Account Director (New York)
With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world's most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
As an Account Director at Recorded Future, you will play a critical role in driving revenue growth by managing a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts and generating new business. You'll own the full sales cycle, from prospecting to close, while building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders in cybersecurity, IT, and procurement. This is a high-impact, quota-carrying role idealfor a strategic, driven, and customer-obsessed sales leader.
What You'll Do:
New Business Acquisition
- Identify and pursue net-new logo opportunities through outbound prospecting, referrals, and channel networks
- Conduct strategic discovery to align cybersecurity needs with Recorded Future's intelligence solutions
- Engage channel partners in joint go-to-market motions, leveraging their reach and relationships
Account Management
- Own and grow key enterprise accounts across multiple verticals
- Drive upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities by identifying unmet needs and usage patterns
- Build strong, multi-threaded relationships across technical and executive audiences (CISO, CIO, VP of Security)
- Act as a trusted advisor, delivering insights and value beyond the initial sale
- Partner with Customer Success and other internal stakeholders to ensure seamless onboarding, support, and long-term customer value
Sales Execution & Forecasting
- Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles lasting 6–12 months
- Apply MEDDPICC and value-based selling frameworks to qualify and advance deals
- Develop and present compelling proposals, with a strong grasp of both technical value and business ROI
- Use Salesforce, Clari, and Gong to manage pipeline health, track activity, and maintain forecast accuracy
- Handle objections and pricing conversations with clarity, confidence, and professionalism
- Consistently meet or exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets
Market Intelligence & Strategy
- Maintain a deep understanding of cybersecurity trends, competitive dynamics, and enterprise buying behavior
- Provide market feedback to internal teams to inform product, positioning, and roadmap priorities
- Operate with urgency, professionalism, and high standards of customer care
What You'll Bring:
Experience
- 8+ years in enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity sales roles, with a focus on complex, multi-stakeholder deals
- Track record of consistently exceeding quota and driving territory growth
- Experience managing long sales cycles and closing 7-figure, multi-year contracts with Fortune 1000 clients
- Strong experience with direct sales and partner-driven go-to-market models
Skills
- Proficient in discovery, objection handling, and closing
- Deep knowledge of MEDDPICC and value-based consultative sales approaches
- Skilled in managing sales processes including approvals, legal reviews, and quoting workflows
- Comfortable engaging with C-level executives and adapting communication to a range of stakeholders
- Highly organized and operationally disciplined; fluent in tools like Salesforce, Clari, Gong
Preferred Qualifications:
- The grit, curiosity, and resilience to thrive in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- An entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive, self-starter attitude
- A customer-obsessed approach, with a desire to solve meaningful problems and deliver long-term value
- A collaborative and team-oriented; able to work cross-functionally and build internal champions
- Thoughtfulness, self-awareness, and composed under pressure
The base salary range for this full-time position is $123,000-$184,000.Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.
Recorded Future employees (or "Futurists"), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.
Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
Recorded Future maintains a drug-free workplace.
Account Director (New York)
With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world's most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
As an Account Director at Recorded Future, you will play a critical role in driving revenue growth by managing a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts and generating new business. You'll own the full sales cycle, from prospecting to close, while building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders in cybersecurity, IT, and procurement. This is a high-impact, quota-carrying role idealfor a strategic, driven, and customer-obsessed sales leader.
What You'll Do:
New Business Acquisition
- Identify and pursue net-new logo opportunities through outbound prospecting, referrals, and channel networks
- Conduct strategic discovery to align cybersecurity needs with Recorded Future's intelligence solutions
- Engage channel partners in joint go-to-market motions, leveraging their reach and relationships
Account Management
- Own and grow key enterprise accounts across multiple verticals
- Drive upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities by identifying unmet needs and usage patterns
- Build strong, multi-threaded relationships across technical and executive audiences (CISO, CIO, VP of Security)
- Act as a trusted advisor, delivering insights and value beyond the initial sale
- Partner with Customer Success and other internal stakeholders to ensure seamless onboarding, support, and long-term customer value
Sales Execution & Forecasting
- Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles lasting 6–12 months
- Apply MEDDPICC and value-based selling frameworks to qualify and advance deals
- Develop and present compelling proposals, with a strong grasp of both technical value and business ROI
- Use Salesforce, Clari, and Gong to manage pipeline health, track activity, and maintain forecast accuracy
- Handle objections and pricing conversations with clarity, confidence, and professionalism
- Consistently meet or exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets
Market Intelligence & Strategy
- Maintain a deep understanding of cybersecurity trends, competitive dynamics, and enterprise buying behavior
- Provide market feedback to internal teams to inform product, positioning, and roadmap priorities
- Operate with urgency, professionalism, and high standards of customer care
What You'll Bring:
Experience
- 8+ years in enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity sales roles, with a focus on complex, multi-stakeholder deals
- Track record of consistently exceeding quota and driving territory growth
- Experience managing long sales cycles and closing 7-figure, multi-year contracts with Fortune 1000 clients
- Strong experience with direct sales and partner-driven go-to-market models
Skills
- Proficient in discovery, objection handling, and closing
- Deep knowledge of MEDDPICC and value-based consultative sales approaches
- Skilled in managing sales processes including approvals, legal reviews, and quoting workflows
- Comfortable engaging with C-level executives and adapting communication to a range of stakeholders
- Highly organized and operationally disciplined; fluent in tools like Salesforce, Clari, Gong
Preferred Qualifications:
- The grit, curiosity, and resilience to thrive in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- An entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive, self-starter attitude
- A customer-obsessed approach, with a desire to solve meaningful problems and deliver long-term value
- A collaborative and team-oriented; able to work cross-functionally and build internal champions
- Thoughtfulness, self-awareness, and composed under pressure
The base salary range for this full-time position is $123,000-$184,000.Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.
Recorded Future employees (or "Futurists"), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.
Recorded Future is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Recorded Future does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
Recorded Future maintains a drug-free workplace.
