Strategic Account Executive

Location
Zürich, ZH, ch
Posted
Aug 25, 2026
Last seen
Sep 26, 2026

About the role

Check Point is seeking a high-impact Sales Executive to win strategic enterprise accounts across a focused portfolio of approximately 10 prospect accounts with 10K+ users. In this role, you will own the full sales journey — from opening doors and engaging executives to shaping competitive strategy, leading negotiations, and closing transformative cybersecurity deals. You will orchestrate a virtual team of specialists and sales engineers to break into new accounts, build trusted executive relationships, and drive meaningful growth across your territory.

Key Responsibilities

- Drive proactive new logo acquisition across assigned strategic accounts

- Build relationships with CISOs and senior decision-makers

- Apply disciplined prospecting methodologies to generate pipeline

- Lead contract and pricing negotiations through to closure

- Develop and execute strategic account plans

- Run and manage cross-departmental teams to close enterprise client

- Manage newly landed accounts through planned handoff period

- Use Check Point tools to manage opportunities, pipeline and forecast

- Coordinate a virtual account team (specialists, SE, etc)

- 8+ years of B2B sales experience (3+ years in cyber security)

- History of consistent quota attainment and strong competitive win rates.

- Ability to build strong, long-lasting relationships with C-Level executives

- Ignite and accelerate high-quality pipeline through complex enterprise sales cycles.

- Proven ability to unseat entrenched competitors and win complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals.

- Structured discovery and qualification skills (MEDDICC, MEDDPICC, or Challenger).

- Willingness to travel across the assigned territory as needed.