Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Enterprise Account Executive roles remain central to how SaaS companies turn platform value into durable revenue, and this one sits squarely in the enterprise segment of cloud-native security and observability. The remit spans both net-new logo acquisition and expansion within existing accounts, reflecting a SaaS go-to-market model where land-and-expand and multi-use-case adoption drive long-term ARR.
For a SaaS sales career, the most relevant learning here is operating across the full commercial lifecycle in complex environments: discovery, value quantification, renewal motion, and account growth. The emphasis on forecasting discipline and operational efficiency aligns with how mature SaaS organizations manage predictability, while the expectation to feed insights back to product, engineering, and marketing mirrors the cross-functional loops that shape roadmap and positioning in technical SaaS categories.
This role tends to fit enterprise sellers who prefer owning outcomes end to end and who are comfortable engaging both technical stakeholders and economic buyers. It also suits professionals who like structured qualification methods and who can balance field relationship-building with rigorous pipeline management, particularly in territories where in-person engagement is a meaningful part of winning and expanding accounts.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Enterprise Account Executive - Ohio
Sumo Logic addresses both security and observability use cases all while riding on a world class logging, SIEM, and security analytics cloud native platform. Combined with a newly installed executive sales and operations team, the time is now for overachievement and we’re looking for the next thinkers, doers and challengers to join us. This position calls for a seasoned, strategic Account Executive in our enterprise sales segment which is responsible for driving growth within a subset of some existing accounts and hunting for net new logo accounts. Once you land accounts you will focus on expansion. You are the tip of the spear, face of the company, owning the relationship and responsibility of our customers’ success.
Responsibilities
- Land and expand new logo accounts. Treat existing customer base like new logos to drive incremental ARR growth within the account. Expand existing use cases and introduce new use cases to current buying centers.
- Measure and quantify the business value of our existing use cases and evangelize aggressively to new buying centers within each customer.
- Responsible for the full sales cycle of new, incremental and renewal business within the territory.
- Exude operational efficiency and forecast accuracy to run a best-in-class business.
- Up to 50% in-market travel to establish relationships. Be able to cultivate and grow relationships into referenceable champions.
- Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions, particularly engineering, product management and marketing.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Minimum 7+ years of total IT sales experience and 5+ years consistent quota over achievement selling software to enterprise-level customers.
- Ideally, you will have sold an on-demand/SaaS Security or IT Infrastructure Management solution to a technical and business audience (IT Heads / DevOps / Security Operations, etc)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. We need storytellers and those that can simplify the complex for economic buyers and executives.
- Good Sales DNA and methodology such as MEDDPICC is highly desired.
- High activity with a fast motor to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly evolving technical environment.
- Must be a team player and a life-long learner. You must be curious to know the ‘why’.
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
Sumo Logic Privacy Policy. Employees will be responsible for complying with applicable federal privacy laws and regulations, as well as organizational policies related to data protection.
The expected annual base salary range for this position is $121,000 - $143,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.
Must be authorized to work in the United States at time of hire and for duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.
