Enterprise Account Executive - San Francisco Bay Area
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Obsidian Security. Palo Alto · $340,000 OTE.
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What you'll do
- Build and execute territory plans that generate new-logo opportunities across assigned enterprise accounts
- Find, qualify, and close pipeline while delivering against monthly, quarterly, and annual targets
- Show customers how the security offering addresses their business needs and creates measurable value
- Coordinate with partners, alliances, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Professional Services to advance deals
- Maintain complete CRM records and provide reliable pipeline forecasts, including close ratios and market intelligence
What you bring
- At least five years of enterprise sales experience, including work introducing new technology to F1000 accounts
- Strong prospecting, qualification, and POV management skills that support new-business acquisition
- Ability to build relationships with IT security leaders, other business executives, and existing client contacts
- Skill in connecting customer problems to a solution's value and explaining that value clearly
- Ability to learn quickly, track market and competitor developments, and differentiate the product for prospects
Who this fits
You’ll suit a self-directed enterprise seller who can win new logos while managing existing relationships and collaborating with internal teams and partners. The role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and centers on enterprise accounts, C-level relationship building, forecasting, and deal execution. The stated compensation is $340,000 per year.
From the employer
Obsidian Security is a global leader in cyber security protecting the SaaS and non-human identity layer modern enterprises run on — from Salesforce and Snowflake to the AI agents now deployed inside them. The Obsidian Security platform gives unified visibility into every human and machine identity, app, and integration across their SaaS estate, detects identity-based and supply chain attacks in real time, and enforces least-privilege access before it's exploited. Trusted by major Fortune 500 companies T-Mobile, Workday, Snowflake, and S&P Global, Obsidian ranked No. 95 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, growing nearly 1000% from 2021–2024 — helping CISOs turn an unmonitored attack surface into one they can govern with confidence. Obsidian has also been recognized by Forbes as America's Best Startup Employers in 2026.
In August 2026, Obsidian raised $85 million in Series D financing led by Crescent Cove Advisors, with participation from existing investors including Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, IVP, Wing Ventures, and GV — pushing Obsidian's valuation to $1.1 billion, crossing into unicorn status. Obsidian is using the funding to deepen its R&D in agentic AI security and extend its platform as the standard for governing what AI agents can access and do inside third-party applications.
With global momentum, a growing partner ecosystem including SentinelOne, Databricks, and Google Cloud, and fresh capital from its Series D behind it, Obsidian is scaling rapidly toward long-term growth and IPO readiness.
About the Team:
We’re looking for a hardworking, focused and driven Enterprise Account Executive to channel energy, passion and initiative into new logo acquisition. You'll be responsible for developing and executing against a comprehensive account/territory plan whilst working collaboratively with our internal and external resources.
About the Role:
- Proactively, identify, qualify and close sales pipeline across your territory and accounts
- Close business to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly and annual business targets
- Demonstrate an extensive understanding of the Obsidian Security offering and our value to our customers
- Align with our partners and alliances to optimize opportunities
- Partner with internal resources across Sales Engineering, Customer Success and Professional Services
- Demonstrate accurate pipeline forecasting and management
- Actively participate in our sales enablement training
- The compensation range is 320-340k OTE.
About You:
- 5+ years of enterprise sales experience
- Working knowledge of sales concepts, methods and techniques
- Experience evangelizing new technology into F1000 accounts.
- Able to maintain and manage existing client relationships and accounts.
- Able to utilize existing client and/or C-Level relationships, as well as build new relationships across IT Security as well as other lines of business.
- Self Starter that creates and maintains a sales pipeline by capturing accurate and complete information in selected CRM databases including activity, closing, project forecast, close ratios and market intelligence.
- Strong ability to understand a customer's business issues and needs and be able to articulate and map back value to a solution.
- Strong prospecting skills, deal qualification, and POV management skills, leading to acquisition of new business.
- Team player with the ability to collaborate well with internal stakeholders or partners to drive opportunities to closure.
- Need to maintain and keep up with market trends, competitor analysis, and market conditions which may impact customers.
- Able to learn quickly and ramp to be able to effectively articulate and differentiate the value of our product to prospective clients.
Employee Benefits:
Our competitive benefits packages are designed to support our employees' well-being, both at work and at home. Our US based employees enjoy:
- Competitive compensation with equity and 401k
- Comprehensive healthcare with dental and vision coverage
- Flexible paid time off and paid holiday time off
- 12 weeks of new parent or family leave
- Personal and professional development resources
For more details on our US benefits, or for information on our international benefits, please see here.
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