Account Director, Italy

Recorded Future
Milan, Lombardia
4 giorni fa

With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and 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 ideal for a strategic, driven, and customer-obsessed sales leader.

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

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

What You Will Bring

  • 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

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Why should you join Recorded Future?
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 4.8-star user rating from Gartner and more than 45 of the Fortune 100 companies as clients.

Want more info?
Blog & Podcast: Learn everything you want to know (and maybe some things you'd rather not know) about the world of cyber threat intelligence
Linkedin, Instagram & Twitter: What's happening at Recorded Future
The Record: The Record is a cybersecurity news publication that explores the untold stories in this rapidly changing field
Timeline: History of Recorded Future
Recognition: Check out our awards and announcements

We are committed to maintaining an environment that attracts and retains talent from a diverse range of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. By ensuring all feel included and respected for being unique and bringing their whole selves to work, Recorded Future is made a better place every day.

If you need any accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to our recruiting team at careers@recordedfuture.com


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 will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.


Recorded Future does not administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. This is in compliance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in alignment with our hiring practices across all jurisdictions.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:
Recorded Future will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Recorded Future, including those sent to our employees or through our website, will become the property of Recorded Future. Recorded Future will not be liable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Agencies must have a valid written agreement in place with Recorded Future's recruitment team and must receive written authorization before submitting resumes. Submissions made without such agreements and authorization will not be accepted and no fees will be paid.

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