Account Executive - Cybersecurity Products & Services - REMOTE
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Binary Defense
Charleston, SC, US
Summary
The Account Executive will drive the acquisition of new customers by selling AI-powered security platforms and managed security services. They will collaborate with internal teams to develop solution strategies and maintain long-term relationships with clients.
Job Description
Description
Binary Defense is seeking a talented Account Executive with cyber services and product sales experience to grow an assigned territory. The priority is to acquire new customers/logos.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Managed Security Services and Product/Platform Sales
- Position and sell Binary Defense's AI-powered security platform and software offerings alongside managed security services as part of a comprehensive security strategy.
- Conduct discovery to identify opportunities where Binary Defense's Agentic AI capabilities can improve SOC efficiency, analyst productivity, security visibility, and customer outcomes.
- Deliver compelling demonstrations and business presentations highlighting the value of Binary Defense's technology platform, AI capabilities, and managed services.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Security Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing to develop solution strategies that address customer business and technical objectives.
- Drive adoption of software subscriptions, platform expansions, and cross-sell opportunities within new and existing customer accounts.
Solution Selling
- Develop business cases that articulate both operational and financial value, including efficiency gains, risk reduction, and measurable security outcomes.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of Binary Defense's product roadmap, AI capabilities, competitive landscape, and emerging cybersecurity trends.
Prospecting
- Identify, qualify, and set business opportunities via a variety of sources including phone/email/social media.
- Utilize strategic partnerships and clients as sources for recommendations and referrals.
- Research the needs of potential prospect companies and learning who makes purchasing decisions.
- Attend conferences, meetings, and industry/networking events
Conducting Business Meetings & Build Relationships
- Build long term, trusted relationships with current and potential clients.
- Consult with prospects and clients to understand their needs for our products and services.
- Present Binary Defense offerings to potential clients as aligned to their needs.
- Send detailed Follow-up emails recapping meeting, overview of solution, and actionable next steps.
Closing
- Understand process to close the deal within each organization including access to key decision makers.
- Develop negotiating strategies and positions.
- Communicate via follow-up email to document next steps through closing the deal including anticipated signature and kickoff dates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience selling cybersecurity software, SaaS, security platforms, MDR/XDR, SIEM, or related technology solutions is strongly preferred.
- Experience selling both recurring software subscriptions and managed services is highly desirable.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts—including AI, automation, and security operations—to both technical and executive audiences.
- Demonstrated consultative/value-selling experience focused on solving customer business challenges rather than transactional product sales.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
- Familiarity with modern SOC technologies, including SIEM, XDR, SOAR, MDR, threat detection and response, or AI-assisted security operations is preferred.
- Ability to effectively position Binary Defense's Agentic AI SOC platform as part of a broader cybersecurity strategy.
- Comfortable collaborating across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Alliances, and Customer Success organizations throughout the sales process.
About Binary Defense
Binary Defense is a leading Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, trusted by hundreds of organizations to protect what matters most. Our team of SOC analysts, threat hunters, detection engineers, and threat researchers work around the clock to deliver proactive, risk-focused security outcomes. We bring the attacker's mindset to defense, helping clients detect threats earlier, respond faster, and continuously improve their security posture.
For more information, visit our website, check out our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn.
Binary Defense offers competitive medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents, a 401k match which vests every payroll, a flexible and remote friendly work environment, as well as training opportunities to expand your skill set (to name a few!). If you’re interested in joining a growing team with great perks, we encourage you to apply!
Most security programs are built to check boxes.
We’re built to stop what actually matters.
Binary Defense is a Managed Detection and Response provider focused on one thing: helping organizations respond to real threats with speed, clarity, and confidence. Not theoretical coverage. Not inflated metrics. Real outcomes.
We start with how adversaries actually operate inside environments. Then we build detection, investigation, and response around that reality. Because when seconds matter, assumptions break.
At the center of our approach is NightBeacon, our AI-powered intelligence infrastructure embedded directly into the SOC. It accelerates analysis, surfaces what matters, and helps our analysts move at the pace modern threats demand. Not by replacing human expertise, but by strengthening it.
This is what it looks like when AI is applied with purpose. Faster investigations. Clearer decisions. Better outcomes.
Founded by experts including David Kennedy, Binary Defense was created to solve a problem that still exists today: organizations are overwhelmed with data, under-equipped to act, and left exposed when it counts.
We changed that by building a model where experienced defenders lead, and technology works in service of their decisions.
Our services include Managed Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Risk Protection, all designed to give organizations something most tools can’t:
The ability to understand what is happening and respond before it becomes something worse.
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Stow, Ohio
Most security programs are built to check boxes.
We’re built to stop what actually matters.
Binary Defense is a Managed Detection and Response provider focused on one thing: helping organizations respond to real threats with speed, clarity, and confidence. Not theoretical coverage. Not inflated metrics. Real outcomes.
We start with how adversaries actually operate inside environments. Then we build detection, investigation, and response around that reality. Because when seconds matter, assumptions break.
At the center of our approach is NightBeacon, our AI-powered intelligence infrastructure embedded directly into the SOC. It accelerates analysis, surfaces what matters, and helps our analysts move at the pace modern threats demand. Not by replacing human expertise, but by strengthening it.
This is what it looks like when AI is applied with purpose. Faster investigations. Clearer decisions. Better outcomes.
Founded by experts including David Kennedy, Binary Defense was created to solve a problem that still exists today: organizations are overwhelmed with data, under-equipped to act, and left exposed when it counts.
We changed that by building a model where experienced defenders lead, and technology works in service of their decisions.
Our services include Managed Detection and Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Risk Protection, all designed to give organizations something most tools can’t:
The ability to understand what is happening and respond before it becomes something worse.
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Stow, Ohio