Account Executive

Summary

Join UpGuard's expanding sales team in Singapore as their first Account Executive! This full-time role involves managing the entire sales cycle, from lead generation to closing deals with global customers. You'll leverage your B2B SaaS sales experience and proven track record of exceeding targets to contribute to our continued growth. The ideal candidate is a highly process-oriented sales professional with exceptional communication skills and experience negotiating complex deals. UpGuard offers a competitive compensation package and a fully remote work environment, along with various benefits to support your well-being and professional development.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of technology-related sales or business development experience at a B2B SaaS company
• You are a consistent top performer and have a history of exceeding your targets
• Selling to Mid-Market & Enterprise customers, including C-level executives, is right in your comfort zone
• You are an exceptional communicator, both written and spoken
• Demonstrated success with complex commercial and legal negotiations, working with procurement, legal, and business teams
• Experience working with and managing partners including global system integrators and packaged software vendors
• You are highly process and detail-oriented

Responsibilities

• Manage the full sales cycle, from lead generation to close
• Generate your pipeline of qualified net new sales opportunities via cold outreach
• Perform product demos via video conference to prospects
• Communicate and sell UpGuard’s value proposition to prospects
• Maintain accurate and detailed notes on every deal in your pipeline
• Work as a team with Sales Development Representatives (SDRs), Sales Engineers, and Operations to complete a full sales cycle
• Collaborate with other Account Executives and cross-departmentally to share knowledge and insights
• As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and securely use technology to connect with customers, employees, and suppliers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Hubspot CRM
• Experience selling with MEDDIC/MEDDPICC sales methodology
• You’re bilingual
• Experience selling SaaS to highly technical buyers (CIO/CTO/CISO), security in particular would give an edge
• Knowledge and understanding of the cybersecurity industry - ideally from a previous sales role in the industry

Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
• WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
• Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
• Top-spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
• Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform (all regions)
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work (all regions)