Major Account Manager, SLED
San Jose, CAJob$130–180K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Check Point seeks a Major Account Manager to grow a portfolio of approximately 20 existing customers and prospects, win strategic accounts, and lead complex deals. The role involves developing multi-year account strategies, building executive relationships, coordinating virtual account teams, and supporting customers’ security needs as they pursue digital and AI transformation.
Skills & qualifications
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Benefits
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 looking for a high-impact Major Account Manager ready to win new strategic logos and unlock growth across a focused portfolio of approximately 20 existing customers and prospects. In this role, you will shape bold, multi-year account strategies, lead complex deals with senior decision-makers, and bring together a virtual account team to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers in a channel-friendly environment. This is an opportunity to own a critical territory, build trusted executive relationships, and help some of the world’s leading organizations stay secure as they accelerate their digital and AI transformation. Key Responsibilities
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Drive new, expansion and renewal opportunities across all accounts
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Acquire new strategic logos while farming and expanding existing accounts
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Build executive relationships and secure senior-level access
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Develop and execute major account plans with multi-year view
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Lead complex, multi-stakeholder deal orchestration
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Lead contract and pricing negotiations
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Prioritize effectively across a large book of business
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Use Check Point tools to manage accounts, pipelines and forecast
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Coordinate a virtual account team (specialists, SE, etc)
Qualifications
Qualifications
- 5+ years of direct sales experience in enterprise technology, preferably in cybersecurity, SaaS, networking, or infrastructure
- Proven success selling into State, Local Government, and/or Education accounts
- Strong understanding of State of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Alabama procurement, budgeting cycles, and funding mechanisms
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex sales cycles and strategic accounts
- Self-starter with excellent communication, organization, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to travel regionally as needed (estimated 50%)
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Existing SLED customer base and state agencies and Higher Education Institutions relationships
- Experience working with or through public sector channels and distributors
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and compliance requirements in SLED
- Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM
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 $130,000-$180,000. 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 11,950 open Account Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$130–180K/yr
- California median$110–156K/yr947 salary ranges
- US median$97–147K/yr8,051 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $155K, is 16% above the California median midpoint ($134K) — in the middle half of Account Management salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,199 open Account Management jobs in California and 11,950 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- HUB International40 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Account Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (9,139 postings).
- Education
- 3,068 of the 11,950 open Account Management jobs (26%) 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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