Strategic Account Manager, AT&T

Check Point Software Technologies

• $120K — $145K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in account management or enterprise sales, preferably with telecommunications or technology firms.
  • Direct experience selling to AT&T or similar Fortune 500 companies.
  • Deep understanding of enterprise cybersecurity purchasing and deployment processes.
  • Proven success in growing strategic accounts and generating new business.
  • Experience with enterprise channel partners and technology ecosystem partners.
  • Strong relationship-building skills with executives across various departments.
  • Knowledge of AI's impact on cybersecurity and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow the strategic AT&T account, focusing on executive relationships and revenue growth.
  • Lead complex enterprise sales from initial engagement to closing.
  • Identify and develop new business opportunities within AT&T.
  • Build strong relationships with executives across multiple AT&T departments.
  • Drive account growth by expanding existing deployments and increasing solution adoption.
  • Develop relationships with strategic channel partners and resellers.
  • Support internal teams through account planning and customer presentations.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a leading cybersecurity portfolio.
  • Engagement with high-level executives in a Fortune 500 environment.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies like AI and Zero Trust.
  • Potential for professional growth in a dynamic, fast-paced industry.
  • Travel opportunities to engage with customers and partners.
Full Job Description
Job Description
  • Responsible for managing and growing the strategic AT&T account, including executive relationships, end-user engagement, account coverage, and revenue growth across Check Point's cybersecurity portfolio.
  • Lead complex enterprise sales opportunities from initial engagement through qualification, solution alignment, negotiation, and close.
  • Find and develop new business opportunities within AT&T by identifying whitespace, expanding existing relationships, and introducing Check Point solutions across security, network, cloud, and emerging technology initiatives.
  • Build and maintain strong executive-level relationships across AT&T, including security, architecture, technology, network, product, mobility, sourcing, procurement, and business leadership.
  • Drive account growth by developing new opportunities, expanding existing deployments, and increasing adoption of Check Point's cybersecurity platform and solutions.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with strategic channel partners, resellers, system integrators, and other ecosystem partners supporting the AT&T account.
  • Identify opportunities involving emerging technologies, including cloud, SASE, Zero Trust, AI, and AI-enabled workloads, and connect these initiatives to AT&T's cybersecurity requirements.
  • Support strategic partners and internal teams through account planning, joint business development, customer presentations, executive briefings, and opportunity development.
  • Maintain accurate account plans, pipeline forecasts, opportunity strategies, and revenue projections for AT&T.
  • Operate effectively as a self-directed individual contributor, influencing cross-functional teams and resources without direct people-management responsibility.
  • Represent Check Point with executive presence, strong business judgment, and credibility in a highly complex, matrixed enterprise environment.
  • Travel as required to support AT&T customer and partner engagements, including customer meetings, executive briefings, business reviews, and industry events.


Qualifications
  • 8+ years of named account management, strategic account management, enterprise sales, or territory sales experience.
  • Direct experience selling into AT&T or a comparable Fortune 500 telecommunications or technology enterprise.
  • Strong understanding of how large enterprise organizations evaluate, purchase, deploy, and expand cybersecurity and technology solutions.
  • Background in selling cybersecurity, network security, cloud security, or Internet Protocol/network-related technologies.
  • Proven track record of successfully growing strategic enterprise accounts and generating new bookings.
  • Demonstrated success developing new business and expanding existing customer relationships across complex, multi-stakeholder organizations.
  • Experience working with enterprise channel partners, resellers, system integrators, and technology ecosystem partners.
  • Strong executive relationship-building skills with the ability to engage security, technology, architecture, network, product, procurement, and business leaders.
  • Experience managing complex enterprise sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders, technical requirements, procurement, legal, contracting, and executive sponsorship.
  • Knowledge of AI and its impact on enterprise cybersecurity, including generative AI, AI-enabled workloads, AI security, data protection, and emerging AI-related cyber risks.
  • Ability to identify and develop cybersecurity opportunities associated with AI, cloud transformation, Zero Trust, SASE, and other emerging technologies.
  • Must be a self-starter, hunter, strategic thinker, and strong closer with a consistent record of achieving or exceeding sales objectives.
  • Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, account planning, and executive engagement skills.
  • Position requires day-to-day and overnight travel as needed to support the AT&T account.

Highly Preferred Skills
  • Existing relationships within AT&T across security, technology, architecture, network, mobility, product, sourcing, or procurement organizations.
  • Experience selling enterprise cybersecurity platforms rather than individual point products.
  • Experience with one or more of the following:
    • Network security / firewalls
    • Cloud security
    • Email and collaboration security
    • Application security / WAF
    • SASE / Zero Trust
    • AI security
    • Exposure Management / Risk
  • Experience with strategic competitive displacement and expanding cybersecurity platform adoption across large enterprises.
  • Experience developing joint account strategies with channel and technology partners.
  • Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future.

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