
Cybersecurity Sales Specialist
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Job overview
The Cybersecurity Sales Specialist builds and closes security business with Account Executives, from initial CISO-team conversations through contracting and expansion. The role develops pipeline through existing accounts, outbound outreach, events, and partners; leads customer discussions around security needs; and partners with Applied AI engineers on discovery, proofs of concept, and architecture. It also guides security reviews and procurement, coaches Account Executives, and shares customer feedback with product and marketing teams.
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Key responsibilities - Build and close security business, from the first conversation with a CISO's team through contract and expansion, working with the Account Executive who owns each relationship - Create security pipeline with the Account Executives in your industry, from their existing accounts and through outbound to security leaders, events and joint work with partners - Lead with the customer's problem: finding and fixing vulnerabilities, application security, security operations, and deploying AI agents securely - Partner with your Applied AI engineers on discovery, proofs of concept and architecture, and know when to bring them in - Guide customers through security reviews, verification for security use cases, and procurement - Teach the Account Executives in your business unit to spot and qualify security opportunities - Bring what you hear from security teams back to our product, safeguards and marketing teams ## Minimum qualifications - Experience selling or supporting the sale of cybersecurity products or services to enterprise customers - Deep experience in at least one security domain, such as application security, vulnerability management, security operations, cloud, data, identity or endpoint security - Ability to hold credible conversations with a CISO, an application security lead and a security engineer about how their work gets done - A consultative approach to selling: you understand the problem before you propose anything, and you're honest about what a product can't do - A commitment to making AI systems safe and beneficial ## Preferred qualifications - 5 or more years in sales or other customer-facing roles, including 3 or more years selling or supporting cybersecurity products or services for enterprise customers - Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals where the security organization was the buyer or the deciding approver - Experience as a specialist alongside account teams while carrying your own number, and the ability to say exactly what you did to win the deal - Experience building pipeline where there's no playbook yet, through outbound and partners rather than inherited accounts - A record of leading through influence, not authority: Account Executives bring you into their accounts because you help them win - Experience selling security in one of the industries we cover, and an understanding of how security is bought and regulated there - Experience selling AI, developer or data platform products to technical buyers - Hands-on experience as a security practitioner or sales engineer before moving into sales The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the roles On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,965 open Enterprise Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington, D.C. median$164–244K/yr72 salary ranges
- US median$45–80/hr32 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 84 open Enterprise Sales jobs in Washington, D.C. and 3,965 across the US. 21% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Enterprise Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 8 years (3,439 postings).
- Education
- 345 of the 3,965 open Enterprise Sales jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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