Sales Executive
Chicago, ILJob$107–201K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Check Point seeks a Sales Executive to win strategic enterprise accounts across a focused portfolio of approximately 10 prospects with 10,000 or more users. The role owns the sales journey from prospecting and executive engagement through strategy, negotiation, and closing cybersecurity deals. The executive coordinates specialists and sales engineers, builds trusted relationships, and drives growth across the assigned territory.
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Full job description
Why Join Us?
At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation. Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen. This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems. We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture. What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely. If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.
Key Responsibilities
What We Are Looking For Check Point is seeking a high-impact Sales Executive to win strategic enterprise accounts across a focused portfolio of approximately 10 prospect accounts with 10K+ users. In this role, you will own the full sales journey — from opening doors and engaging executives to shaping competitive strategy, leading negotiations, and closing transformative cybersecurity deals. You will orchestrate a virtual team of specialists and sales engineers to break into new accounts, build trusted executive relationships, and drive meaningful growth across your territory. Key Responsibilities
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Drive proactive new logo acquisition across assigned strategic accounts
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Build relationships with CISOs and senior decision-makers
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Apply disciplined prospecting methodologies to generate pipeline
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Lead contract and pricing negotiations through to closure
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Develop and execute strategic account plans
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Run and manage cross-departmental teams to close enterprise client
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Manage newly landed accounts through planned handoff period
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Use Check Point tools to manage opportunities, pipeline and forecast
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Coordinate a virtual account team (specialists, SE, etc)
Qualifications
What You'll Need to Succeed
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8+ years of B2B sales experience (3+ years in cyber security)
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History of consistent quota attainment and strong competitive win rates.
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Ability to build strong, long-lasting relationships with C-Level executives
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Ignite and accelerate high-quality pipeline through complex enterprise sales cycles.
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Proven ability to unseat entrenched competitors and win complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals.
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Structured discovery and qualification skills (MEDDICC, MEDDPICC, or Challenger).
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Willingness to travel across the assigned territory as needed.
Equal Opportunity Check Point Software Technologies is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled The wage range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors in determining your pay. We'll consider your location, experience, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The wage disclosure has not been adjusted for applicable geographic differentials associated with the location at which this position may be filled. A reasonable estimate of the current base wage range for this role is $107,400 - $201,000. In addition to the base compensation, certain roles are eligible for additional compensation, including an annual bonus or sales incentive based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Check Point Software Technologies and the country/state where you work. US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock awards and an employee stock purchasing plan.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,090 open Sales Executive jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$107–201K/yr
- Illinois median$100–176K/yr71 salary ranges
- US median$116–194K/yr1,628 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $154K, is 14% above the Illinois median midpoint ($135K) — in the middle half of Sales Executive salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 79 open Sales Executive jobs in Illinois and 2,090 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Deloitte10 open
- EMCOR Group5 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Sales Executive postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,658 postings).
- Education
- 294 of the 2,090 open Sales Executive jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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