Full-Time

Enterprise Account Executive

Updated on 5/7/2026

Opal

Opal

51-200 employees

Access governance platform enforcing least privilege

Compensation Overview

$260k - $300k/yr

+ Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Requirements
  • 5+ years of quota-carrying field sales experience in a fast-paced and competitive market
  • Consistent track record of landing net new logos
  • Strong track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas
  • Experience selling complex enterprise software, security and infrastructure management preferred
  • Strong executive presence, listening skills, and experience selling into the C-suite
  • Curious and highly driven self-starter with start-up experience
Responsibilities
  • Define and execute sales strategies to meet and exceed assigned quota
  • Manage the full sales cycle through prospecting, qualifying, managing POVs, and closing opportunities
  • Partner with your CSM and SE counterparts to build strong partnerships, deliver continuous value, identity upsell opportunities, and ensure timely renewals for our customers
  • Acquire and maintain knowledge of the access management industry and emerging competitive landscape
  • Collaborate with the GTM team on sales best practices, key learnings of the industry and trends, and iterations of messaging and sales assets for pipeline generation and management
  • Be a voice for the customer/prospect with internal teams including Sales Engineering/POV team, Product and Marketing to ensure appropriate prioritization
  • Document your results and maintain accurate data across all sales systems
Desired Qualifications
  • 5+ years of quota-carrying field sales experience in a fast-paced and competitive market
  • Consistent track record of landing net new logos
  • Strong track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas
  • Experience selling complex enterprise software, security and infrastructure management preferred
  • Strong executive presence, listening skills, and experience selling into the C-suite
  • Curious and highly driven self-starter with start-up experience

Opal.dev provides an access management platform for IT and infrastructure teams to enforce the principle of least privilege. The product automates access requests, delegates approvals to system owners, and offers visualization tools with an end-to-end audit trail for Just-In-Time (JIT) access, helping compliance teams meet regulatory requirements. It can be delivered as a cloud service via subscription, with an option for self-hosting to meet data sovereignty needs. Opal generates revenue by charging for its scalable access management platform and related workflows, and has raised funding to accelerate growth. Compared with competitors, Opal emphasizes a clear audit trail, JIT access, least-privilege enforcement, and flexible deployment (including self-hosting), focusing on security plus productivity. The company’s goal is to help IT and security teams manage access to sensitive systems more securely and efficiently while supporting regulatory compliance and scalable governance.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$33.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $22M Series B from Battery Ventures in December 2023 fuels product expansion.
  • AWS Marketplace and PagerDuty integrations embed Opal in DevOps workflows.
  • Self-hosting captures finance and healthcare with data sovereignty needs.

What critics are saying

  • Acurity's policy-as-code engine erodes Opal's differentiation in 6-12 months.
  • Okta Workflows commoditize JIT access, slashing Opal subscriptions in 12-18 months.
  • Google Vertex AI replicates Paladin free for GCP users in 3-6 months.

What makes Opal unique

  • Paladin AI agent autonomously approves access requests using identity and history.
  • OpalScript codifies access policies in Python-like language for engineers.
  • OpalQuery enables natural language queries on access data for compliance.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

25%
Business Wire
Mar 19th, 2026
Opal Security launches AI access governance platform to tackle 40,000+ unused permissions crisis

Opal Security has launched three AI-native capabilities forming the industry's first unified platform for access governance. The launch centres on Paladin, an AI access evaluation agent that autonomously reviews and approves access requests by examining identity, history, and justification, operating as a first-class reviewer with decision authority. The platform includes OpalScript, a Python-like policy language for codifying access logic, and OpalQuery, an AI-powered tool for exploring access data using natural language queries. Together, they enable organisations to see, encode and enforce access policies. The launch follows Opal Labs' report revealing that 48.6% of employees hold at least one unused entitlement for over three months, with over 40,000 active access assignments remaining unused. Auto-granted access is 50% more likely to go unused than manually reviewed access.

Gazeti B.V.
Dec 7th, 2023
Opal Security, which helps companies manage access and identities, raises $22M

Opal Security, which helps companies manage access and identities, raises $22M.

TechCrunch
Dec 7th, 2023
Opal Security, which helps companies manage access and identities, raises $22M | TechCrunch

Opal Security, a startup building a platform for managing access and identities across organizations, has raised $22 million in a venture round.

Opal Security
Feb 22nd, 2023
Announcing Opal’s AWS Marketplace listing and integration | Opal

Opal has partnered with PagerDuty to build a new solution.

Business Wire
Jun 7th, 2022
Opal Launches With $10M Series A Funding Round Led By Greylock To Protect Enterprises From Over-Provisioned Access

NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opal announced today that they have closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Greylock.