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KnowBe4

Account Executive (ENT/Strategic)

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Clearwater, FL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Sales

🗓️ September 4th, 2025

Salesforce

Edtech.com's Summary

KnowBe4 is hiring an Account Executive (ENT/Strategic) to manage customer accounts and maximize sales opportunities by promoting and selling its security awareness training products to enterprise-sized businesses. The role involves identifying and closing new clients, maintaining a sales pipeline, and achieving or exceeding monthly sales targets.

Highlights
  • Manage and grow enterprise customer accounts by promoting KnowBe4 products and services
  • Identify, qualify, and close new business opportunities within targeted markets including reactivating lapsed accounts
  • Develop and maintain relationships with prospects and key decision makers through cold calling and networking
  • Maintain accurate sales records and forecast new business prospects
  • Use Salesforce and Gmail for sales operations and communication
  • Require 3 years of software sales experience to Small Medium Enterprises and familiarity with IT Security concepts
  • Bachelor's degree preferred; Network+ or Security+ certification is a plus
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, self-motivated with teamwork ability
  • Offers company-wide bonuses, referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition and certification reimbursements
  • Must work with minimum supervision and be stats-driven

Account Executive (ENT/Strategic) Full Description

About KnowBe4
KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is used by tens of thousands of organizations around the globe. KnowBe4 enables organizations to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering by helping them train employees to make smarter security decisions, every day.

Fortune has ranked us as a best place to work for women, for millennials, and in technology for four years in a row! We have been certified as a "Great Place To Work" in 8 countries, plus we've earned numerous other prestigious awards, including Glassdoor's Best Places To Work.

Our team values radical transparency, extreme ownership, and continuous professional development in a welcoming workplace that encourages all employees to be themselves. Whether working remotely or in-person, we strive to make every day fun and engaging; from team lunches to trivia competitions to local outings, there is always something exciting happening at KnowBe4.

Clearwater positions open to candidates located in greater Tampa Bay area.
The Account Executive (Enterprise/Strategic) position is responsible for managing the customer accounts they’re assigned and maximizing all sales opportunities within those accounts. More specifically, this position will be charged with promoting and selling KnowBe4’s products and services to enterprise sized businesses (organizations with 1501+ employees), with the objective to achieve and exceed monthly sales quota. This can be achieved by targeting new business as well as reactivating dark (lapsed) customer accounts.

Responsibilities:
  • Promote and sell KnowBe4’s range of products and services
  • Identify and close net new customers they’re assigned 
  • Build and maintain pipeline of potential customers by developing and managing relationships with prospects
  • Forecast new business prospects that result in successful client relationships and sales
  • Identify key decision makers while developing and qualifying new business opportunities within the targeted markets through cold calling, networking and high-level prospecting
  • Articulate the value proposition of KnowBe4’s products and help the customer understand how it will improve their business’s security awareness training (and security overall)
  • Achieve or exceed monthly quotas and/or targets 
  • Be well versed in KnowBe4’s product offerings and promote the products and services at trade shows as requested
  • Follow up on marketing leads to generate new sales opportunities and pipeline
  • Act strategically in offering or negotiating discounted pricing, in line with established policies and procedures
  • Maintain accurate and thorough records for customer calls, emails, notes, tasks, demos and other relevant information in compliance with the Administration Policy

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree a plus 
  • Proven track record in sales 
  • 3 years selling software to Small Medium Enterprise
  • Familiarity with standard concepts, practices and procedures within the IT Security Field
  • Experience with Salesforce and Gmail
  • Network or Security Plus preferred
  • Excellent verbal and written communications
  • Stats driven business professional
  • Motivated, energetic self-starter
  • Strong collaborative and teamwork skills
  • Must be able to work with minimum supervision

Our Fantastic Benefits
We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, certification completion bonuses, and a relaxed dress code - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits.
Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.
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