Enterprise Account Executive - Mid West
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Opal Security
Austin, TX, US
Summary
Define and execute sales strategies to meet quotas while managing the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing. Collaborate with internal teams including Sales Engineering, Product, and Marketing to ensure customer needs are prioritized and sales assets are optimized.
Job Description
Description
At Opal, we’re building modern identity governance for the AI era—intelligent access management that empowers enterprises to move fast while staying secure. Our mission is to bring clarity, control, and confidence to complex enterprise environments, helping teams govern access without slowing down innovation.
Your responsibilities
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Define and execute sales strategies to meet and exceed assigned quota
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Manage the full sales cycle through prospecting, qualifying, managing POVs, and closing opportunities
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Partner with your CSM and SE counterparts to build strong partnerships, deliver continuous value, identity upsell opportunities, and ensure timely renewals for our customers
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Acquire and maintain knowledge of the access management industry and emerging competitive landscape
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Collaborate with the GTM team on sales best practices, key learnings of the industry and trends, and iterations of messaging and sales assets for pipeline generation and management
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Be a voice for the customer/prospect with internal teams including Sales Engineering/POV team, Product and Marketing to ensure appropriate prioritization
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Document your results and maintain accurate data across all sales systems
Our ideal candidate
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5+ years of quota-carrying field sales experience in a fast-paced and competitive market
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Consistent track record of landing net new logos
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Strong track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas
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Experience selling complex enterprise software, security and infrastructure management preferred
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Strong executive presence, listening skills, and experience selling into the C-suite
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Curious and highly driven self-starter with start-up experience
Majority of the Opal team members work together in our San Francisco office but this role is remote. Visits to hang with the team in office will be welcome and encouraged :)
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds rarely apply unless they meet all the job criteria. We aren’t looking for someone who ticks every single box on a page; we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. If you think you’d be a great fit, then please get in touch to tell us about yourself. Opal is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
The best security and engineering teams use Opal, the AI-native access security platform, for real-time visibility, expressive policy-as-code, and direct control over every identity — from employees to service accounts to AI agents. Recognizing that access moves rapidly, touches everything, and changes constantly, our AI control plane is built for how identity works today and tomorrow. We are based in San Francisco, recently named to Notable Capital's Rising in Cyber 2026 list as selected by 150 leading CISOs, used by leading companies like Databricks, Notion, Cloudflare, Scale AI, CoreWeave, SpaceXAI, and Superhuman, and backed by Greylock, Battery Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI), and Cambium Capital.
Founded
2020
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
The best security and engineering teams use Opal, the AI-native access security platform, for real-time visibility, expressive policy-as-code, and direct control over every identity — from employees to service accounts to AI agents. Recognizing that access moves rapidly, touches everything, and changes constantly, our AI control plane is built for how identity works today and tomorrow. We are based in San Francisco, recently named to Notable Capital's Rising in Cyber 2026 list as selected by 150 leading CISOs, used by leading companies like Databricks, Notion, Cloudflare, Scale AI, CoreWeave, SpaceXAI, and Superhuman, and backed by Greylock, Battery Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investments (SVCI), and Cambium Capital.
Founded
2020
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
San Francisco, California