Regional Account Executive (SMB/MM) (Fluent in Danish or Norwegian)
KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.
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The Account Executive (SMB/MM) (International) position is responsible for identifying and acquiring new logos within the Small/Medium and Mid-Market business segment to meet and exceed their monthly sales quota. This can be achieved by creating opportunities through various prospecting methods, following up on inbound leads, as well as reigniting open, outstanding customer opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Acquire Small/Medium and Mid-Market-sized new logo accounts within assigned territory to meet and exceed monthly sales quota.
- Build and maintain a pipeline of Small/Medium and Mid-Market business opportunities by various prospecting methods, following lead cadence best practices, and conducting demos of our suite of products.
- Articulate the value proposition of KnowBe4’s full suite of products and educate the customer how each product will improve their business’s human firewall.
- Understand an organization’s buying needs, key decision makers, potential roadblocks and next steps to shorten sales cycles and acquire a high volume of new logo accounts.
- Act strategically in offering subscription levels, multi-year deals and/or negotiating discounted pricing to increase ARR.
- Maintain accurate and thorough records of daily sales statistics via Salesforce.
- Collaborate with the assigned Channel sales representative to seamlessly close new logos through our Partner business channels.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years experience selling to Small/Medium or Mid-Market sized businesses
- Bachelor Degree or higher education equivalent, desirable
- Familiarity with standard concepts, practices and procedures within the IT, Security or Cybersecurity industry, desirable
- Experience with Salesforce, a plus
- Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
- Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
- Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Fluent in Danish or Norwegian
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