Ians
Account Director, Enterprise Account Management
Boston, MA. Posted 10 days ago
The role
The Account Director grows strategic accounts from departmental subscriptions to multi-department agreements. This role involves multi-threading across security organizations and using intelligence tools to expand adoption.
What you will do
- Own the full renewal cycle including pricing, contract restructuring, and multi-year agreements
- Monitor usage dashboards and intervene before churn signals escalate
- Build relationships across SOC, GRC, IAM, AppSec, and engineering security teams
- Identify and close upsell and cross-sell opportunities for MCP, VID, and faculty/AAE access
- Identify and close pen-tests, security assessments and other consulting offerings
- Build and execute 12–18 month strategic account plans
- Run quarterly business reviews to surface opportunities and demonstrate ROI
Required qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years proven success growing ACV within existing accounts through upsell, cross-sell, department expansion, complex renewals, or multi-year agreements
- High level of fluency and demonstrated impact using AI solutions to create value for clients and to improve the sales process
- Multi-threaded account management
- Stakeholder mapping
- Commercial negotiation
- Strategic account planning
- Adoption management
- Renewal execution
- Usage-data analysis
- Executive communication
- Ability to understand new offerings to identify expansion triggers and position MCP and VID
- Strong communication, intellectual curiosity, low-ego collaboration, sound judgment, proactive ownership, and the ability to earn credibility with technical and executive audiences
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree
Benefits
- Variable earnings
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Hybrid work
- Professional development opportunities
- Clear path to Regional Sales Director, Client Business
About the company
IANS is the trusted intelligence partner for enterprise CISOs and security leaders. They provide actionable advisory, peer benchmarking, and proprietary data to help security organizations make decisions.