Sales Director - Public Sector
At a glance
Director-level Sales Leadership role at Picus. Remote, United States · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $150,000–$237,500 across the United States.
Picus has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Build relationships across a focused public-sector account portfolio to uncover new sales and expansion opportunities
- Create account plans with partners, then work deals through to closure against assigned goals
- Keep discovery active with customers and prospects, learning their priorities and matching them with relevant solutions
- Coordinate with solution architects, product, marketing, support and customer success to deliver your sales plan
- Track opportunities and revenue expectations in the CRM while staying current on cybersecurity developments
What you bring
- At least eight years working in cybersecurity
- A record of leading consultative sales cycles in complex government accounts as an account executive
- Advanced written and spoken English
Who this fits
This director-level role suits an experienced enterprise seller who can manage public-sector relationships and work closely with partners and internal teams. It is remote and based in Washington, D.C.
From the employer
Picus validates attack surfaces, exposures, and security controls as one continuous loop: validate, decide, fix, re-validate. Instead of ranking findings by severity score, Picus proves which exposures are genuinely exploitable in your environment, including the business-critical, restricted, and air-gapped assets a live exploit can never safely touch, so teams act on what truly matters and resolve each exposure into a clear call to patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept with evidence.
The Picus Platform spans Autonomous Penetration Testing, Exposure Validation, and Breach and Attack Simulation, unified by Picus Swarm, a swarm of AI agents that runs the whole validation loop continuously. It reaches across on-prem, hybrid cloud, and endpoint environments, with 75+ integrations that ingest from scanners like Tenable and Wiz and operationalize through your EDR, SIEM, firewall, and ticketing tools.
The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus proves and improves the security controls you already own, doubling control effectiveness within three months. Picus holds a 95% recommendation rate, 4.9 on G2, and 4.8 on Gartner Peer Insights, and is the #1 Leader on Frost Radar for Automated Security Validation.
About The Role
If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company.
We are looking for a purpose driven, high-performing Sales Director, Public Sector with experience in enterprise technology sales to public / government accounts. You will be passionate about building long-lasting and impactful relationships with a select group of customers, solving their problems and driving sales of our world-class software products.
In this role, you will become a subject matter expert through the entire sales process. You will have responsibility for Picus’ value proposition with your customers and partners across your portfolio, managing strategic and tactical governance, cooperating closely with internal teams and partners to improve and optimize current business as well as identifying and prioritizing opportunities for Picus.
What You'll Do
- Work as part of a passionate, purpose driven, high performance sales team who love what they do and thrive on achieving success within a great work environment
- Nurture and tend a select group of customers and potential customers within public sector to generate and identify new business and expansion opportunities through your relationship management and problem-solving skills
- Work closely with partners to deepen relationships and drive opportunities to closure to drive business growth by developing and executing account-specific business plans to attain predetermined goals and quotas
- Remain in regular contact with your customers and prospects to maintain evergreen discovery processes, develop a deep understanding of customer businesses and priorities, helping them to discover their pain points and prescribe our available solutions
- Collaborate with internal teams, including, Solution Architects, Product, Marketing, Support, Customer Success to deliver the sales plan and Picus vision
- Manage your opportunity pipeline and revenue forecast by leveraging our CRM system
- Stay current with industry changes and trends to build expertise in cybersecurity and maintain familiarity with the owned accounts
What You Have
- Proven experience as an Account Executive managing sales processes in complex government organizations through a highly consultative sales environment, preferably within the SaaS industry
- At least 8+ years experience working in Cybersecurity
- Customer orientation; skills in understanding customer’s needs and priorities. Eager to help people reach their goals while also confident enough to challenge when required
- Growth mindset and business acumen; willingness to learn about the ever-changing world of cyber security
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to build relationships
- Enthusiasm, confidence, self-motivation and passion
- Organizational and time-management skills
- Apply analytical, data-driven approach and strategic thinking, finding unique ways to executing your plan
- Advanced level of English - written and verbal skills
- High level of integrity and strong commitment to building a successful company
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