Account Executive
Role Overview
This is a senior-level Account Executive role focused on proactive sales and account management in cybersecurity. Day-to-day responsibilities include networking, cold calling, and selling to multiple contacts, including C-level executives, while managing relationships and providing consultative services. The role involves meeting sales goals, configuring solutions, participating in industry organizations, and using CRM tools like Salesforce to drive business growth.
Perks & Benefits
The position is virtual/remote, offering flexibility with regional travel required, likely allowing work from various locations. It includes opportunities for career growth through participation in industry events and vendor collaborations, with a focus on a consultative and client-centric culture. Benefits may include standard tech job perks like health insurance and professional development, though not explicitly stated.
Full Job Description
GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
The ideal Account Executive will pro-actively network, cold call, and sell to multiple contacts within an organization, including "C" levels. This person will manage and develop relationships with customers and provide a consultative sales approach that delivers the highest level of account management services. The Account Executive should share the goals and concerns of the client and understand the technology partner and products available to meet their goals and solve their challenges. This position is virtual/remote with regional travel required.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Consistently meet sales and profitability goals.
- Position, configure and quote product and service solutions to clients.
- Participate in industry organizations such as ISSA, ISACA, OWASP etc.
- Manage leads and opportunities through the companies Salesforce and other CRM tools.
- Accurately and consistently report sales forecasts and opportunity funnels
- Participate in creation, editing and closure of services proposals.
- Work with GuidePoint Security vendors to understand and position their technologies, understand and articulate their value proposition to clients.
- Participate in field marketing to generate interest and provide information to the client prospect community to include driving attendance to such events and activities
- Represent GuidePoint Consultants to clients and be able to articulate our areas of expertise
- Set proper expectations and maintaiPlease mention the word **KEEN** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.