Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

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Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

• Motivate and manage Inside Sales leaders and reps to drive pipeline development and revenues through sales efforts leveraging the partner network
• Provide insight and influence on the overall strategy for Cortex Cloud Sales
• Work closely with Inside Sales leaders to drive professional development strategy for reps
• Coordinate, direct and monitor the outbound efforts of assigned Inside Sales and Sales Development reps by tracking and reporting weekly activities
• Collaborate with Regional, Theater and Global Sales management as well as other key leaders to identify strategies to achieve sales goals and uncover new, high value opportunities
• Provide accurate, ongoing reporting through the continuous update and maintenance of necessary reports in Salesforce.com
• Work closely with operations and analytics to provide forward and rear views on the business

Your Experience

• 5+ years sales experience with at least 3 years in a sales leadership role.
• Experience in the enterprise sales environment required – experience in a transactional sales environment welcomed as well
• Proven consistent achievement of goals through the leadership and motivation of a team
• Experience hiring, developing and retaining talent
• Exceptional command of enterprise sales methodology and the ability to coach to it
• Excellent communication and influence skills and the ability to build cross-functional relationships
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work on many projects concurrently
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals with a serious work ethic are required
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and proficient Salesforce.com skills
• As a leader, must be able to sprint and run the marathon

The Team

Our Cortex Cloud Sales team members work hand in hand with large organizations around the world to keep their environments protected. We educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients in their journey to security.

As part of our Sales team, you are empowered with unmatched systems and tools, constantly updated research and sales libraries, and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks who isn’t committed to your success — everyone pitches in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our Sales team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredibly complex cyberthreats.

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Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $306000/YR - $357000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The Role & The Team:

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The Account Executive primarily is a hunter sales role focused on selling Druva’s Data Center solutions to new prospects and existing customer accounts within a defined sales territory. The ideal candidate should be highly motivated, a self-starter, detail oriented, process driven and consultative in your sales approach. You should have a consistent track record of success in achieving new customer objectives selling directly through partners and exceeding revenue targets. In addition, you should be comfortable selling a solution and technologies within a SaaS, startup environment to IT contacts at a variety of levels within an organization. Sales responsibilities include territory / pipeline management, opportunity identification, analyzing IT backup, access and collaboration requirements for mid-market enterprise clients, leading demonstrations, presentations and providing rapid response along with the Solutions Engineer to outstanding technical questions to ensure optimal customer support and service in the sales process.

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Company Overview:

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Druva, the autonomous data security company, puts data security on autopilot with a 100% SaaS, fully managed platform to secure and recover data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud ensures the availability, confidentiality, and fidelity of data - providing customers with autonomous protection, rapid incident response, and guaranteed data recovery. The company is trusted by its more than 6,000 customers, including 65 of the Fortune 500, to defend business data in today’s ever-connected world. Amidst a rapidly evolving security landscape, Druva offers a $10 million Data Resiliency Guarantee ensuring customer data is protected and secured against every cyber threat. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and Facebook.

• Focus on increasing market share for Druva’s products through prospecting to accounts within assigned region
• Leverage MEDDPICC to drive visibility and communicate what you need from the business to win
• Plan, coordinate and deliver web-based and onsite product demos
• Convert prospects into sales by differentiating from the competition
• Work with System Engineers to prepare account strategies and plans
• Partner with the channel to drive incremental revenue
• Prepare activity and forecast reports as requested and prepare and participate in QBR’s
• Prepare and execute a thorough business plan
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Druva’s competitive positioning in the marketplace
• Meet or exceed assigned yearly revenue quota

Required Qualifications:

• College Degree
• 8+ years of sales experience in enterprise software sales (Backup or SaaS experience a plus). 12 + years of sales overall.
• Demonstrate success within a small company environment: We will want to see strong and consistent earnings background
• Excellent understanding of the sales process, and the ability to develop and execute a successful sales campaign
• Possess a strong network, both with end-users and VARs local to the region
• Driven, highly motivated to succeed in environments that may lack process
• Excellent organizational skills and strong technical acumen
• Backup experience is a requirement, security experience is a strong plus

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Preferred Qualifications: NA

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $241,000 and $312,667/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized, non-discriminatory factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, and equity. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health and wellness benefits, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

About Us

SentinelOne is defining the future of cybersecurity through our XDR platform that automatically prevents, detects, and responds to threats in real-time. Singularity XDR ingests data and leverages our patented AI models to deliver autonomous protection. With SentinelOne, organizations gain full transparency into everything happening across the network at machine speed – to defeat every attack, at every stage of the threat lifecycle.

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We are a values-driven team where names are known, results are rewarded, and friendships are formed. Trust, accountability, relentlessness, ingenuity, and OneSentinel define the pillars of our collaborative and unified global culture. We're looking for people that will drive team success and collaboration across SentinelOne. If you’re enthusiastic about innovative approaches to problem-solving, we would love to speak with you about joining our team!

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What are we looking for?

As an Enterprise Account Executive covering regional accounts, you will be tasked with building out key strategic partnership with the Value added resellers as well as Key Alliance partners, and managed service partners to help drive pipeline and ultimately closed won revenue. You will work closely with the marketing and product teams to design and implement successful Lead Generation and Go-to-Market campaigns, and drive overall sales excellence in a competitive endpoint security market.

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Ideal candidates will have prior experience selling Endpoint security based products (such as malware/exploit prevention, anti-virus, whitelisting as well as advanced data loss protection products).

• Run a sophisticated sales process from prospecting to closure in collaboration across the organization
• Partner with our channel team to drive both net-new and recurring revenue
• Partner with channel managers to build pipeline and grow revenue for the assigned territory
• Be an influential partner for customers within the cybersecurity industry and become an expert of SentinelOne products
• Stay well educated and informed about SentinelOne's competitive landscape and how to sell the value of our solutions and competitive differentiation
• Prepare and provide accurate forecasts to management on a weekly basis
• Consistently meet, or exceed sales quotas

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of previous experience selling to Enterprise accounts, ideally in a MEDDPICC, business-to-business SaaS environment
• 5+ years of above-quota sales experience, preferably as a Sales Executive/Manager
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both internally and externally; ability to engage with a variety of technical and business leaders
• Experience closing deals with an average deal size of $500k+
• Passionate about sales, the cybersecurity industry, and technology
• Experience building new pipeline of customers while fostering relationships with existing customers
• Deep understanding of the cybersecurity solutions sought by Enterprise customers, CISO and other C-Suite Officers
• Ability to identify and articulate competitive differentiation and customer value proposition
• Superb organizational and reporting skills, Salesforce experience preferred
• Leadership skills that drive results - Fostering an ecosystem of people including sales engineers, channel, marketing, executive sponsors, immediate management, procurement, etc. to effectively advance enterprise sales campaigns to close
• "Whatever it takes" attitude and drive to deliver above-quota performance
• Self-motivated, constant learner, and ability to receive feedback
• Experience working with channel and alliance partners and a strong understanding of a channel-centric GTM approaches
• Receptive to feedback and eager to learn
• May require extensive travel

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a hyper-growth environment

Why us?

You will work on real-world problems and make an impact by protecting our customers from cyber threats. You will be joining a cutting-edge project and will be able to influence the architecture, design, and structure of our core platform. You will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very BEST in the industry.

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• Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, and Dependent FSA
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Company Assigned Holidays
• Paid Sick Time
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Numerous company-sponsored events including regular happy hours and team building events

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This U.S. role has a base pay range plus commissions that will vary based on the location of the candidate. For some locations, a different pay range may apply. If so, this range will be provided to you during the recruiting process. You can also reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

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Base Salary Range

$124,000—$170,500 USD

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SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.