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Enterprise Account Executive, GRC (Remote)
SmartSuite · Irvine, California, United States · also Overland Park, Kansas, United States
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In short
You will own the full sales cycle for enterprise GRC accounts, managing everything from prospecting and discovery to negotiation and closing. You will also partner with Solutions Engineers to design solutions and build relationships with key stakeholders in risk, compliance, and IT.
What they're looking for
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
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Candidates must have 3 to 15 years of experience in B2B SaaS sales or GRC-focused roles with a strong understanding of risk management and compliance frameworks. You should possess excellent consultative selling skills and the ability to manage complex sales cycles with multiple enterprise stakeholders.
About the employer
SmartSuite
AI-native Work OS for GRC, ITSM, PPM & Business Ops
SmartSuite is an AI-native work platform that connects the workflows that run your business. Think of SmartSuite as a Work Operating System (Work OS)—a unified foundation for data, automation, AI, permissions, integrations, and reporting that helps teams build, manage, and scale work across the organization.
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Most teams start with a single workflow—then expand as they see the power of connected work across departments. SmartSuite makes it easy to standardize processes, assign clear ownership, automate follow-through, and gain real-time visibility from leadership dashboards down to the details in every record. SmartSuite includes purpose-built solution suites across four core areas: • Governance, Risk, Compliance & Resilience — unify risk, compliance, audit, third-party risk, operational resilience, business continuity, regulatory readiness, privacy, AI governance, and ESG. • IT Service Management (ITSM) — manage incidents, changes, requests, assets, and service operations, with direct connections to evidence, issues, and remediation. • Project & Portfolio Management — align teams on priorities, track execution across initiatives, and report progress against goals and OKRs in real time. • Business Operations — run processes across sales, marketing, product, operations, HR, finance, procurement, and more. With a modern UI and enterprise-grade governance, SmartSuite helps organizations replace spreadsheets and fragmented point tools with connected workflows, accountable execution, and measurable outcomes.
- INDUSTRY
- Software Development
- COMPANY
- Privately Held
- FOUNDED
- 2019
- HEADQUARTERS
- Newport Beach, CA
- SIZE
- 51-200
- OFFICES
- 1 on LinkedIn
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Questions about this role
- Is this SmartSuite role remote?
- Tagged remote.
- Does it sponsor visas?
- Listed as no visa sponsorship.
- What experience does it ask for?
- Listed as 10+ years.
The posting, in full
You will drive new business with enterprise organizations that have governance, risk and compliance needs, owning the full sales cycle for a defined set of accounts: prospecting, discovery, demos with a Solutions Engineer, proposal, negotiation and close. Your buyers are the risk, compliance, audit, security, legal and IT stakeholders who want to modernize their GRC workflows on the platform. You bring GRC domain knowledge, disciplined sales execution and a consultative approach to complex buying decisions. It is a quota-carrying, customer-facing role with real ownership, working with Solutions Engineering, Sales Leadership and Product to close deals, grow pipeline and deliver value customers can prove.
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About the role
You will drive new business with enterprise organizations that have governance, risk and compliance needs, owning the full sales cycle for a defined set of accounts: prospecting, discovery, demos with a Solutions Engineer, proposal, negotiation and close. Your buyers are the risk, compliance, audit, security, legal and IT stakeholders who want to modernize their GRC workflows on the platform. You bring GRC domain knowledge, disciplined sales execution and a consultative approach to complex buying decisions. It is a quota-carrying, customer-facing role with real ownership, working with Solutions Engineering, Sales Leadership and Product to close deals, grow pipeline and deliver value customers can prove.
What you will do
- Own the full sales cycle for enterprise GRC accounts, from prospecting and discovery through negotiation and close.
- Build and manage a pipeline of qualified opportunities within your assigned accounts and territories.
- Lead discovery with compliance, risk, audit, security and IT stakeholders to understand their needs and priorities.
- Partner with Solutions Engineers on demos and solution designs aligned to each customer's GRC use cases.
- Build relationships with the stakeholders and champions inside your target accounts.
- Forecast and track pipeline, deal progress and revenue in the CRM and sales tools.
- Share customer feedback and market insight with Product and Sales Leadership.
What you bring:
Required
- 3 to 15 years of experience in B2B SaaS sales, GRC-focused roles, or a combination of both.
- Experience selling software to enterprise customers with multiple stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of GRC: risk management, compliance frameworks, audits, controls and regulatory requirements.
- Strong discovery and consultative selling skills.
- Experience running structured sales cycles through qualification, demo, proposal and close.
- Comfort with CRM systems and sales enablement tools.
- Clear communication with technical and business audiences.
- A coachable approach to your own development and the initiative to run your accounts.
Preferred
- Experience selling a GRC, risk or compliance platform, or selling alongside a GRC consulting partner.
- Familiarity with the frameworks your buyers work to, such as SOX, SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
What success looks like
- Enterprise customers improve and modernize their GRC processes on the platform, and can show it.
- Pipeline grows steadily and closes through strong discovery and deal execution.
- Compliance, risk and security stakeholders in your accounts treat you as a trusted advisor.
- Your customer and market insight sharpens the company's positioning and sales approach.
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