What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Executive (IT & Cybersecurity) position at Impact Networking?
Impact is a leading national managed services provider, specializing in: IT & Cloud, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation & AI, Integrated Marketing, and Print & Document Management. Our partnerships are defined by thoughtful business strategy, solutions architecture, technology deployment, and ongoing support –with a driving focus to bring enterprise-level resources to the SMB and midmarket. We are committed to customer-centric excellence, delivering tailored solutions that enhance client value and drive sustainable growth. Join our team of experts and be part of an innovative culture that puts customers at the heart of everything we do.
Founded in 1999, Impact proudly remains privately held and locally owned, employing 900 experts across 23 US locations. Recognized for rapid growth and innovation, Impact has seen a 24% annual growth rate, and championed a vibrant, employee-focused culture.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Account Executive to join our salesforce. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in consultative, high-value technology sales, with expertise in driving complex sales cycles, building consensus amongst C-suite executives, and educating for maximum resonance. This role is focused on driving revenue growth by identifying, pursuing, and closing new business. A successful candidate will be skilled at delivering value-driven solutions, aligning with client goals, and excelling in a consultative sales environment. An Account Executive will:
- Drive New Business Opportunities: Utilizing the Challenger sales methodology, you will strategically target ideal customer profiles (ICPs) within your designated territory. Your primary objective will be to identify and capitalize on new business opportunities, emphasizing our comprehensive suite of IT, cybersecurity, marketing, and digital transformation solutions.
- Solve Business Problems: Conduct ongoing, exhaustive discovery, multi-stakeholder alignment, and executive briefings to properly identify and address organizational needs’ in IT, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, and Marketing.
- Drive Innovation: Bring precision to a client's decision-making process by presenting and evaluating solution options and aligning decision makers.
- Become a Trusted Business Advisor: Exhibit through storytelling and our Business Transformation Assessment how addressing business challenges, providing solutions for these challenges and future proofing an organization is possible through a long-term partnership. This includes but is not limited to the delivery of executive-level presentation and demonstrations and construction of a long-term Digital Transformation business roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Business Development: Proactively prospect and secure new accounts, leveraging support from a dedicated SDR alongside your own strategic outreach. Utilize your deep expertise in IT, cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI, and marketing solutions to drive meaningful client engagements and close high-value deals.
- Consultative Selling: Understand clients' business objectives and challenges, effectively articulate alternative perspective to traditional customer thinking and challenge the status quo
- Solution Selling: Collaborate with technical and support teams to develop customized solutions tailored to clients' specific requirements.
- Pipeline Management: Manage the sales pipeline from lead generation to closure, ensuring accurate forecasting and timely follow-up.
- Thought Leadership & Market Intelligence: Stay informed about the latest trends, innovations, and best practices in IT, cybersecurity, marketing, AI, and digital transformation. Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader within the organization, providing insights and guidance on critical business needs and industry trends.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including sales engineers, consultants, and support staff, to deliver exceptional service and support to clients.
- Sales Technology Stack: Utilizing our tech stack to build targeted and well thought out cadences and outreach strategies to fuel pipelines. These technologies include but are not limited to Microsoft Dynamics (CRM), SalesLoft, 6Sense, etc..
Things We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to navigate complex deal cycles, and a passion for understanding and solving client challenges. They will excel at two-way communication skills, ability to identify economic drivers, comfort with pressuring customers in a non-aggressive way, and capability to build consensus among multiple stakeholders in a buying group. Ideally, a strong understanding of IT, cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI, marketing, and related solutions is essential, paired with the ability to align these offerings with client needs in a strategic, value-driven manner.
The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to navigate complex deal cycles, and a passion for understanding and solving client challenges. They will excel at two-way communication skills, ability to identify economic drivers, comfort with pressuring customers in a non-aggressive way, and capability to build consensus among multiple stakeholders in a buying group. Ideally, a strong understanding of IT, cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI, marketing, and related solutions is essential, paired with the ability to align these offerings with client needs in a strategic, value-driven manner.
Qualifications
- 5 years of sales experience in areas of IT, cybersecurity, digital transformation, marketing, business consulting or another related field
- Prior experience as an Account Executive, Enterprise Account Executive, Consultant or similar role focused on new business
- Proven experience with long sales cycles (6 months) and complex deal structures.
- Expertise selling to C-suite and aligning solutions with business goals.
- Strong proficiency in sales tools (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics, SalesLoft, 6sense or similar tools).
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
Why Join Us?
At Impact, we’re more than just a workplace—we’re a community driven by values that inspire innovation, collaboration, and purpose. Here’s what defines us:
- Innovation: We embrace change because innovation lives outside the comfort zone.
- Passion: We are driven by purpose, fueled by passion, and obsessed with making an impact.
- Honesty: We are fiercely transparent and consistently honest.
- Fun: We fuel work with fun, knowing life's too short for boring.
- Low Ego: We champion ideas over titles, because brilliance knows no rank.
- One Team: We win as a team, we lose as a team, we are one team.
Benefits We Offer:
- Expected Salary of $120,000-150,00 plus commissions/bonuses
- 20 days of PTO, plus12 paid holidays
- Flexible Sick Day Policy
- Paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive Health, Disability Life, Dental and Vision Plans
- 401(K) discretionary match & retirement plans
- Continued education reimbursement
- On-going training & development opportunities
Join us at Impact, where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work creates real change. Let’s build something incredible together!
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