Strategic Federal Account Executive, Public Sector (DIB)

Washington DC, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 300000 - 360000

Posted on: 3 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Glean:

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors flexible LLM choice and robust APIs Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern scale and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.

About the Role:

Were hiring a Federal Account Executive to lead our Public Sector defense industrial base (DIB) business focusing on defense primes key integrators and contractors building and operating missioncritical systems for U.S. Federal agencies.

This is a strategic fullcycle enterprise sales role. You will own a focused set of highvalue accounts build the DIB/federaladjacent motion and close complex multistakeholder SaaS and AI deals.

Glean is actively working toward FedRAMP but we are not yet FedRAMPauthorized. We need someone who is scrappy creative and comfortable selling ahead of certifications designing viable paths to value and deployment in a preFedRAMP world while influencing our longerterm public sector strategy.

You will:

Own and grow a strategic territory across defense industrial base accounts and select federaladjacent opportunities.
Build the gotomarket plan for your territory: target account list usecase focus partner strategy and coverage model.
Run fullcycle complex SaaS deals: discovery value hypothesis multithreading business case procurement navigation and negotiation.
Sell effectively without FedRAMP in place by:Educating prospects on Gleans security posture and deployment options;Identifying initial land paths (e.g. lowerimpact data nonFedRAMP workloads customerhosted or private deployments);Partnering with security legal and procurement teams to structure acceptable pilots and production rollouts.
Orchestrate crossfunctional deal teams Solutions Engineering Customer Success Product/Security executives and partners to move strategic pursuits forward.
Generate and manage pipeline with rigor through outbound prospecting events partner motions and expansion within existing accounts.
Act as the voice of the field for public sector feeding requirements and patterns back into product security and compliance roadmaps.
Land and grow lighthouse wins that can become references and case studies in the DIB and broader federal market.

About you:

8 years of quotacarrying enterprise SaaS sales experience.
6 years selling into U.S. Federal agencies and/or Defense Industrial Base accounts or highly comparable experience at primes SIers or major cloud/security vendors.
Consistently met or exceeded quota in roles with large ACV multistakeholder multiyear deals.
Navigated federal procurement and security reviews (e.g. ATO processes vendor risk assessments security questionnaires).
Worked closely with Sales Engineering and Product/Security to address technical and compliance requirements in latestage cycles.
Direct experience selling into defense primes major integrators or key DIB contractors.
Background at a cloud data security or AI platform vendor.
Existing relationships across DoD inteladjacent agencies and DIB leadership.
Experience with search knowledge management LLMs/AI assistants or collaboration products.
Active or prior U.S. security clearance (not required).

Location:

This role is remote
Candidates are required to reside in the Washington DC area

Compensation & Benefits:

The standard on target earnings for this position is $300000 - $360000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.

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Required Experience:

About Glean:Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 10...

About Glean:

About the Role:

This is a strategic fullcycle enterprise sales role. You will own a focused set of highvalue accounts build the DIB/federaladjacent motion and close complex multistakeholder SaaS and AI deals.

You will:

Own and grow a strategic territory across defense industrial base accounts and select federaladjacent opportunities.
Build the gotomarket plan for your territory: target account list usecase focus partner strategy and coverage model.
Run fullcycle complex SaaS deals: discovery value hypothesis multithreading business case procurement navigation and negotiation.
Sell effectively without FedRAMP in place by:Educating prospects on Gleans security posture and deployment options;Identifying initial land paths (e.g. lowerimpact data nonFedRAMP workloads customerhosted or private deployments);Partnering with security legal and procurement teams to structure acceptable pilots and production rollouts.
Orchestrate crossfunctional deal teams Solutions Engineering Customer Success Product/Security executives and partners to move strategic pursuits forward.
Generate and manage pipeline with rigor through outbound prospecting events partner motions and expansion within existing accounts.
Act as the voice of the field for public sector feeding requirements and patterns back into product security and compliance roadmaps.
Land and grow lighthouse wins that can become references and case studies in the DIB and broader federal market.

About you:

8 years of quotacarrying enterprise SaaS sales experience.
6 years selling into U.S. Federal agencies and/or Defense Industrial Base accounts or highly comparable experience at primes SIers or major cloud/security vendors.
Consistently met or exceeded quota in roles with large ACV multistakeholder multiyear deals.
Navigated federal procurement and security reviews (e.g. ATO processes vendor risk assessments security questionnaires).
Worked closely with Sales Engineering and Product/Security to address technical and compliance requirements in latestage cycles.
Direct experience selling into defense primes major integrators or key DIB contractors.
Background at a cloud data security or AI platform vendor.
Existing relationships across DoD inteladjacent agencies and DIB leadership.
Experience with search knowledge management LLMs/AI assistants or collaboration products.
Active or prior U.S. security clearance (not required).

Location:

This role is remote
Candidates are required to reside in the Washington DC area

Compensation & Benefits:

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