Our mission and why it matters

We are on a mission to make humans the strongest security layer.

Human risk remains one of the biggest vulnerabilities and traditional awareness training is not enough. We take a different approach by combining AI-driven personalization, real threat detection, and behavioral science to actively protect people and organizations.

We don't just simulate risks. We build the tools that detect and stop them.

About this role

We are looking for an Account Executive to join our Enterprise sales team in the United States. You will be part of a growing sales team on the ground, working with an award-winning product in an industry that is more crucial than ever before. You'll get to work with large global organizations and help them to build and foster a more cyber-secure company culture.

As an Account Executive, your responsibilities are to build and manage a strategic sales pipeline through cold-prospecting into target companies, close new business, and hit your sales quota. We'll support and supply you with the tools and frameworks for you to successfully grow our presence in the area.

What you’ll do

Build and manage a strategic pipeline of enterprise opportunities through proactive outbound prospecting.
Own the full sales cycle from discovery to close, navigating complex buying processes.
Partner closely with SDR and Marketing teams to drive pipeline generation and account strategy.
Develop a deep understanding of prospect business challenges and position Hoxhunt’s solutions effectively.
Consistently meet and exceed sales targets, driving measurable growth in the region.

What success looks like

In your first 30 days, you will dive deep into Hoxhunt's product, value proposition, and sales motion, while building strong collaborative relationships with our SDR and Marketing teams.
By day 60, you will be actively driving your own pipeline through proactive outbound prospecting, running discovery calls, and managing early-stage enterprise opportunities.
By day 90 and beyond, you will be independently navigating buying processes, consistently closing deals, and contributing to the overall growth of our North American presence.

What we’re looking for

Proven SaaS Sales Expertise: 3+ years experience in B2B SaaS sales or business development, with a track record of exceeding targets.
Customer-Centric Mindset: Genuine interest in understanding prospect challenges and connecting solutions to real business needs.
Hunter Mentality & Drive: Goal-oriented, energized by building pipeline and closing new business.
Quick Learner: Ability to grasp new concepts and articulate value clearly and effectively.
Strong Communicator: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust quickly.

Bonus Points

Highly autonomous and self-motivated, thriving in a scale-up environment where you take full ownership of your success.
Ambitious and results-driven, with a passion for growing a market presence.
Skilled at understanding customer needs quickly and translating them into impactful solutions.
Resilient and resourceful, able to adapt strategies when facing challenges.
A true team player who embodies a “succeed together” mindset.

Who you’ll work with

At Hoxhunt, we don't just build software. We build behavior change on a global scale. With a world-class product and over 50% year-on-year growth, we're helping companies around the world create a culture of cybersecurity, one employee at a time.

You’ll join a high-performing team focused on growing our presence in North America. The Minneapolis office is a hub for collaboration, where people work closely together, share ideas openly, and support each other in getting results. It’s a hands-on environment where you’ll have visibility into the business and the opportunity to make an impact early.

What you can expect from us

Compensation: Annual base salary of $100K–$125K depending on experience, with an annual OTE of $196K–$221K, and uncapped commission potential.
Working ways: We work in a flexible, hybrid setting. Most roles include regular in-office time.
High performance meets high humanity: We’re a high-performing team with ambitious goals and a strong focus on impact. Just as important, we create an environment where people feel supported, respected, and empowered to succeed together.
Authentic trust & autonomy: We hire great people and trust them to do great work. You’ll find a culture that values autonomy, giving you the space to take real ownership, drive impact, and help shape things early on.
A product you can be proud of: It is incredibly rare in cybersecurity to build an award-winning product that end-users genuinely love. You will join a fast-paced, technically sophisticated team making a real, measurable impact against cybercrime.
The perks that matter: Alongside this amazing community, you will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage (with a portion of premiums covered by the company), life insurance, PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays, wellness benefits, paid parental leave, a 401(k) match, and more.

Recruitment Process

We want to get to know you and how you think!

Our interview process typically includes:

Initial virtual interview with Talent Acquisition (30 min, remote)
Interview with the hiring manager, our VP of Sales at our office in Edina, MN (45 min, onsite)
Interview with our CRO (45 min, remote)
Final panel interview at our office in Edina, MN (1 hour, onsite)
Offer
References & Background Check

About Hoxhunt

Hoxhunt was founded in 2016 by four visionaries. Today we are a global team of +300 amazing Hoxhunters advancing a truly AI-native category leader in human risk management, with key hubs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Finland. We are proud to be an award-winning, fast-growing software company, recognized by G2 and Gartner, named to TIME Magazine's list of the World's Top EdTech Companies, and featured for our innovation in major publications like Fast Company, TechCrunch, Forbes, and Inc.

As a multi-product company, Hoxhunt goes beyond traditional security awareness. We don't just educate employees through frequent, personalized, and behavior-changing cybersecurity training - we also actively build real threat intelligence and response tools that protect organizations against malicious cyberattacks every single day.

Be among the first to know about our open positions. Drop your details in our Talent Community, and we will reach out when there is a match!

About the company

Hoxhunt provides a gamified phishing training platform for organizations to improve employee cybersecurity awareness. It helps companies run phishing simulations and training modules that engage users through game-like activities, delivering real-time response data and analytics to track progress and tailor ongoing education. The product works by sending simulated phishing emails to employees, collecting their responses, and presenting immediate feedback and challenges, with dashboards that show metrics across the workforce. Hoxhunt differentiates itself with its emphasis on user engagement and continuous learning, using gamification and real-time analytics to make training an ongoing process rather than a one-off event. The company operates on a subscription model, serving businesses from its offices in Helsinki and London, with the goal of lowering organizational risk by making employees a stronger line of defense against phishing.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$43.1M

Headquarters

Helsinki, Finland

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

August 20, 2026 toolkit positions Hoxhunt inside Cybersecurity Awareness Month planning cycles.
June 2026 employee counts near 305 show continued hiring, not contraction.
September 15, 2026 CSO50 wins validate enterprise demand for outcome-driven human risk management.

What critics are saying

Microsoft and Deloitte partnerships strengthen incumbents that can bundle awareness into broader security suites.
Standalone training commoditizes fast; Hoxhunt’s 2026 features invite copying by larger platforms.
If Microsoft 365 Security absorbs phishing training, Hoxhunt loses budget and renewal leverage by 2027.

What makes Hoxhunt unique

September 15, 2026 AI Content Studio turns policies into multilingual lessons in minutes.
Hoxhunt’s behavioral-science gamification still separates it from static compliance training vendors.
The September 2026 suite spans 300-plus modules and 40-plus languages, scaling globally.

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Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) Company Match
Paid Holidays
Paid Vacation
Parental Leave
Wellness Program
Flexible Work Hours
Hybrid Work Options

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PR Newswire

Oct 21st, 2026

Hoxhunt launches tool linking security signals to spot and curb risky employee behaviour

Hoxhunt, a human risk management platform, has launched Secure Behavior Detection and Response, a product that turns scattered security signals into a clear view of risky employee behaviour. It announced the launch on October 21, 2026. The product correlates events from Hoxhunt, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, and other sources. Security leaders can spot patterns at the employee, team, and organisation level, then trigger coaching, policy reminders, training, or escalation. "Security teams lack context, not data," said Mika Aalto, co-founder and chief executive officer of Hoxhunt. Uber used the approach in a programme co-created with Hoxhunt, which it ran with a two-person team for more than 25,000 users. Training completion rose 50%, threat reporting tripled, and Uber's internal security maturity assessment improved 54%. Monster Energy cut security incidents by over 90%.

PR Newswire

Oct 7th, 2026

Hoxhunt Respond cuts phishing tickets by 99% with automated email threat detection

Hoxhunt has expanded its email incident response automation platform, Hoxhunt Respond, which can reduce phishing tickets requiring analyst attention by up to 99% and remediate confirmed malicious campaigns in under one minute. The platform automatically investigates reported emails, groups related messages into single campaign-level incidents, and suppresses safe or duplicate reports. Once a threat is confirmed, it finds and removes matching messages across affected inboxes. Hoxhunt data shows that roughly 80% to 85% of employee-reported emails are benign. The platform has been documented to save more than 900 hours of SOC analysis per month at enterprise companies. Hoxhunt analyses reported emails using models trained on 10 years of employee-reported phishing data from more than five million human sensors. The platform classifies malicious emails with 96% accuracy.

PR Newswire

Sep 15th, 2026

Hoxhunt launches AI-powered Security Awareness Training for employees.

Hoxhunt launches AI-powered Security Awareness Training for employees. Sep 15, 2026, 09:00 ET Expanded automation, 300+ lessons, 40+ languages, and policy-to-lesson AI help awareness teams deliver relevant training with less manual work MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Hoxhunt, the Human Risk Management platform, today announced a major expansion of Hoxhunt Security Awareness Training (SAT). The upgraded suite gives security teams fresh, company-specific content generated in seconds, broader topic coverage, faster localization, automated administration and interactive AI voice training. Security awareness leaders have traditionally had to accept generic content that employees tune out, or spend hours creating lessons for company policies, industry risks and local languages. The new AI-powered SAT removes that tradeoff. It combines Hoxhunt's adaptive technology and extensive content library with greater administrative control, allowing organizations to deliver timely, relevant training at global scale without creating more work for already stretched security teams. What Hoxhunt expanded SAT delivers * AI-automated customization: Content Studio turns internal policies and existing materials into editable, on-brand lessons in under five minutes, ready for admin review. Administrators retain control over editing, audience selection and publishing. * Fresh, expanded training coverage: More than 300+ video and text modules address security fundamentals, emerging threats and compliance requirements including PCI DSS, HIPAA, DORA and GDPR. Interactive exercises and quiz formats provide additional variety. * Locally relevant content: AI-powered translation with admin review supports more than 40 languages, reducing the manual work and cultural mismatch created by English-only, US-centric training. * Automated program management: Enrollment, reminders, manager escalations and completion tracking can be automated, while training can be tailored by role, department, location and risk. "Most security teams don't need another warehouse of generic content. They need an endless supply of relevant training without an endless workload," said Mika Aalto, co-founder and CEO of Hoxhunt. "Hoxhunt was built to adapt to people long before AI was cool. The new AI-powered SAT puts that foundation to work across the full awareness program - creating fresh content, localizing it, automating delivery and giving employees realistic practice for social engineering beyond email." Five major companies won prestigious CSO50 awards in 2026 for Security Awareness Training and Human Risk Management programs powered by the latest Hoxhunt capabilities. About Hoxhunt Hoxhunt is a Human Risk Management platform that helps security leaders and employees join forces to prevent data breaches. Hoxhunt combines AI and behavioral science to consolidate signal data, take timely actions on risky activities, and gamify individualized micro-training experiences that people love. As employees learn to detect and report advanced phishing attacks, operations teams can respond at machine speed to incidents, and transform security culture with limited resources. Security leaders shine with outcome-driven metrics that document reduced cybersecurity risk. Hoxhunt works with leading global companies such as Airbus, Uber, Monster Energy, Qualcomm, Docusign, Nokia, AES, AirAsia, and E.ON, and partners with leading global cybersecurity companies such as Microsoft and Deloitte. Media Contact Christian Morley ICR for Hoxhunt [email protected] SOURCE Hoxhunt

Disaster Recovery Journal

Sep 15th, 2026

Hoxhunt launches AI-powered Security Awareness Training for employees.

Hoxhunt launches AI-powered Security Awareness Training for employees. September 15, 2026 Expanded automation, 300+ lessons, 40+ languages, and policy-to-lesson AI help awareness teams deliver relevant training with less manual work. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Hoxhunt, the Human Risk Management platform, today announced a major expansion of Hoxhunt Security Awareness Training (SAT). The upgraded suite gives security teams fresh, company-specific content generated in seconds, broader topic coverage, faster localization, automated administration and interactive AI voice training. Security awareness leaders have traditionally had to accept generic content that employees tune out, or spend hours creating lessons for company policies, industry risks and local languages. The new AI-powered SAT removes that tradeoff. It combines Hoxhunt's adaptive technology and extensive content library with greater administrative control, allowing organizations to deliver timely, relevant training at global scale without creating more work for already stretched security teams. What Hoxhunt expanded SAT delivers * AI-automated customization: Content Studio turns internal policies and existing materials into editable, on-brand lessons in under five minutes, ready for admin review. Administrators retain control over editing, audience selection and publishing. * Fresh, expanded training coverage: More than 300+ video and text modules address security fundamentals, emerging threats and compliance requirements including PCI DSS, HIPAA, DORA and GDPR. Interactive exercises and quiz formats provide additional variety. * Locally relevant content: AI-powered translation with admin review supports more than 40 languages, reducing the manual work and cultural mismatch created by English-only, US-centric training. * Automated program management: Enrollment, reminders, manager escalations and completion tracking can be automated, while training can be tailored by role, department, location and risk. "Most security teams don't need another warehouse of generic content. They need an endless supply of relevant training without an endless workload," said Mika Aalto, co-founder and CEO of Hoxhunt. "Hoxhunt was built to adapt to people long before AI was cool. The new AI-powered SAT puts that foundation to work across the full awareness program - creating fresh content, localizing it, automating delivery and giving employees realistic practice for social engineering beyond email." Five major companies won prestigious CSO50 awards in 2026 for Security Awareness Training and Human Risk Management programs powered by the latest Hoxhunt capabilities. About Hoxhunt Hoxhunt is a Human Risk Management platform that helps security leaders and employees join forces to prevent data breaches. Hoxhunt combines AI and behavioral science to consolidate signal data, take timely actions on risky activities, and gamify individualized micro-training experiences that people love. As employees learn to detect and report advanced phishing attacks, operations teams can respond at machine speed to incidents, and transform security culture with limited resources. Security leaders shine with outcome-driven metrics that document reduced cybersecurity risk. Hoxhunt works with leading global companies such as Airbus, Uber, Monster Energy, Qualcomm, Docusign, Nokia, AES, AirAsia, and E.ON, and partners with leading global cybersecurity companies such as Microsoft and Deloitte. DRJ HOT ITEMS BC/DR rules & regulations. BC glossary. Webinar Spotlight

PR Newswire

Aug 20th, 2026

Hoxhunt launches free 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Toolkit with Caitlin "Cyber Girl" Sarian.

Hoxhunt launches free 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Toolkit with Caitlin "Cyber Girl" Sarian. Aug 20, 2026, 09:00 ET "Cybersecurity is a team sport" campaign-in-a-box gives awareness leaders four weeks of ready-to-use content built for today's threats MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Hoxhunt, the human risk management platform, today launched its free 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Toolkit, a ready-to-run campaign designed to help security awareness leaders deliver an engaging, relevant and measurable October program without adding to their workload or budget. Built around the theme "Cybersecurity is a team sport," the toolkit turns current threat intelligence into a coordinated four-week campaign that organizations can adapt to their culture, platforms and schedule. It is available free to security awareness professionals here. "October is the World Cup for security awareness teams, but too often they're expected to deliver a great campaign without extra people or budget," said Mika Aalto, co-founder and CEO of Hoxhunt. "We made this toolkit as a gift to the community - practical content that gets the whole organization practicing together. Cybersecurity is a team sport, and the strongest teams build good instincts before the pressure is on." The campaign follows a simple training arc inspired by team sports: * Week 1 - Warm Up: Build Your Security Foundations * Week 2 - Agility Training: Train Your Security Reflexes * Week 3 - Strength Training: Face the Heavyweights * Week 4 - Game Day: Make the Right Play Each week includes editable communications for email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and intranet platforms, along with portrait and landscape infographics, short educational videos and interactive challenges. The materials address timely risks including AI-enabled deception, deepfakes, spear phishing and social engineering beyond email. Ready-to-use challenges include no-setup mini-games that do not require a Hoxhunt account, as well as facilitator-led activities that teams can run themselves. The 2026 campaign features Caitlin "Cyber Girl" Sarian, a cybersecurity educator and content creator, in a motivational video encouraging employees to treat security like any other team discipline: learn the fundamentals, practice together and make the right play when it matters. Security awareness expert Anthony Davis also appears in the toolkit's educational video series. "As a former competitive athlete, I know you don't win by reading the playbook. You win by putting in the reps," said Sarian. "I'm teaming up with Hoxhunt because this free toolkit is built on one rule: cybersecurity is a team sport." The toolkit is designed as a flexible menu rather than a rigid curriculum. Awareness leaders can deploy the full four-week program or select the assets that best support their existing campaign. The toolkit draws on real threats reported by Hoxhunt users worldwide. That same data feeds the Hoxhunt platform and shapes the company's annual Phishing Trends Report. Download the free Hoxhunt Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 Toolkit at https://hoxhunt.com/cybersecurity-awareness-month-toolkit-2026. About Hoxhunt Hoxhunt is a Human Risk Management platform that helps security leaders and employees join forces to prevent data breaches. Hoxhunt combines AI and behavioral science to consolidate signal data, take timely actions on risky activities, and gamify individualized micro-training experiences that people love. As employees learn to detect and report advanced phishing attacks, operations teams are equipped to respond fast and transform security culture with limited resources. Security leaders shine with outcome-driven metrics that document reduced cybersecurity risk. Hoxhunt works with leading global companies such as Airbus, Uber, Monster Energy, Qualcomm, Docusign, Nokia, AES, Air Asia, and E.on, and partners with leading global cybersecurity companies such as Microsoft and Deloitte. Media Contact Christian Morley ICR for Hoxhunt [email protected] SOURCE Hoxhunt

Hoxhunt

Account Executive

About the job

Our mission and why it matters

About this role

What you’ll do

What success looks like

What we’re looking for

Bonus Points

Who you’ll work with

What you can expect from us

About Hoxhunt

About the company

Get referred to Hoxhunt

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

What critics are saying

What makes Hoxhunt unique

Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth