Full-Time

Account Manager

Posted on 10/31/2025

Cyera

Cyera

1,001-5,000 employees

AI-powered cloud data discovery and protection

No salary listed

Chicago, IL, USA

Hybrid

Category
Sales & Account Management (5)
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Required Skills
Sales
Salesforce
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Minimum 1–2 years of experience in renewals, sales, or customer success
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple accounts and priorities
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills
  • Executive presence with the ability to confidently engage senior stakeholders
  • Strong presentation abilities and creative problem-solving mindset
  • Excellent time management and organizational capabilities
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • A “relationship-first” mindset: naturally curious, empathetic, and driven to help customers succeed
  • Experience using CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) and analytics tools to track performance and drive strategy
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment with remote teams
Responsibilities
  • Lead the end-to-end renewals process, ensuring timely closure and high retention rates
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with decision-makers and champions across your accounts
  • Identify, qualify, and close expansion opportunities in partnership with Account Executives
  • Leverage CRM and reporting tools to surface insights and risks, enabling proactive customer engagement
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Deal Desk, Operations, and Customer Success to drive seamless renewal cycles
  • Negotiate terms with procurement and legal stakeholders, balancing customer needs with business objectives
  • Provide clear, professional, and compelling communication both written and verbal across internal and external stakeholders
  • Manage time effectively across a high volume of accounts and deadlines
  • Serve as a customer advocate, championing service excellence and long-term satisfaction
  • We will require approximately 25% travel as part of the role.

Cyera is a cloud-based data security platform that gives organizations full visibility into their sensitive data across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. It uses artificial intelligence to discover, analyze, and classify data across a client’s entire data landscape without requiring agents. The product continuously scans and secures cloud data via native APIs, enabling rapid deployment and cost-effective operation. Compared with competitors, Cyera stands out by being agentless and cloud-native, offering automated, AI-driven data classification and risk prioritization that reduces manual security work and speeds response to threats. The company’s goal is to help customers prevent data breaches and leaks by understanding where data lives, how it’s used, who can access it, and which configurations to adjust to mitigate risk.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series F

Total Funding

$1.7B

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Ryft acquisition integrates AI-ready data lake capabilities, enabling unified agent data governance platform.
  • Stripe CFO Steffan Tomlinson joins board, bringing enterprise scaling expertise during rapid AI adoption.
  • Cohesity partnership extends DSPM reach to 95% precision visibility across petabytes in minutes.

What critics are saying

  • Cohesity embedding Cyera's DSPM reduces standalone pricing power and customer lock-in within 12 months.
  • $9B valuation demands $1B ARR by 2027; growth slowdown triggers down round or layoffs.
  • Wiz acquires competing DSPM player, leveraging $12B+ war chest to undercut Cyera's multi-cloud offering.

What makes Cyera unique

  • AI-native DSPM platform discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises without agents.
  • Browser Shield for AI controls data access at prompt level, addressing enterprise AI security gaps uniquely.
  • FedRAMP High 'In Process' status positions Cyera for US federal agencies amid AI adoption surge.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

4%
Business Wire
Apr 2nd, 2026
Cyera achieves FedRAMP High "In Process" status to help US agencies secure AI adoption

Cyera, an AI security platform, has achieved FedRAMP High "In Process" designation, advancing towards full authorisation under the US government's most rigorous standards for high-impact data. The company is launching Cyera for Government to help federal agencies secure AI deployment. The platform provides visibility and control over sensitive data across hybrid environments, automatically discovering and classifying information to ensure compliance with federal standards including OMB M-25-21. It addresses the challenge of AI agents and employees accessing, copying and moving controlled unclassified information across systems. Cyera is valued at $9 billion and has raised over $1.7 billion from investors including Accel, Blackstone, Sequoia and Lightspeed. The company already partners with major enterprises including Paramount, Chipotle and Valvoline.

Truth in IT
Mar 26th, 2026
Cyera raises $400M at $9B valuation to scale data and AI security

Cyera has raised $400 million in a Series F funding round at a $9 billion valuation, tripling its value from a year ago. The round positions the data and AI security company as a key enabler for enterprises seeking to adopt AI technologies safely. CFO Joe Iantosca said the capital will be invested heavily in product development to address the rapidly evolving threat landscape. Cyera helps organisations secure data that feeds AI models whilst protecting against threats from malicious actors also using AI tools. The company has expanded internationally into 15 markets and grown to 1,100 employees globally, with further aggressive expansion planned. Cyera addresses the boardroom question facing enterprises worldwide: how to leverage AI for business advancement whilst maintaining security.

Business Wire
Mar 10th, 2026
Cohesity partners with $9B Cyera to launch AI-powered DSPM for enterprise cyber resilience

Cohesity has launched Cohesity Data Security Posture Management, powered by Cyera, to address AI-related data risks. The solution combines data discovery, classification and protection to help organisations manage sensitive data across cloud, SaaS and AI workflows. The platform uses agentless scanning and AI-powered classification to deliver 95% precision visibility across petabytes of data within minutes. It continuously monitors sensitive data and provides security teams with a centralised view of risks, enabling prioritised remediation before incidents occur. The partnership integrates Cyera's AI security platform with Cohesity's cyber resilience platform, closing the loop from discovery to protection and recovery. Cyera, valued at $9 billion with over $1.7 billion in funding from investors including Accel, Sequoia and Lightspeed, is trusted by numerous Fortune 1000 companies.

TechCrunch
Jan 9th, 2026
Data security startup Cyera hits $9B valuation six months after being valued at $6B | TechCrunch

Cyera raised another $400 million just six months after its last huge round.

Surperformance
Dec 17th, 2025
Blackstone leads $400M investment in data-security firm Cyera at $9B valuation

Blackstone is leading a $400 million investment in data-security firm Cyera, valuing the New York-based company at $9 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The funding marks a significant valuation for the data-security startup, though further details about the investment were not immediately available.

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