Senior Account Executive

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Position to be located in Washington D.C or nearby surrounding metro

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Account Executive to lead strategic sales efforts across the Department of Justice and broader Public Sector community. This role combines traditional enterprise account ownership with F5 product specialization, focused on delivering F5 security solutions into highly regulated, mission-critical environments.

This is a quota-carrying, high-impact role requiring deep Federal DoJ sales expertise, strong partner engagement, and the ability to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder environments. An active Top-Secret clearance or renewal is preferred.

What You'll Do

• Own and grow strategic Department of Justice (DoJ) and broader Public Sector community accounts, serving as the primary point of contact across executive and operational stakeholders
• Drive end-to-end enterprise sales cycles from discovery through close, including technical validation, proposal development, and negotiation
• Act as a F5 Account Executive, positioning security solutions within broader F5 account strategies
• Engage senior leaders across CISO, CIO, CTO, and Risk/Compliance functions to align solutions with mission and security objectives
• Develop and execute account strategies that align to Federal procurement cycles, mission priorities, and long-term growth
• Build and manage relationships with Systems Integrators, Service Providers, and Federal channel partners
• Identify, qualify, and advance new business opportunities, while expanding existing relationships and mitigating competitive threats
• Lead executive presentations, product demonstrations, and proof-of-value engagements
• Maintain accurate pipeline management and forecasting, leveraging CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce)
• Provide market intelligence and customer feedback to influence product direction and go-to-market strategy
• Coordinate internal resources (Sales Engineering, Product, Marketing, Leadership) to deliver cohesive, high-impact solutions

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in Department of Justice and broader Public Sector sales, with a strong track record of quota attainment
• Experience selling into Department of Justice and/or Federal/Public Sector agencies, including understanding of procurement and contracting processes
• Preferred Department of Justice top secret clearance
• Proven success in complex, consultative sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders and long sales timelines
• Background in cybersecurity, infrastructure, or security-related solutions strongly preferred
• Ability to translate technical capabilities into mission, security, and risk outcomes
• Experience engaging with executive-level decision makers in large, matrixed organizations
• Strong partner engagement experience across SIs, VARs, and Federal ecosystems
• Familiarity with value-based selling methodologies (MEDDIC, Command of the Message) preferred
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills
• Willingness to travel to client sites, meetings, conferences and other required events

This position is a 50% Base 50% Commissions role and compensation is negotiable based on experience and knowledge.

The annual base pay for this position is: $131,200.00 - $196,800.00

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting View email address on click.appcast.io.