HackerOne

Senior Account Executive, Enterprise, Southeast

HackerOne$125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in quota-carrying SaaS or technology sales, especially to enterprise clients.
  • Expertise in cybersecurity or related technology solutions.
  • Proven success in exceeding revenue targets in B2B environments.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce or similar CRM for managing complex sales.
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills for influencing stakeholders.
  • Ability to analyze customer insights and sales data for strategic decision-making.
  • Experience using AI tools to enhance sales processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own the complete sales cycle from prospecting to closing, achieving designated revenue targets.
  • Create and implement strategic account plans to nurture customer relationships and identify growth opportunities.
  • Utilize AI-driven tools to streamline sales activities and enhance productivity.
  • Employ data analysis to make informed decisions and improve sales strategies.
  • Understand and address client security challenges, providing tailored solutions that deliver business value.
  • Adapt quickly to changing market conditions and customer needs while maintaining focus on execution.
  • Collaborate with various departments to ensure customer satisfaction and maximize value.

Benefits

  • Health insurance including medical, vision, and dental options.
  • Equity stock options for long-term investment.
  • Retirement plan contributions.
  • Unlimited paid time off and paid public holidays.
  • Paid parental leave including maternity leave.
  • Various leaves of absence including caregiver leave.
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program services.
Full Job Description
Senior Account Executive, Enterprise

Remote Location: Southeast US

Position Summary

As a Senior Account Executive at HackerOne, you will play a critical role in expanding our business by helping organizations modernize their security programs through the industry's leading AI-powered offensive security platform. You will own strategic customer relationships from prospecting through close while partnering across Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, and Sales Engineering to deliver exceptional customer outcomes. Your expertise in enterprise sales and cybersecurity will directly contribute to HackerOne's growth by helping customers reduce risk and build resilience through innovative security solutions.

What You Will Do

Success in the Senior Account Executive role will be accomplished by delivering on the responsibilities below in alignment with the Values and Principles that define how we work at HackerOne.
  • Own the full sales cycle from prospecting through negotiation and close, consistently achieving or exceeding revenue targets within your assigned territory.
  • Develop and execute strategic account plans to expand existing customer relationships, identify new business opportunities, and drive long-term revenue growth.
  • Apply AI Native by leveraging AI-powered tools and automation to improve prospecting, account planning, customer engagement, forecasting, and sales productivity.
  • Demonstrate Data-Driven Decision Making by using pipeline analytics, customer insights, and sales performance metrics to prioritize opportunities, improve forecast accuracy, and optimize territory strategy.
  • Practice First Principles Problem Solving by deeply understanding customer business and security challenges, identifying root causes, and delivering tailored cybersecurity solutions that create measurable business value.
  • Demonstrate Change Agility by adapting quickly to evolving customer priorities, market conditions, product innovation, and competitive dynamics while maintaining consistent execution.
  • Partner closely with Marketing, Product Management, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Channel Partners to deliver an exceptional customer experience and maximize long-term customer value.
  • Share knowledge and best practices with teammates, contributing to a collaborative, high-performing sales organization while continuing to raise the overall performance of the team.


Minimum Qualifications
  • 6+ years of quota-carrying experience selling SaaS or technology solutions, including experience selling to enterprise organizations and technical decision-makers.
  • Experience selling cybersecurity, application security, developer security, or related technology solutions.
  • Proven track record of consistently achieving or exceeding revenue targets in a complex B2B sales environment.
  • Experience managing complex sales opportunities using Salesforce or a comparable CRM platform.
  • Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to use customer insights and sales data to prioritize opportunities, guide decision-making, and improve business outcomes.
  • Experience leveraging AI-powered tools to improve sales workflows, customer engagement, forecasting, or territory planning.
  • Ability to simplify complex customer challenges and develop consultative, outcome-focused solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience selling through channel partners and strategic alliance ecosystems.
  • Experience with Force Management and/or Command of the Message sales methodologies.
  • Experience selling Application Security, Developer Security, Offensive Security, or DevSecOps solutions.
  • Experience identifying and executing complex enterprise account expansion opportunities.


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Job Benefits:
  • Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance*
  • Equity stock options
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO
  • Paid maternity and parental leave
  • Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
  • Employee Assistance Program

*Eligibility may differ by country

We're committed to building a global team! For certain roles outside the United States, India, the U.K., and the Netherlands, we partner with Remote.com as our Employer of Record (EOR).

Visa/work permit sponsorship is not available.

Employment at HackerOne is contingent on a background check.

About HackerOne

HackerOne is a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers. The company was founded in 2012 by Michiel Prins and Jobert Abma and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. HackerOne has over 2,000 customers, including Airbnb, GitHub, Shopify, Spotify, and the U.S. Department of Defense. The company has raised over $110 million in funding from investors such as Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, and Dragoneer Investment Group.
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Size
500 employees
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Founded
2012

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