Strategic Account Executive

Strategic Account Executive

Chicago, Illinois

Strength in Trust

OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like.

OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.

The Challenge

We are looking for an Account Executive, Strategic. Account Executives have a critical role and responsibility to deliver new client acquisition in zero-base accounts, while also ensuring successful relationships and revenue growth with existing customers.

OneTrust is a fast-growing SaaS enterprise platform with a strong growth trajectory. We invest heavily in our Sales Team through demand generation, methodology-driven sales philosophy, weekly sales trainings, customer-driven roadmaps, and a readily-available executive team to help close deals.

Your Mission

The Account Executive (AE) is responsible for consistently generating, qualifying, and executing opportunities that support our customers in the pursuit of becoming more trusted organizations and drive revenue for OneTrust. AEs are expected to use their thorough knowledge of the industry and excellent value-based sales skills to create the best solutions and solve complex customer problems. AEs must bring useful insights and best practices to customers and prospects.

As a Strategic Account Executive, you will:

Meet or exceed quota

Conduct outreach to generate pipeline consistently even when engaged in closing activities

Demonstrate resourcefulness to identify & leverage stakeholders, leaders, and champions to drive execution of the sales strategy appropriately

Work effectively in a cross-functional manner with Business Development, Partner Channel, and Solutions Engineering to successfully land and expand key accounts

Utilize two-sided discovery & impeccable communication to understand the customers’ needs and articulate valuable solutions

Understand key competitors and their strategies to clearly differentiate OneTrust’s solutions in the marketplace

Establish customer relationships that enable OneTrust to be viewed as a trusted advisor

Manage and optimize a targeted geographic territory

You Are

You are someone with a hunting mentality and consultative approach. You bring curiosity, innovation, authenticity, leadership, and integrity to your work. You have experience communicating with C-Level Executives effectively, and you are confident in your communication skills. You approach new prospecting activities and deal-advancing activities with the utmost balance, and you are well-disciplined in sales processes and CRM hygiene.

Your experience includes:

Strong experience selling B2B Enterprise-level software or related technologies, ideally 12+ years, but exceptions may be made for the right candidate

Previous experience in Value Selling

Strong track record of performance with landing net new logos while growing and supporting existing key accounts

Previous experience running sales presentation/demos

Familiarity with Salesforce: The Customer Company or similar CRM solution

Extra Awesome

Experience in Privacy, Security, Third-Party Risk management, Compliance

Experience directly selling into the Information Security department

CIPP/E or CIPM certified

Trained in Command of Message

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.

Salary Range

$129,375 - $194,063 USD