The posting
Strategic Account Manager (VLE)
Shape the Future of Cybersecurity at Forescout
Every day cyberattacks threaten to disrupt hospitals, power grids, financial systems, and the infrastructure we all depend on. At Forescout, we build defenses that keep civilization running smoothly in an increasingly connected world.
For more than 25 years, Fortune 100 organizations, government agencies, and large enterprises have trusted Forescout as their foundation to manage cyber risk, ensure compliance, and mitigate threats. From power grids and healthcare systems to financial networks and transportation hubs, Forescout protects the critical infrastructure of our modern world.
What You Will Do
Forescout has an excellent opportunity for an engaging and employee-focused Strategic Account Manager (VLE) to join our high-energy, multi-cultural, world-changing team.
The Strategic Account Manager (VLE) is a senior, customer focused enterprise sales role responsible for owning, growing, and maximizing ARR across a defined territory of large, complex customers (50,000+ seat organizations).
This role requires proven experience building a territory, driving sustained pipeline creation, and managing sophisticated enterprise customers through long term, solution based sales motions. Successful sellers are highly active in their territories, bring strong partner and customer relationships, and demonstrate disciplined account planning and execution.
Highly competitive compensation plan with a 50/50 base salary to commission split, designed to reward overachievement and complemented by SPIFs and President’s Club incentives.
Responsibilities include the following:
- Own and grow a VLE Strategic territory, including territory build out, account segmentation, pipeline creation, and execution.
- Manage and expand a portfolio of large, complex enterprise customers (10,000+ seat environments) with full accountability for ARR performance and customer retention.
- Drive consistent ARR growth by identifying expansion opportunities, increasing platform adoption, and advancing strategic use cases across accounts.
- Achieve and exceed annual and quarterly targets by maintaining strong Gross Dollar Retention (GDR) and delivering incremental expansion ARR.
- Build and maintain a healthy, multi quarter pipeline, balancing expansion opportunities with strategic new customer acquisition.
- Lead complex, multi stakeholder sales cycles, aligning Forescout’s cybersecurity platform to customer security, IT, and risk priorities.
- Position Forescout as a strategic cybersecurity partner, not a transactional vendor, through deep understanding of customer environments and long term objectives.
- Develop strong executive, technical, and operational relationships across customer organizations to drive trust, adoption, and long term value.
- Collaborate closely with Sales Engineers to lead technically complex engagements and solution demonstrations.
- Leverage channel partners strategically, building joint account plans and co selling motions to accelerate ARR growth.
- Serve as the quarterback for the account, ensuring tight alignment across internal teams throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Maintain rigorous opportunity and forecast management, ensuring accuracy, discipline, and visibility into ARR and GDR performance.
- Influence commercial strategy, pricing, and deal structure, working cross functionally to advance and close opportunities.
What You Bring to Forescout
- Successful candidate will bring a strategic mindset while being able to execute successful account pursuits at a tactical level.
- MEDDPIC fluency, not as a checklist but as a tool to navigate complex selling environments.
- Strong partner network to include traditional cyber resell channel as well as system integrators and technical alliances.
- Strong knowledge of AI and incorporating the creative use of AI in work related tasks.
- Strong understanding of how to formulate and use strategic account plans as well as go live project plans.
- Strong desire to win and achieve.
What Forescout Offers You
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including coverage of 85% of employee and dependent health care premiums, 100% company-paid employee life and disability insurance premiums, a 401(k) match, generous flexible time off for U.S. employees, voluntary life, accident, and critical illness insurance options, employee assistance program, maternity and parental bonding leave, and more.
- A collaborative, innovative environment where you can help advance global security while working with leading technology.
- Leadership teams that take ownership of team growth, actively supporting development, career progression, and opportunities for employees to do their best work.
- Learn more @www.forescout.com .
Our Mission -Continuously identify, protect, and ensure the compliance of all cyber assets across the modern organization.
Our Values
- One Team– We all work together, and we all win together.
- Cyber Obsessed– We are curious about technology, and we are innovative and passionate about solving big programs.
- Customer Driven– We listen, we learn, and we make it right.
- Relentless– We're smart, determined, and find a way. We figure stuff out.
- Collaborative, without Ego– No one succeeds alone. We strive to be the humble person that people want to work with.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us. If this opportunity intrigues you, we encourage you to apply!
At Forescout, we are “Cyber Obsessed”. We are committed to maintaining a secure environment for our customers, employees, and business operations. To support these efforts, candidates may be asked to complete job-related pre-employment screening and verification processes, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Depending on the role and location, these measures may include identity verification, employment verification, background screening, work authorization verification, and other lawful security-related checks. Forescout conducts these processes in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, including privacy and data protection requirements, and obtains any required notices, authorizations, or consent before conducting such screenings.
Notice Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment
As part of our recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence ("AI") or automated decision-support tools to assist with reviewing applications, assessing job-related qualifications, matching candidates to role requirements, scheduling interviews, and supporting candidate evaluation. These tools are designed to assist our recruiters and hiring managers and are not the sole basis for hiring decisions. Qualified personnel review relevant candidate information and exercise human judgment throughout the recruitment process.
We are committed to the responsible use of AI and seek to deploy and use AI-enabled recruiting tools in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and our internal governance standards.
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES: We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Forescout does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.
