driving sales of our world-class software products.

In this role, you will become a subject matter expert through the entire sales process. You will have responsibility for Picus’ value proposition with your customers and partners across your portfolio, managing strategic and tactical governance, cooperating closely with internal teams and partners to improve and optimize current business as well as identifying and prioritizing opportunities for Picus.

What You'll Do

  • Work as part of a passionate, purpose-driven, high-performance sales team who love what they do and thrive on achieving success within a great work environment,
  • Nurture and tend a select group of customers and potential customers to generate and identify new business and expansion opportunities through your relationship management and problem-solving skills,
  • Work closely with partners to deepen relationships and drive opportunities to closure to drive business growth by developing and executing account-specific business plans to attain predetermined goals and quotas,
  • Remain in regular contact with your customers and prospects to maintain evergreen discovery processes, develop a deep understanding of customer businesses and priorities, helping them to discover their pain points and prescribe our available solutions,
  • Collaborate with internal teams, including Solution Architects, Product, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success to deliver the sales plan and Picus vision,
  • Manage your opportunity pipeline and revenue forecast by leveraging our CRM system,
  • Stay current with industry changes and trends to build expertise in cybersecurity and maintain familiarity with the owned accounts.

What You Have

  • Proven experience as a Strategic Account Executive managing sales processes in complex organizations through a highly consultative sales environment, preferably within the SaaS industry,
  • At least 8+ years of experience working in Cybersecurity,
  • Customer orientation; skills in understanding customers’ needs and priorities. Eager to help people reach their goals while also confident enough to challenge when required,
  • Growth mindset and business acumen; willingness to learn about the ever-changing world of cybersecurity,
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to build relationships,
  • Enthusiasm, confidence, self-motivation and passion,
  • Organizational and time-management skills,
  • Apply analytical, data-driven approach and strategic thinking, finding unique ways to execute your plan,
  • Advanced level of English - written and verbal skills,
  • High level of integrity and strong commitment to building a successful company.

Working at Picus
Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.
 
Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.
 
Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.
 
Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.
 
 
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law.  Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy. 
 

Skills Required

  • Proven experience as a Strategic Account Executive managing complex sales processes in a highly consultative environment
  • At least 8 years of experience working in cybersecurity
  • Experience in enterprise technology sales to strategic accounts
  • Experience in the SaaS industry
  • Customer orientation and ability to understand customer needs and priorities
  • Growth mindset and business acumen
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to build customer and partner relationships
  • Enthusiasm, confidence, self-motivation, and passion
  • Organizational and time-management skills
  • Analytical, data-driven approach and strategic thinking
  • Advanced written and verbal English skills
  • High level of integrity and commitment to building a successful company
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
234 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Picus Security is the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). The Picus Complete Security Control Validation Platform is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to continuously validate the effectiveness of security controls against cyber-attacks and supply actionable mitigation insights to optimize them. Picus has offices in North America, Europe and APAC and is supported by a global network of channel and alliance partners. The company is dedicated to helping security professionals become more threat-centric and via its Purple Academy offers free online training to share the latest offensive and defensive cybersecurity strategies. Find more here: https://www.picussecurity.com/

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