Palo Alto Networks

Account Manager

Palo Alto Networks • $272K — $374K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of relevant SaaS sales experience
  • Proven success in selling complex technical solutions to Enterprise customers
  • Demonstrated ability to close new business deals
  • Consistent track record of meeting sales quotas
  • Experience in technical SaaS environments (monitoring or observability preferred)
  • Strong relationship-building skills
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills

Responsibilities

  • Master target markets and develop positioning strategies for Chronosphere products
  • Proactively prospect and develop sales pipelines in collaboration with BDR
  • Create effective technical selling strategies with SE, including custom demos
  • Achieve and exceed sales targets through closing deals
  • Build effective customer relationships to uncover growth opportunities
  • Transition new customers smoothly to the Customer Success team
  • Provide valuable feedback to marketing and product teams based on customer insights

Benefits

  • Employee benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Participation in equity programs
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
  • Travel support for required company events
Full Job Description
Job Summary

About the team

Chronosphere, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world's most innovative brands, including DoorDash, Affirm, and Zillow.

About the role

Chronosphere is looking for a hardworking, motivated individual with a closer mentality to join our sales team as an Enterprise Account Executive. You will be responsible for finding, managing and closing new business for both large Enterprises and growing tech companies.

You Will
  • Master Chronosphere's target market, business drivers and strategies so that you can develop, intrigue, and position Chronosphere products as a value add solution with potential customers.
  • Work in sync with a BDR to proactively prospect, identify, qualify and develop a sales pipeline.
  • Work closely with an SE to create a technical selling strategy, including custom demos and effective pilots.
  • Close business to meet and exceed bookings objectives.
  • Build strong and effective relationships, resulting in growth opportunities.
  • Effectively transition customers to the CSE team.
  • Work closely with the Customer Success team to support and grow accounts after close.
  • Provide feedback to the marketing and product organization on customer insights, feature request and content strategy.


Qualifications

You have
  • 4+ years of relevant SaaS selling experience
  • Proven success selling a complex technical solution to Enterprise customers
  • Experience closing new logos
  • Proven track record consistently meeting quota quarter over quarter
  • Experience at a technical SaaS company (ideally in the monitoring, observability, cloud or infrastructure tech space)
  • A passion for building relationships and driving business
  • A growth mentality with the instinct to be creative
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal & written skills
  • Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities, while maintaining a high sense of urgency
  • Organizational skills and a results-oriented, self-starter attitude


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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$272,000.00 - $374,000.00/yr

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Motor-Vehicle Requirement: This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver's license.

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
NASDAQ

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