Upmarket Account Executive - EMEA

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Laika helps businesses manage compliance, pass security audits, and become trustworthy partners in the marketplace.
The Role
As an Up-Market Account Executive, you will drive growth into new markets, manage a sales pipeline, close high-value deals, and collaborate with marketing and sales operations to enhance processes and sales enablement tools. You'll also influence organizational compliance and efficiency through strategic engagement with enterprise clients.
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Working at Thoropass

At Thoropass, we are on a mission to transform an industry that’s never been known for innovation, but we aren’t letting that stop us. We love collaborating to come up with new ways to solve problems that would stump other teams, and we have created a workplace where the best idea wins, and we bring out the best in each other.

Our team is full of entrepreneurial people with a bias toward action, an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and a desire to learn and grow personally and professionally. By bringing remarkably talented people together, we have the opportunity to create something truly amazing for our customers and our team.

What We Do

Thoropass combines simple software with expert guidance to help SaaS companies manage security compliance, security audits, and enterprise procurement security diligence. Thoropass helps companies adopt stage-appropriate compliance practices that small to enterprise level organisations can trust and reduce the time and costs of security audits by 50% or more.

We are a rapidly expanding team, headquartered in New York with offices in Costa Rica and London. We were founded in May 2019 and raised our Series C funding in November 2022. Our top investors include J.P. Morgan, PayPal Ventures, Fin Capital, Centana, and Bain Capital. We're growing customers and revenue dramatically, and we’re poised for continued break-out growth in 2024 and beyond.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced, Up-Market Account Executive to join Thoropass and our fast-growing sales team.

As a member of our sales team, you will help drive our growth into new markets. Your sales calls will be legendary for those that follow in your footsteps. 

Your closing skills and out-of-the-box thinking will push marketing to pump out great content modeled on you. You will be an inspiration to the sales development team and a trusted consultant to prospects.

As organisations continue to invest into technology, security and compliance has never been more important. You will play a pivotal role in transforming organizations in spearheading the implementation of our full end-to-end security and compliance solution. Your influence will extend beyond merely driving sales - you will be at the forefront of empowering organisations to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and establish a more resilient compliance program. Through your strategic engagement with up-market / enterprise organisations, you will be instrumental in showcasing how Thoropass enables businesses to navigate regulatory landscapes seamlessly. Ultimately, you will help guide each prospect in adopting our end-to-end solution, fostering a culture of adherence and accountability within the compliance ecosystem. 

What You'll Do:

  • Closing high five & six-figure deals in a 6 week to 6 month sales cycle
  • Managing a pipeline of prospects from client referrals, several inbound channels, and your own business development efforts 
  • Working closely with marketing and sales operations to identify new content, messaging, potential channels, and sales enablement tools
  • Refining and developing sales processes that can be scaled as we grow
  • You will play a vital role in growing our revenue and building systems and processes to exponentially scale based on your example.

Skillsets/ Requirements

  • Proven track record of success closing six-figure deals; ideally selling into up-market or growth tech companies
  • Outstanding communicator with a demonstrated strength in writing
  • Strong business development mindset and strategic thinking in the new age of outbound 
  • Ability to perform and run your own demo’s with a technical solutions engineer there to support 
  • Creative thinker, innovative and resourceful in both your ideas and methods, possessing a get-it-done mentality, unafraid to take risks
  • Intellectually curious, self-starter and fast learner that can understand complex technical issues
  • Obsessive about delivering results, winning and over-achieving
  • Strong analytical and organisation skills with attention to detail and experience managing a pipeline and tracking sales activities in a CRM (Salesforce preferred)
  • Experience with SaaS sales tools (e.g., Salesforce, Salesloft, Gong, etc.) and techniques (e.g., MEDDIC, Winning by Design, Challenger Sale, Value-based Selling, Sandler, etc.)

Bonus Points

  • Experience in compliance or information security
  • Experience at a later stage SaaS company

Compensation & Perks:

  • Immediate access to health, dental, and vision care
  • Early equity in a fast-growing company
  • Hybrid work from home model
  • Flexible PTO
  • Stipend for home office equipment
  • Monthly wellness stipend

Equal Opportunity

Thoropass provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Even if you feel you don’t meet every requirement, consider applying! Thoropass acknowledges the research which shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the stated qualifications. However, we’re looking for authentic innovators to blaze new trails and you just may be the right person for this or another role.

The Company
HQ: New York City, NY
75 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Laika helps businesses manage compliance, fly through audits, and build trust in the marketplace.
With Laika's software platform and expert-in-the-loop offering, it has never been easier to design, demonstrate, and maintain compliance. We take charge of compliance obligations comprehensively. Our platform serves as a compliance command center for managing controls, policies, internal/external audits, vendor risk, and more.
But unlike other solutions, we know that sometimes businesses just want an expert to take care of things. That's where Laika comes in. We specialize in compliance, audit, and attestation for digital-native companies and enterprises investing in digital transformation.
We've helped hundreds of companies build and manage their security programs, obtain security certifications, pass thousands of audits, and respond to hundreds of thousands of security assessment questions from enterprise procurement teams.

Why Work With Us

Laika is creating trust in the marketplace and empowering growth through compliance expertise. We are focused on our customers' success and we are dedicated to integrity, innovation, and excellence.
We believe in seeing the best in ourselves and our coworkers, finding smart solutions to difficult problems, and celebrating our successes. Join us!

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