Cybersecurity Account Executive (Mid Market) - SoCal Region
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About the role: We are seeking a Mid Market Account Executive to join our team to cover the SoCal region and own the end-to-end sales process for all prospects and customers. As a Cybersecurity Account Executive at Cyberhaven, you will drive prospecting, pitching, closing, and negotiating deals with a go-getter attitude and act as a true brand ambassador.
What you’ll do:
Establish professional and productive relationships with new and existing assigned accounts.
Qualify, manage, and support leads from marketing campaigns and sales opportunities, progressing them through the Cyberhaven sales process.
Build a local franchise to own the market in your territory through trusted partner relationships and strategic alliances.
Continuously build new pipeline and exceed assigned software and services growth goals.
Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market, as well as upsell and cross-sell of existing clients.
Contact potential clients through cold calls and emails, presenting Cyberhaven’s unique DDR (Data Detection and Response) solution.
Identify client needs and suggest appropriate products and services.
Proactively plan, set critical milestones, assess, clarify, and validate partner needs on an ongoing basis to establish productive relationships.
Stay up-to-date with new products, services, and pricing models.
Build long-term trusted relationships with clients and partners.
Who you are:
Possess 5+ years of experience selling SaaS, with a focus on Cybersecurity software in the SoCal region. Experience with DLP (Data Loss Prevention) and DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) strongly preferred.
Competitive, self-starter, willing to work hard, and own results.
Willing to ask questions, possess a strong work ethic, be persistent, and be coachable.
Lifelong learner with curiosity and an open mind, never settling for good enough.
High energy, driven by passion for the work, and bring optimism and compassion to the workplace.
Ability to understand technical concepts, possess enthusiasm for technology, and articulate clearly to all levels of technical aptitude.
Ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced environment.
Joining Cyberhaven means joining the team building Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise. Traditional tools fall short. Cyberhaven traces the full lifecycle of your data, adapting protection to changing context, so protection moves with the way people actually work, not against it. AI Changed Work. We Protect It.
Backed by $250M from leading investors like Khosla and Redpoint, our team includes leaders who built industry-defining technologies at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, and more. This role lets you shape the future of data security, working alongside people driven to protect workflows, not just data, for customers who cannot afford to slow down to stay safe.
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View Company ProfileCyberhaven is a revolutionary data security unicorn fundamentally redefining how enterprises protect their most sensitive information in the modern AI era. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company provides a unified AI & Data Security Platform that seamlessly combines Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), next-generation Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Insider Risk Management (IRM), and dedicated AI Security. Under the hood, Cyberhaven goes far beyond legacy DLP tools by utilizing its proprietary "Linea AI" and deep data lineage technology. This system actively traces the entire lifecycle of every piece of enterprise data as it moves across cloud environments, endpoints, SaaS applications, and Generative AI tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot). Their primary target audience spans Fortune 500 enterprises, global financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and high-growth tech companies that need to aggressively prevent data exfiltration and insider threats without blocking legitimate employee workflows. What sets Cyberhaven apart in the fiercely competitive cybersecurity landscape is its context-aware, agentic AI approach—giving organizations absolute, real-time visibility into the origin, movement, and intent behind their proprietary data, empowering them to securely accelerate AI adoption while remaining strictly compliant.
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