1PASSWORD

[Internal] Account Executive - Commercial, San Francisco/Bay Area

1PASSWORD • $82K — $115K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years experience selling to Fortune 1000 organizations or high-growth companies with 500+ employees.
  • Over $1M+ annual quota achievement, specifically in complex, multi-product sales.
  • Multiple years of elite sales recognition, such as President's Club or equivalent.
  • Proven success with enterprise platforms, emphasizing more than just transactional products.
  • Ability to demonstrate and maintain 2.5x pipeline coverage and effective account planning.

Responsibilities

  • Own and expand a strategic commercial territory with high-value prospects.
  • Forge new executive connections with CISOs, CIOs, and other senior technology stakeholders.
  • Identify whitespace and competitive displacement opportunities across various security domains.
  • Build and sustain the necessary pipeline and engagement levels to exceed annual quotas.
  • Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles while ensuring consensus among buying groups.

Benefits

  • Immediate participation in health, dental, and 401k benefits program.
  • Access to generous paid time off and equity grants.
  • Active involvement in incentive programs.
Full Job Description
As a Commercial Account Executive, you will own a focused territory of strategic target accounts and existing customers with [redacted] employees, with an emphasis on Fortune 1000 and high growth organizations. Your mandate is to create new executive relationships, build qualified pipeline, win complex, six-figure, multi-product, platform opportunities, and expand 1Password's strategic footprint across an existing book of business. This is not a transactional or single-product sales role. You will lead an enterprise-wide security conversation, starting with a customer's most urgent problem and building the strategic case for Unified Access across humans, AI agents, and machines. You will engage and multi-thread with CISOs, CIOs, IT and security leaders, IAM teams, DevOps and platform teams, engineering leaders, security architects, finance, procurement, and other executive stakeholders. This is a remote, field-based opportunity. Candidates must be based in San Francisco/Bay Area and should expect regular in-person customer meetings, industry events, and travel throughout the territory, about 30-40%. How we're using AI today Across GTM, we're transforming the way we work with AI. We expect every seller, CSM, and team member to become a power user, using it daily to work smarter and move faster. AI is already embedded in how we operate - from real-time coaching that sharpens how we sell and interact with customers, to surfacing insights that help us anticipate needs - creating more time for meaningful customer engagement. If you're excited to reshape how you think, make decisions, and drive growth with AI, you'll feel right at home here. Note: All go-to market roles will have an in-person onboarding in Toronto. What we're looking for: 4+ years experience selling to Fortune 1000 organizations and high growth companies spanning 500+ employees, with 1+ year of substantial cybersecurity sales experience. A consistent record of exceeding $1M+ annual quotas, including experience carrying quotas in the $1M-2M range and closing complex, multi-product opportunities. Multiple years of elite sales performance and company recognition, such as President's Club or equivalent top-performer awards. Demonstrated success selling enterprise platforms and multi-product solutions, and not just transactional or stand-alone point products. Clear methodology for maintaining 2.5x pipeline coverage at all times through territory tiering, account planning, outreach cadence, and cold calling efforts. Experience selling identity, Zero Trust, cloud security, endpoint security, privileged access, developer security, or adjacent cybersecurity platforms. Proven ability to engage IAM, IT security, DevOps, platform engineering, and engineering leaders and connect their technical priorities to an executive business case. A record of winning net-new strategic logos and expanding existing accounts through cross-sell, upsell, and multi-year platform agreements. Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate credibly with C-suite leaders and deeply technical audiences. Rigorous account planning, pipeline creation, opportunity management, forecasting, and negotiation skills. Bonus points for: You lead with curiosity and strong discovery, uncovering the broader security and business problem rather than stopping at the initial product request. You create a compelling platform narrative while keeping the customer's priorities, maturity, and path to value at the center. You combine strategic thinking with operating rigor; your account plans, pipeline, forecasts, and close plans are current, specific, and dependable. You are resilient, accountable, collaborative, and motivated by ambitious targets and complex opportunities. You hunt daily for new opportunities and consistently hit pipeline generation targets. You leverage AI daily to expedite your administrative work and identify strategic opportunities across your book. You are coachable, apply feedback quickly, and continuously improve your craft. You thrive in a remote, field-based environment and prioritize meaningful in-person customer engagement. What you can expect: Own and grow a strategic commercial territory Develop and execute sophisticated account and territory plans for a focused portfolio of high-value prospects and customers. Create new executive relationships with CISOs, CIOs, identity leaders, security architects, and other senior technology buyers to accelerate access and credibility. Identify whitespace, competitive displacement opportunities, and compelling events across identity security, AI adoption, privileged access, SaaS governance, developer workflows, and device security. Build and maintain the pipeline coverage, account engagement, and deal velocity required to consistently achieve or exceed a significant annual quota. Cultivate relationships in the channel through innovative account mapping techniques and in-person co-selling opportunities. Sell the full platform story Elevate conversations from an individual point-product need to a strategic Unified Access vision spanning people, AI agents, and machines. Connect 1Password's capabilities to measurable outcomes, including reducing credential and access risk, eliminating standing privilege, governing SaaS and shadow AI, protecting developer and machine workflows, strengthening device trust, and improving auditability. Land with the customer's most urgent use case, then build an executive-backed roadmap for adoption and expansion across Enterprise Password Manager, SaaS Manager, Credential Broker, Device Trust, and Privileged Access. Translate complex identity, access, cloud, endpoint, developer, and AI-security concepts into clear business value for executive and deeply technical audiences. Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles Orchestrate 4-6 month sales cycles involving security, IAM, IT, DevOps, platform engineering, application engineering, finance, legal, procurement, and executive sponsors. Build consensus across large buying groups and establish clear business, technical, economic, and decision criteria. Lead executive presentations, discovery sessions, workshops, business-value assessments, commercial negotiations, and close plans. Create and maintain mutual action plans and apply MEDDPPICC or a comparable enterprise qualification methodology with discipline. Structure and negotiate complex, multi-year, multi-product agreements, org-wide solutions with material ARR and platform expansion potential. Expand strategic customer relationships Build broad, durable relationships throughout customer organizations rather than relying on a single champion. Uncover business and security priorities beyond the initial use case and turn them into platform expansion opportunities. Partner with Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, product specialists, and services teams to create adoption and expansion plans tied to measurable outcomes. Operate as one team Collaborate closely with BDR, Solutions Engineering, Channels, Alliances, Customer Success, Onboarding, Product, Marketing, Legal, and Deal Desk. Co-sell with strategic partners, cloud alliances, channel teams, and systems integrators where they can expand reach or accelerate a decision. Represent 1Password at executive briefings, customer meetings, trade shows, and industry events. Maintain accurate opportunity data, next steps, forecasts, and account plans in Salesforce. Use AI and modern selling tools thoughtfully to improve research, preparation, coaching, and execution while creating more time for customer engagement. How you work: Knowledge of identity and access management, privileged access management, credential security, machine identities, agentic AI security, SaaS governance, device trust, or secrets management. Experience competing and winning against major enterprise identity and cybersecurity platform providers. Proficiency with MEDDPPICC, Salesforce, Slack, Zoom, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, and AI-enabled sales tools. Demonstrated ownership of full cycle sales from initial cold outbound to close to expansion. Experience developing opportunities through channel partners, cloud alliances, systems integrators, or technology partners. USA-based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $82,000 USD and $115,000 USD, and is commission-eligible. This role is also immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), utilization of our generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in our incentive programs. At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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