Enterprise Account Executive - Federal

Department: Sales

Location: U.S. Remote

Compensation: $260K – $326K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If youre ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
 

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

Position Summary

This remote position requires a motivated self-starter who will be responsible for all net new sales into the Intelligence Community agency accounts. Because the work happens where the mission happens, this role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with a CI or full-scope polygraph.

Based in a specific geographic area, the candidate may be required to travel approximately 30-40% throughout the assigned territory to visit customers, attend trade shows or field events, and for internal meetings such as sales kick-offs or quarterly business reviews.

With our strong promote-from-within philosophy, successful performance in this role will provide career advancement opportunities to those seeking to take their sales careers to the next level.

What Youll Do:

• Create and personalize a territory plan for the assigned territory and agencies, built around the federal fiscal year and appropriations cycles.

• Prospect to and create contacts across assigned agencies, their components, and program offices and effectively communicate back to Delinea leadership what is needed to continue to support this community.

• Proactively pursue existing leads who have expressed interest in our technology.

• Collaborate with and engage the right Delinea technical experts to provide an accurate and compelling story on our products’ strengths and capabilities to win deals.

• Consistently meet/exceed sales targets.

• Maintain an accurate forecast of sales pipeline, commit and best case.

• Cultivate and manage relationships with federal resellers, distributors, and systems integrators, and transact through GSA MAS, SEWP, and agency-specific contract vehicles.

• Leverage Delinea’s executives, and their networks, to gain access to prospective clients.

• Never stop learning! Continue to hone your craft and build your expertise in Cybersecurity.

What Youll Bring:

• 5+ years as an enterprise software sales executive, including direct experience selling into U.S. Federal agencies.

• This role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with a CI or full-scope polygraph.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university preferred or equivalent work experience.

• Working knowledge of federal procurement processes for these agencies that include but are not limited to contract vehicles, FedRAMP authorization levels, ATO timelines, and the federal zero-trust mandate under OMB M-22-09.

• Experience cultivating and controlling complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders within the agencies.

• Track record of success in identifying, cultivating and closing six figure+ transactions.

• Ability to conduct both executive level presentations and high-level technical presentations.

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated ability to build and land a differentiated value proposition.

Bonus if you have:

• An established book of business within Intelligence Community and/or FSI community

• Experience selling cybersecurity solutions to Intelligence agencies

Why work at Delinea?

• Were passionate problem-solvers helping the worlds largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.