Director Account Executives (ENT)

KnowBe4 · Clearwater, Florida · Engineering

Posted 2026-07-22

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Clearwater positions open to candidates located in greater Tampa Bay area.

The Director Account Executives (ENT/Strategic) is responsible for managing a team of Account Executives and maximizing all sales opportunities they are assigned. More specifically, this position will ensure that subordinates are meeting and/or exceeding their monthly sales quota by targeting new business as well as reactivating dark (lapsed) customer accounts. In addition, this position will work to employ best in class sales techniques to ensure the sales team delivers on its revenue goals on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

Responsibilities:

Manage time off requests and other day-to-day needs of your team

Liaise with internal Legal, Infosec, Finance and Support Departments to help facilitate deals to close

Monitor and analyze team statistics, key indicators and results

Develop, implement, and manage sales strategies for the team in line with our GTM strategy

Lead and develop a highly productive and professional enterprise sales team meeting their monthly and quarterly sales targets

Collaborate with the Sales Development Team on drilling ideas, sales strategy workshops, etc.

Identify areas of improvement and suggest training and/or disciplinary actions to increase production in coordination with People Operations

Be up-to-date and fluent on KnowBe4 policy and procedure and ensure it is in use

Make genuine recommendations as to the hiring, firing, disciplining and promoting of Enterprise team members to which the company gives significant weight

Be an expert on closing, negotiating, prospecting and other key elements that are necessary to ensure departmental Monthly and Quarterly targets are met or exceeded

Maintain accurate reporting and pipeline management

Exemplify the values and mission of KnowBe4

Maintain an accurate pipeline for your team and conduct weekly pipeline reviews with all your Account Executives

Attend Company Marketing Events

Provide genuine recommendations  as to the hiring, firing, disciplining, and promoting of subordinate employees to which the organization gives significant weight

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years management experience

SaaS sales background preferred.

Experience with Gmail and Google Docs

Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)

Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)

Leadership skills required

Mastery of closing techniques, discovery questions, prospecting, building rapport and other key elements of the sales cycle

Strong verbal and written communications

Excellent time management and organization skills

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