Account Executive

Company Overview

Valimail is a fast growing, venture funded startup and the leader in Email Authentication as a Service. Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor at an important technology innovator and to help build a major business service category. We have built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — for the first time it makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). We’re committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem.

Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team, your team!

Position Overview

Valimail is seeking an Account Executive to help accelerate new logo acquisition. You will assist in Valimail's overall growth by strategically engaging and closing net-new customers across mid-to-large size markets.You have a chance to join a fast-growing, revenue-generating, venture-funded startup with name-brand customers as we build a meaningful security category.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the Sales Lifecycle, from lead to close, with companies from SMB to Enterprise
• Identify and pursue new target accounts, maintain a high volume of revenue driving activity
• Utilize solution and value-selling techniques along with overcoming objections to effectively guide sales processes to close
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal team like Product, Marketing, Engineering, Customer Success
• Strategically map out and break into account in mid-market companies; sized between 250 - 10,000 employees
• Keep CRM system up to date with customer information, forecasts, and pipeline data so we can learn more about our business and our sales process
• Travel approximately once a month

About You

• 5+ years direct Sales experience in SaaS
• Prior experience strategically selling directly to CISOs, CTOs or other executives within the IT/Technology infrastructure
• Self-starter, responsible for your own territory with experience building out your own territory plan
• Identify compelling value propositions that address customer needs
• Experience using our tech stack: Outreach, Salesloft, Gong, SFDC, ZoomInfo
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate highly technical concepts to a technical audience

Bonus Points

• Cybersecurity or email security experience
• Sales training such as: MEDDIC, Command of the Message

Who We Are

Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company's full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest-growing DMARC solution with the largest global market share and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments. 

Valimail is an E-Verify Employer. For more information on E-Verify, review the posters here. 

Why Join Us?

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $75,000 - $90,000 and includes a variable target of $90,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan.  Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
• Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth
• Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
• Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work

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