Account Manager
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
The position is valuable due to its alignment with cybersecurity trends and high demand for account managers in this sector, alongside competitive compensation.
- Salary is competitive and reflects market standards
- Role is centered around a high-demand industry
- Mentorship opportunities available through partner collaborations
- Requires dealing with complex sales processes
Pros
- Engage in a growing sector with increasing demand for cybersecurity solutions
- Competitive salary and a well-defined career path
- Collaboration with channel partners boosts skillsets
Cons
- Requires C-suite engagement which might be intimidating for some
- Possibility of high pressure to meet sales targets
- May involve extended hours for dealing with clients across time zones
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid/Office
Good fit
- Sales professionals with background in tech or cybersecurity
- Candidates looking to advance in a rapidly evolving field
- Individuals capable of engaging C-suite executives
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without significant experience
- Those looking for a purely remote work environment
- Individuals not comfortable with high-pressure sales roles
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
The Role
We seek an experienced Account Manager to join our growing Commercial Add-On team based out of our Pittsburgh office. In this role you will focus on expanding our product footprint with our existing customer base. By joining our already successful team, you will be an instrumental part of our consistent year over year revenue growth!
Your day-to-day
• This is a Hybrid role requiring you to be in the Pittsburgh office 3 days a week
• The Account Manager will be responsible for working with our existing customers in a consultative manner to identify additional solutions from the Proofpoint portfolio
• Drive the entire sales process from start to finish including opportunity identification, introductory meetings, product demonstration, customer Q&A, as well as negotiation and closing
• Develop, customize, and utilize effective close plans to navigate and manage the sales process
• Team up with our world class Sales Engineering team to devise and execute account strategies and plans
• Engage with our rapidly expanding channel partner network to educate, inform, and drive incremental revenue • Interact with the management team in 1-1, team meetings and via forecasting and reporting to provide critical updates, and strategic account planning
• Provide outstanding and high touch customer service, including escalation and coordination of support issues as needed
• Become a perpetual student of Proofpoint products, and the ever-changing Cybersecurity industry!
• You can achieve your quota, but quite frankly we would love you to blow it out of the water!
• May require modified work hours to cover accounts in other time zones, and occasional travel for key accounts What you bring to the team
• Minimum 3 years of solution sales experience, focused on generating net new or add-on revenue
• Must have experience selling to the C-suite, extensive experience selling to CISO, CIO, CTO preferred
• Consistent track record of meeting and/or exceeding quota goals
• Experience managing longer sales cycles (2-6 months) from prospecting stage through negotiation and closing
• Experience or training in established sales methodologies such as SPIN, Sandler, Miller Heiman, Value Selling or The Challenger Sale is preferred
• Competitive nature, operating within a team environment
• Ability to present and discuss highly technical information, as well as aptitude to learn new concepts quickly
• Strong presentation skills, both in person and via phone/online
• Security or SaaS sales experience a plus
• Capable of providing great customer care while continuing to identify new revenue opportunities
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Why Proofpoint As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and treating them well is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in 30+ countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
