Account Executive, Growth - UK&I
Dublin, IrelandFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Account Executive role focused on growing Vanta’s UK&I market in EMEA, owning pipeline, running a structured sales process, and collaborating cross-functionally to close B2B SaaS deals.
Responsibilities
- Own your pipeline from the ground up — identify, research, and prioritize high-potential accounts and verticals, building a consistent outbound motion to create new opportunities.
- Run a world-class sales process — qualify deeply, forecast accurately, and progress deals using MEDDPICC or a similar structured methodology to drive predictable outcomes.
- Convert interest into long-term value — educate prospects on the business impact of Vanta, deliver compelling demos, and tailor solution recommendations to each customer’s goals.
- Communicate with executive presence — engage confidently with founders, CEOs, and technical leaders, translating complex compliance and security concepts into clear business value.
- Continuously sharpen your craft — act on feedback, seek coaching, and contribute to improving team playbooks, messaging, and outbound best practices.
- Be a self-starter who makes things happen — operate with urgency, ownership, and autonomy in a fast-moving environment where results matter.
- Champion market expansion — explore partnership opportunities, represent Vanta at industry events, and help us deepen our presence in new and existing markets.
- Cross-Functional — working alongside our SDR team, marketing team, legal and Solutions Engineers to find, run and win deals.
Qualifications
- 3+ years closing experience
- Have had a closing and quota-carrying role in the past, while consistently exceeding monthly and quarterly sales targets
- Be experienced in B2B SaaS, preferably in SMB and Mid-Market
- Be highly curious, seeking to understand customers, their needs and how best Vanta can help them
- Possess the technical competency to understand Vanta’s software and build great relationships with highly technical prospects
- Have stellar problem-solving skills, and an enthusiasm for making a large impact early on at a start-up
- Have entrepreneurial spirit, initiative and autonomy so you can make a huge contribution to the EMEA landing team
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.
Skills
Required:Pipeline management
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and mobile phone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who attend the office
- Pension matching
- 25 days of Annual Leave per year and unlimited sick time
- 8 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
- Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Vanta
Automate compliance, manage risk, and accelerate trust with AI
Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
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