Account Director, US Federal Financials & Capitol Hill

What You’ll Do as Account Director

• Build and execute a focused territory strategy, prioritizing the agencies, components, relationships, and opportunities with the greatest revenue potential.
• Audit inherited pipeline, re-engage customers and prospects, validate qualification and funding, and establish credible deal plans and forecasts.
• Generate net-new pipeline through direct prospecting, existing relationships, referrals, and federal partners.
• Own the full commercial relationship, from new-logo pursuit through renewals, upsells, and expansion, supported by Technical Account Managers, BDRs, Sales Engineers, Channel, and Field Marketing.
• Navigate federal fiscal cycles, Continuing Resolutions, procurement, contract vehicles, security reviews, and authorization requirements.
• Develop multi-threaded relationships across cyber threat intelligence, security operations, IT, program, procurement, and executive stakeholders.
• Apply MEDDPICC and value-based selling while maintaining accurate pipeline, qualification, next steps, and forecasts in Salesforce and Clari.

What You’ll Bring as Account Director

• 8+ years of direct, quota-carrying sales experience with US federal agencies, with a track record of creating pipeline, growing territories, and meeting or exceeding quota.
• Prior experience selling into US Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve and Capitol Hill (Senate, House of Representatives, etc)
• Existing relationships across relevant federal agencies, components, procurement stakeholders, and partner ecosystems.
• Experience selling directly for a cybersecurity, data, SaaS, or adjacent technology provider.
• Strong knowledge of federal buying processes, fiscal cycles, procurement, contract vehicles, and authorization requirements.
• Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales and translating technical capabilities, integrations, APIs, and intelligence data into mission and operational value.
• Strong operational discipline in Salesforce and Clari, or a comparable forecasting platform, within a highly data-driven sales environment.
• A builder mentality, commercial urgency, resilience, transparency, and comfort operating through change. Experience with federal financial agencies, the Legislative Branch, cybersecurity or threat intelligence, and acquisition or integration environments is preferred.