Account Executive

Tessian protects every business’s mission by securing the human layer 

The Tessian Cloud Email Security platform helps enterprises defend against email attacks, protect against data loss and respond to security incidents more efficiently. By combining artificial intelligence with an understanding of employee email behavior, Tessian is able to prevent complex email attacks and data loss incidents that evade Secure Email Gateways and the built in security controls of M365 and Google Workspace. 

The world's largest banks, healthcare organizations, hedge funds and law firms all use Tessian to secure their email environments, data and people whilst saving their security team time. In 2022 alone, Tessian prevented hundreds of thousands of business email compromise attacks, data loss incidents and  saved hundreds of hours of work for security teams. 

Tessian is headquartered in London and Boston with 200+ employees globally and has raised over $120m in venture capital funding from world leading investors like Sequoia, Accel, Balderton, March, Citi and Okta. Tessian was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022. More information can be found at www.tessian.com.

We’re looking for outstanding tech salespeople who have consistently hit target and thrive in taking full ownership of the sales cycle, from lead generation through to closing. You’ll need to be inquisitive and able to professionally challenge security professionals, be an articulate presenter and a strategic planner, but above all, dynamic and goal-oriented.

We don’t pretend that it’ll be easy - joining a company and embarking on the scale-up phase is an amazing challenge, pushing well beyond the boundaries of natural growth cycles. You’ll move quicker than feels comfortable, and be brilliant at continually re-prioritizing what must get done to keep Tessian growing year over year at the pace of the fastest growing SaaS companies in history.

Responsibilities:

Generate, manage and forecast a sales pipeline on your own

Present our product to senior executives in client meetings

Navigate through complex sales cycles with some of the most prestigious companies

Be able to anticipate, manage and influence prospect objections 

Ensure high level of responsiveness with prospects through the sales process

Proactively source new leads and new business opportunities, with the support of the sales development and marketing functions.

Research accounts to understand need, enable effective follow up, and generate interest

Collaborate with team members and find strategic ways to win business

Build strong relationships with your prospects but also all internal stakeholders involved in the sales cycle

Qualifications:

Has a track record for exceeding targets in cyber security sales, ideally in start up, or 3+ years in a high-performing professional environment

Ideally has broad experience from lead generation through to closing deals

Presents themselves as highly credible and articulate face-to-face, over the phone, and via email

Has a confident persona and can deliver extraordinary customer relationships

Is very good at communicating complex technological ideas in a simple, compelling way 

Is highly professional and results obsessed

If you're not sure that you exactly fit all of the above criteria, please do get in touch anyway. We're always willing to speak to great candidates even if you don't feel you meet every criteria listed!

Tessian is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. The Human Layer we're securing is diverse, and we know we need to be diverse and inclusive to successfully create HLS that reflects this. You can read our equality and diversity statement here.

As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we're also a corporate member of the WISE Campaign for gender equality in STEM & we're a founding member of the WEDS network driving diversity & inclusion in startups.

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