Account Executive (Mid-Market)

🇬🇧In-Person - London, United Kingdom£45K–£65K/yriJust now

Corporate Sales Enterprise Sales Business Development Account Management Cybersecurity Sales B2B Sales

Role Snapshot

Account Executive (Mid-Market) at KnowBe4 responsible for selling the KnowBe4 Platform, a digital workforce security solution trusted by 70,000+ organizations worldwide. This role involves driving revenue growth by securing new mid-market clients and expanding their security posture against advanced threats including social engineering and AI-related attacks.

Key Responsibilities: Develop and execute sales strategies to acquire mid-market clients, conduct product demonstrations and security assessments, and manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to close. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, identify customer needs, and provide customized solutions leveraging KnowBe4's attack simulation, training, and agent security capabilities.

Skills & Tools: Strong consultative selling and negotiation abilities with demonstrated success in B2B SaaS or cybersecurity sales. Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to non-technical decision-makers.

Qualifications: 3+ years of enterprise or mid-market SaaS sales experience, preferably in security, compliance, or risk management software. Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience with a track record of exceeding quota and managing complex sales cycles.

Location: In-Person - London, United Kingdom

Compensation: £45K–£65K/yr (estimated)

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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.

To learn more about our team and office culture in Leeds, England (UK), visit the following links.
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/york
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-York-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,12_IC3297365.htm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knowbe4/life/uk/

The Account Executive (Mid-Market) (International) position is responsible for identifying and acquiring new logos within the Mid-Market business segment to meet and exceed their monthly sales quota. This can be achieved by creating opportunities through various prospecting methods, following up on inbound leads, as well as reigniting open, outstanding customer opportunities.

Responsibilities:

Acquire Mid-Market-sized new logo accounts within assigned territory to meet and exceed monthly sales quota.
Build and maintain a pipeline of Mid-Market business opportunities by various prospecting methods, following lead cadence best practices, and conducting demos of our suite of products.
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 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.

Requirements:

2-3 years experience selling to Mid-Market sized businesses
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

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/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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