Enterprise Sales Strategic Account Executive (Southwest Region)

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night.

Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that secure human and machine identities for the world’s largest brands. Sectigo’s automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

“When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind.”

How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you’d like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we’d like to talk to you.

We are looking for a talented Strategic Account Executive to join our growing global team at Sectigo in Q1 2026! 

The Enterprise Sales Strategic Account Executive engages and manages Sectigo’s network of existing and prospective strategic accounts. This individual achieves assigned sales quotas for the overall sales strategies of a major geographic area by developing a pipeline of opportunities throughout the assigned territory, identifying, engaging, managing, and closing opportunities in fortune 1000 accounts while developing and working with Value Added Resellers. 

This is a full-time, remote, and individual contributor position, reporting to our Vice President, Enterprise Sales.  The ideal candidate should be based out of southwestern part of the U.S, with Preference to the Los Angeles or San Francisco areas.

Here are the core functions, responsibilities, and expectations for this role: 

• Capture net new accounts as well as retaining and growing business in existing accounts.  
• Develop sales strategies, territory plans and build pipelines.  
• Lead negotiations, coordinate a complex decision-making process, overcome obstacles and objections to closure.  
• Meet or exceed sales quota and revenue goals.  
• Create and update a dynamic territory plan, highlighting regional targets, key targets, vertical opportunities, marketing efforts and channel partner strategies.  
• Assume full responsibility for accurate sales forecasting by demonstrating in-depth knowledge of sales cycles from initial contact through the procurement process.  
• Prepare formal proposals and presentations to all levels of the organization.  
• Maintain thorough knowledge of Sectigo products as well as up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and technical developments that affect target markets.  
• Work with existing partners to create new opportunities, provide sales training, complete account mapping and close business at or above quarterly sales goal quotas and objectives.  
• Provide feedback from external markets to Marketing and Product Management Team.  
• Instruct and manage, provide data and referrals for inside team for cold calling and other direct marketing approaches, prospects for their pipeline.  
• Maintain a CRM along with other required sales updates.  
• Provide weekly report to manager, measuring daily performance of sales activities and assessing against goals.  
• Work closely with other Sales Executives, Sales Engineers, Product Management, Support Representatives, Sales Director, and SVP.  
• Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience is strongly recommended. 

Experience:

• Minimum of 6+ years of direct sales experience is required.  
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience selling cybersecurity solutions is strongly recommended.   
• Prior experience in consultative and solution selling is required. 
• 7+ years prior work experience in the cybersecurity space, IAM, MDR, or similar in a business development function is strongly preferred. 
• Current and/or prior experience working with Fortune 1000 accounrs and logos is strongly receommended. 
• Demonstrated success working with channel partners (Value Added Resellers), including building partnerships and leveraging co-selling strategies.  
• Familiarity with sales engagement tools like Salesforce, Clari, SalesLoft, ZoomInfo for tracking and managing sales activities.  
• Experience with formal sales training (e.g., solution selling, territory planning, communication skills). 

Ability and availability to travel:    

• Must be able to travel more than 50% of the time to the assigned regions and/or territories.  

Ideal Candidate Profiles, Talents, and Desired Qualifications:

1. Cybersecurity and Device Management with Automation and Orchestration Skills: 

• Experience with tools and technologies that support automated certificate lifecycle management, including integration with IAM and IGA platforms, is preferred. 
• Familiarity with automation platforms and practices that streamline device management tasks, especially in environments with complex security needs.

2. Sales Experience & Execution:

• Consultative Sales Approach: Apply a consultative, solution-based sales strategy, deeply understanding customer needs and effectively positioning Sectigo’s products to address cybersecurity and device management challenges. 
• Product Knowledge & Technical Engagement: Leverage in-depth technical knowledge of cybersecurity, IAM, and endpoint management products to engage with technical decision-makers on the customer side. 
• Strategic Vision & Market Awareness: Align sales efforts with Sectigo’s long-term objectives, staying ahead of market trends and continuously adapting strategies to meet evolving customer needs and competitive pressures.

3. Collaboration & Communication 

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, marketing, and engineering teams to ensure product offerings align with customer needs and market demands. 
• Strong Communication Skills: Demonstrate exceptional communication abilities, simplifying complex technical concepts for both customers and internal stakeholders. 
• Customer Relationship Building: Develop long-lasting relationships with customers, fostering trust and ensuring satisfaction while meeting sales targets.

4. Personal Attributes 

• Team-Oriented: Strong collaborator with the ability to thrive in an overlay role, influencing teams across the organization without direct authority. 
• Results-Driven: Self-motivated with a focus on achieving and exceeding sales goals, demonstrating perseverance and resilience in the face of challenges. 
• Adaptable & Agile: Ability to quickly adjust to new products, market conditions, and customer needs, working effectively in a fast-paced environment. 
• Athlete’s mentality: individuals with a background in competitive team environments are strongly encouraged, as they tend to possess the resilience, adaptability, and teamwork skills that contribute to high sales performance.
• Highly motivated “hunter” mentality with exceptional processing skills for prospecting, cold calling, identifying potential leads, overcoming objections, maintaining high margins, and closing deals. 
• Proven track record of consistent quota over-achievement and successfully engaging customer primes. 
• Enterprise experience with Fortune 500s + companies. 
• Strong relationship-building skills, particularly with channel partners and C-level executives. 
• Customer-focused mindset with excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills (written and verbal). 
• Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable in dynamic, process-building environments. 
• High energy, driven, and goal-oriented with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. 
• Willingness to travel more than 50% within the territory or region as needed. 
• Ability to deliver a strong sales presentation.

**Please be advised that the compensation hiring range indicated herein is provided solely as a good-faith estimate of expected base compensation and commission for the position. The actual compensation offered will be determined at the time of hire and is contingent upon multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and results of assessments conducted during the hiring process.

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

Global team. Global reach. Global impact.

At Sectigo, we believe doing good is good business. Our strength and our success come from our team of passionate, engaged individuals who make a difference, both locally and globally. Our commitment to engagement is rooted in an unconditionally inclusive workforce, embodying our unique perspectives, heritages, and backgrounds, all as diverse as the experiences of each Sectigo employee. Importantly, we strive to be recognized not only as the CLM leader but also for our intentional efforts to promote employees into the roles that most challenge and excite them, into experiences that allow them to grow their interests as we grow the business. We are committed to bringing a little bit of fun and a whole lot of happiness into everything we do so that our work – and our team members – reflect the positive outcomes we deliver to our customers every day.