Description
Recorded Future is looking for an Account Director to serve the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), focusing on winning new business and deepening existing relationships.
The ideal candidate combines new-business acumen with strategic account growth skills, connecting Recorded Future's intelligence capabilities to agency missions and priorities.
Responsibilities
- Identify, develop, and close new business opportunities across the IC, building relationships with various stakeholders.
- Develop and execute strategic territory and account plans, identifying whitespace and expansion opportunities.
- Build multi-threaded relationships across complex IC organisations and engage stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Own renewals, upsells, and expansion within existing accounts while protecting long-term customer relationships.
- Proactively identify customer risk and reinforce the mission and operational value of Recorded Future's solutions.
- Apply a consultative, insight-driven sales approach to uncover customer challenges and align solutions to IC mission priorities.
- Manage the full sales cycle end-to-end, navigating federal funding cycles, IC procurement processes, and security reviews.
- Partner with Sales Engineers and internal teams to develop tailored solutions and progress complex opportunities.
- Maintain accurate territory and account plans, qualified pipeline, and forecasts in Salesforce and Clari.
Requirements
- 8+ years of direct, quota-carrying sales experience serving U.S. federal customers, including the Intelligence Community.
- Demonstrated success selling into major IC agencies, such as CIA, NSA, NRO, NGA, DIA, or FBI.
- Proven success driving new business development through a land-and-expand strategy.
- Experience managing and growing IC accounts, identifying whitespace and expansion opportunities.
- Ability to navigate complex buying groups and influence mission, technical, procurement, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong consultative selling, discovery, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience owning complex IC sales cycles, with strong knowledge of federal funding, IC procurement processes, and security reviews.
- Ability to balance new-business generation and long-term strategic growth.
- Experience selling directly for a cybersecurity, threat intelligence, data, SaaS, or adjacent technology provider.
The base salary range for this full-time position is $123,000 - $184,000.