Regional Account Executive (Enterprise)
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Regional Account Executive (Enterprise) at KnowBe4 responsible for driving sales and revenue growth for enterprise clients in the Cape Town region. The role involves selling the KnowBe4 Platform's security solutions including attack simulation, training, and AI agent security to large organizations.
Job Description
KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.
Please submit your resume in English.
To learn more about our team and office culture in Cape Town, South Africa visit the following links.
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/cape-town
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-Cape-Town-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,17_IC2653748.htm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knowbe4/life/southafrica/
The Regional Account Executive (ENT) (International) position is responsible for acquiring new logos and upselling our existing Enterprise-sized customer accounts with the goal of maximizing all revenue opportunities to exceed their monthly sales quota. This can be achieved by creating opportunities through various prospecting methods, following up on inbound leads, reigniting open, outstanding customer opportunities, and motivating our existing customers to purchase additional products, increase subscription levels and/or add on additional seats due to account growth.
Responsibilities:
- Acquire Enterprise-sized accounts within assigned territory to meet and exceed monthly new logo sales quota.
- Promote and sell KnowBe4’s range of products to existing customers to meet and exceed Enterprise monthly cross sale and expansion sales quota.
- Build and maintain a pipeline of Enterprise opportunities by various prospecting methods, following lead cadence best practices and conducting demos of our suite of products.
- Follow up on new and existing customer SDR, marketing and channel leads to generate revenue opportunities and pipeline.
- Articulate the value proposition of KnowBe4’s full suite of products and educate the customer how each product will improve their business’s human firewall.
- Understand an organization’s buying needs, key decision makers, potential roadblocks and next steps to shorten sales cycles and acquire a high volume of new logo and upselling existing customer accounts.
- Act strategically in offering subscription levels, multi-year deals and/or negotiating discounted pricing to increase ARR
- Maintain accurate and thorough records of daily sales statistics via Salesforce.
- Collaborate with the assigned Channel sales representative to seamlessly close new logos through our Partner business channels.
- Collaborate with the assigned Customer Success Managers and Renewal Specialists to understand the account’s organizational structure, gaps in cybersecurity and ultimately increase their commitment and use of the KnowBe4 Product Suite.
- Support in the renewal process where there is an opportunity to grow the account.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience selling to Enterprise-sized businesses, required
- Bachelor Degree or higher education equivalent, desirable
- Familiarity with standard concepts, practices and procedures within the IT, Security or Cybersecurity industry, desirable
- Experience with Salesforce, a plus
- Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
- Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
- Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Stats driven business professional
- Motivated, energetic self-starter
- Strong collaborative and teamwork skills
- Must be able to work with minimum supervision
Our Fantastic Benefits
Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.
Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.
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