National Account Sales Jobs in California
National Account Sales jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in consumer packaged goods, technology, healthcare distribution, and retail wholesale sectors across seniority levels from entry-level account coordinators through senior national account directors. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego are the primary hiring metros, home to major employers with lasting California operations including PepsiCo, AmerisourceBergen, and Sysco. The most in-demand specialties are key account management within grocery and pharmacy retail, technology channel sales, and healthcare supply chain accounts. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Securitas Technology Corporation is a division of Securitas AB, the largest protective services provider in the world with over 370,000+ Securitas Heroes across the world.
We offer a full portfolio of video, access, intrusion, fire and integrated systems and services. As a leading systems integrator and alarm monitoring company, we deliver the STC Difference, serving countless long-term clients with solutions and services that protect their people, customers, and assets.
Sales professionals, are you interested in furthering your career with an industry leader that continues to experience strong market growth? Join our team at STC. We are one of the largest security providers in the world, featuring best-in-class products and award-winning services customized to meet the specific needs of our clients. Due to the continued growth of our Electronic Security group and our dedicated focus on the Utilities and Critical Infrastructure market, we are currently seeking an Sr. Enterprise Account Executive – Utilities / Critical Infrastructure to help us expand our business across the U.S. electrical utilities sector.
This is a national, home-office-based sales role with an emphasis on new logo development, executive relationship building, funded pilot creation, and multi-site expansion within regulated utility accounts. This role will sell into electric, water and gas investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, generation companies, transmission and distribution operators, power plants, and substations, with a specific focus on electric regulated Tier 1-3 substations and CIP-014 High and Medium Impact sites.
The Enterprise Account Executive – Utilities / Critical Infrastructure will report to the Utilities Vertical Leader / Director of Vertical Markets and operate as part of a dedicated utilities vertical team. This is a peer-level or senior-level role relative to the National Enterprise Account Executive position, reflecting the specialized vertical mandate, national territory, regulatory fluency, and account complexity required for success.
Working from your home office, you will set appointments with and present our commercial electronic security products and services to utility executives, physical security leaders, NERC CIP compliance owners, engineering leaders, operations leaders, and other key stakeholders responsible for protecting critical infrastructure. This role requires a consultative, risk-based sales approach focused on helping utilities move from a traditional “Guards with Guns” posture to a “Technology Forward” security posture supported by integrated technology, remote services, and scalable multi-site programs.
We offer a generous base salary plus competitive commission on product sales, as well as recurring revenue on our service packages. What’s more, our world-class staff will take care of designing your clients’ systems, leaving you free to do what you do best.
If this sounds like the direction in which you’ve been wanting to take your enterprise security sales career, and if you meet our qualifications, we want to talk with you!
Essential Functions:
- As an Enterprise Account Executive – Utilities / Critical Infrastructure, you must combine a hunter’s drive to gain new accounts and attract market share with the ability to build trust inside long-cycle, committee-driven, compliance-triggered buying environments.
- Own the full U.S. electrical utilities vertical as a national territory, including investor-owned utilities, municipals, electric cooperatives, generation companies, transmission and distribution operators, power plants, and substations.
- Build and manage a target account plan focused on regulated Tier 1-3 substations, CIP-014 High and Medium Impact sites, power generation assets, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and other critical utility environments.
- Develop access to senior utility buyers and influencers, including utility executives, physical security directors, NERC CIP compliance owners, engineering leaders, operations leaders, safety leaders, and procurement stakeholders.
- Lead consultative discovery with utility clients to identify business continuity risks, compliance risk, site safety requirements, remote and dispersed site management challenges, and gaps created by disparate security systems that do not integrate.
- Position Securitas Technology’s end-to-end integrated portfolio, including intrusion, video, access control, perimeter detection, radar, LIDAR, cloud-enabled remote monitoring services, managed services, and the SecureStat HQ security management platform.
- Translate utility risk, compliance requirements, operating conditions, and budget drivers into practical security technology programs that can begin with funded pilots and expand into multi-site deployments.
- Develop business cases that connect security technology investments to risk reduction, compliance support, operational continuity, remote site visibility, service response, and long-term program scalability.
- Manage all aspects of assigned accounts, named targets, new opportunities, pilot programs, and expansion opportunities by maintaining sales activity and relevant customer information using the CRM application.
- Review account activities and performance with existing utility customers to identify growth opportunities, service issues, budget timing, contract cycles, rate case considerations, technology refresh cycles, and regulatory events that may create security investment needs.
- Identify operational issues that might have arisen or may arise in utility accounts and resolve them with the appropriate internal teams.
- Develop and implement new and existing sales strategies to grow and expand opportunities within current customer accounts, including utilities with existing guarding relationships, technology relationships, or local branch relationships.
- Develop a sales approach with the Utilities Vertical Leader / Director of Vertical Markets designed to identify needs beyond the prospect’s known requirements and target areas of higher risk, regulatory exposure, and operational challenge.
- Provide effective and differentiated sales presentations to prospective utility customers, including executive-level presentations, pilot proposals, program expansion plans, and RFI/RFP presentations.
- Work with solution architects, Core Commercial Sales teams, and Field Sales Engineers to complete site surveys for power plants, substations, control environments, corporate sites, and other utility facilities.
- Partner with Field Sales Engineers and solution architects on system design, scope development, site safety requirements, access protocols, technical validation, and customer-facing solution recommendations.
- Work with local reps to gain key information and develop rapport with local utility contacts, field operations leaders, plant contacts, substation contacts, and regional stakeholders.
- Responsible for all areas of the customer relationship as the single point of contact for utility account needs in partnership with the dedicated vertical team.
- Work with the appropriate internal team members to resolve customer problems, including invoices, service, access, monitoring, project delivery, system performance, and account coordination.
- Evaluate, lead, and complete RFI and RFP requests for utility and critical infrastructure opportunities, utilizing cross-functional resources within the organization as needed.
- Support Securitas Technology’s utilities vertical growth strategy by helping identify priority accounts, funded pilot candidates, existing client expansion opportunities, and repeatable sales plays within the market.
- Build credibility in the utilities market through informed customer conversations around NERC CIP, CIP-014, physical security requirements, infrastructure risk, remote site realities, and the move toward integrated technology programs.
- Travel nationally to customer sites, substations, power plants, industry events, planning meetings, site surveys, executive presentations, and internal strategy sessions. Travel is expected to be 50% or more based on customer and business needs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in enterprise sales, national account sales, critical infrastructure sales, utility sales, energy sector sales, industrial technology sales, or integrated security solutions.
- Prior experience selling consultative service solutions, physical security technology, integrated systems, managed services, or complex technology programs into large enterprise or infrastructure customers.
- Minimum 5 years of experience attaining or exceeding high sales quotas in comparable accounts and/or markets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop new logos, open executive doors, create demand, and expand wallet share across complex, multi-stakeholder accounts.
- Experience selling into or around regulated environments, such as electrical utilities, energy, critical infrastructure, industrial operations, transportation, government, data centers, telecommunications, or other compliance-driven markets.
- Working knowledge of NERC CIP and CIP-014 preferred. Candidates without direct NERC CIP experience must demonstrate the ability to learn technical regulatory frameworks and sell effectively where compliance, risk, and audit readiness influence buying decisions.
- Ability to understand and discuss utility buyer concerns related to High and Medium Impact sites, substations, power plants, remote facilities, business continuity, site safety, and dispersed asset management.
- Proven ability to sell into long-cycle, committee-driven buying processes involving executives, security, compliance, engineering, operations, procurement, legal, and field stakeholders.
- Experience leading funded pilots, proof-of-concept programs, phased deployments, or multi-site expansion programs.
- Ability to position integrated solutions across intrusion, video, access control, perimeter detection, LIDAR, remote monitoring, managed services, and platform-based security management.
- Proven ability to lead RFI and RFP responses, coordinate internal resources, and manage customer-facing proposal strategy.
- Strong business acumen, negotiation skills, and outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven negotiation acumen.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement comprehensive service, account, and program growth strategies.
- Ability to work effectively inside a dedicated vertical team, including partnership with the Utilities Vertical Leader, solution architects, Field Sales Engineers, local sales teams, operations, project management, monitoring, and service teams.
- Ability to operate independently from a home office while managing a national territory, complex account plans, frequent travel, and multiple customer pursuits.
- Availability of 50% or more travel within the national territory.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, High School or GED required.
Benefits:
- Highly competitive salary
- Attractive variable compensation plan
- Company training and industry leading certification program
- Auto Allowance Program
- Company Cell Phone
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- 401K with 60% Match up to 6% of salary
- Paid vacation, holiday and sick time
- Educational Assistance
- Exceptional growth opportunities
- Wide variety of employee discounts on travel, equipment, and more!
We are a nationwide provider of security solutions and an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. Our core values of Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness are proudly demonstrated daily by our employees to our customers and the communities we service.
Securitas Technology Corporation is a division of Securitas AB, the largest protective services provider in the world with over 370,000+ Securitas Heroes across the world.
We offer a full portfolio of video, access, intrusion, fire and integrated systems and services. As a leading systems integrator and alarm monitoring company, we deliver the STC Difference, serving countless long-term clients with solutions and services that protect their people, customers, and assets.
Sales professionals, are you interested in furthering your career with an industry leader that continues to experience strong market growth? Join our team at STC. We are one of the largest security providers in the world, featuring best-in-class products and award-winning services customized to meet the specific needs of our clients. Due to the continued growth of our Electronic Security group and our dedicated focus on the Utilities and Critical Infrastructure market, we are currently seeking an Sr. Enterprise Account Executive – Utilities / Critical Infrastructure to help us expand our business across the U.S. electrical utilities sector.
This is a national, home-office-based sales role with an emphasis on new logo development, executive relationship building, funded pilot creation, and multi-site expansion within regulated utility accounts. This role will sell into electric, water and gas investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, cooperatives, generation companies, transmission and distribution operators, power plants, and substations, with a specific focus on electric regulated Tier 1-3 substations and CIP-014 High and Medium Impact sites.
The Enterprise Account Executive – Utilities / Critical Infrastructure will report to the Utilities Vertical Leader / Director of Vertical Markets and operate as part of a dedicated utilities vertical team. This is a peer-level or senior-level role relative to the National Enterprise Account Executive position, reflecting the specialized vertical mandate, national territory, regulatory fluency, and account complexity required for success.
Working from your home office, you will set appointments with and present our commercial electronic security products and services to utility executives, physical security leaders, NERC CIP compliance owners, engineering leaders, operations leaders, and other key stakeholders responsible for protecting critical infrastructure. This role requires a consultative, risk-based sales approach focused on helping utilities move from a traditional “Guards with Guns” posture to a “Technology Forward” security posture supported by integrated technology, remote services, and scalable multi-site programs.
We offer a generous base salary plus competitive commission on product sales, as well as recurring revenue on our service packages. What’s more, our world-class staff will take care of designing your clients’ systems, leaving you free to do what you do best.
If this sounds like the direction in which you’ve been wanting to take your enterprise security sales career, and if you meet our qualifications, we want to talk with you!
Essential Functions:
- As an Enterprise Account Executive – Utilities / Critical Infrastructure, you must combine a hunter’s drive to gain new accounts and attract market share with the ability to build trust inside long-cycle, committee-driven, compliance-triggered buying environments.
- Own the full U.S. electrical utilities vertical as a national territory, including investor-owned utilities, municipals, electric cooperatives, generation companies, transmission and distribution operators, power plants, and substations.
- Build and manage a target account plan focused on regulated Tier 1-3 substations, CIP-014 High and Medium Impact sites, power generation assets, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and other critical utility environments.
- Develop access to senior utility buyers and influencers, including utility executives, physical security directors, NERC CIP compliance owners, engineering leaders, operations leaders, safety leaders, and procurement stakeholders.
- Lead consultative discovery with utility clients to identify business continuity risks, compliance risk, site safety requirements, remote and dispersed site management challenges, and gaps created by disparate security systems that do not integrate.
- Position Securitas Technology’s end-to-end integrated portfolio, including intrusion, video, access control, perimeter detection, radar, LIDAR, cloud-enabled remote monitoring services, managed services, and the SecureStat HQ security management platform.
- Translate utility risk, compliance requirements, operating conditions, and budget drivers into practical security technology programs that can begin with funded pilots and expand into multi-site deployments.
- Develop business cases that connect security technology investments to risk reduction, compliance support, operational continuity, remote site visibility, service response, and long-term program scalability.
- Manage all aspects of assigned accounts, named targets, new opportunities, pilot programs, and expansion opportunities by maintaining sales activity and relevant customer information using the CRM application.
- Review account activities and performance with existing utility customers to identify growth opportunities, service issues, budget timing, contract cycles, rate case considerations, technology refresh cycles, and regulatory events that may create security investment needs.
- Identify operational issues that might have arisen or may arise in utility accounts and resolve them with the appropriate internal teams.
- Develop and implement new and existing sales strategies to grow and expand opportunities within current customer accounts, including utilities with existing guarding relationships, technology relationships, or local branch relationships.
- Develop a sales approach with the Utilities Vertical Leader / Director of Vertical Markets designed to identify needs beyond the prospect’s known requirements and target areas of higher risk, regulatory exposure, and operational challenge.
- Provide effective and differentiated sales presentations to prospective utility customers, including executive-level presentations, pilot proposals, program expansion plans, and RFI/RFP presentations.
- Work with solution architects, Core Commercial Sales teams, and Field Sales Engineers to complete site surveys for power plants, substations, control environments, corporate sites, and other utility facilities.
- Partner with Field Sales Engineers and solution architects on system design, scope development, site safety requirements, access protocols, technical validation, and customer-facing solution recommendations.
- Work with local reps to gain key information and develop rapport with local utility contacts, field operations leaders, plant contacts, substation contacts, and regional stakeholders.
- Responsible for all areas of the customer relationship as the single point of contact for utility account needs in partnership with the dedicated vertical team.
- Work with the appropriate internal team members to resolve customer problems, including invoices, service, access, monitoring, project delivery, system performance, and account coordination.
- Evaluate, lead, and complete RFI and RFP requests for utility and critical infrastructure opportunities, utilizing cross-functional resources within the organization as needed.
- Support Securitas Technology’s utilities vertical growth strategy by helping identify priority accounts, funded pilot candidates, existing client expansion opportunities, and repeatable sales plays within the market.
- Build credibility in the utilities market through informed customer conversations around NERC CIP, CIP-014, physical security requirements, infrastructure risk, remote site realities, and the move toward integrated technology programs.
- Travel nationally to customer sites, substations, power plants, industry events, planning meetings, site surveys, executive presentations, and internal strategy sessions. Travel is expected to be 50% or more based on customer and business needs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience in enterprise sales, national account sales, critical infrastructure sales, utility sales, energy sector sales, industrial technology sales, or integrated security solutions.
- Prior experience selling consultative service solutions, physical security technology, integrated systems, managed services, or complex technology programs into large enterprise or infrastructure customers.
- Minimum 5 years of experience attaining or exceeding high sales quotas in comparable accounts and/or markets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop new logos, open executive doors, create demand, and expand wallet share across complex, multi-stakeholder accounts.
- Experience selling into or around regulated environments, such as electrical utilities, energy, critical infrastructure, industrial operations, transportation, government, data centers, telecommunications, or other compliance-driven markets.
- Working knowledge of NERC CIP and CIP-014 preferred. Candidates without direct NERC CIP experience must demonstrate the ability to learn technical regulatory frameworks and sell effectively where compliance, risk, and audit readiness influence buying decisions.
- Ability to understand and discuss utility buyer concerns related to High and Medium Impact sites, substations, power plants, remote facilities, business continuity, site safety, and dispersed asset management.
- Proven ability to sell into long-cycle, committee-driven buying processes involving executives, security, compliance, engineering, operations, procurement, legal, and field stakeholders.
- Experience leading funded pilots, proof-of-concept programs, phased deployments, or multi-site expansion programs.
- Ability to position integrated solutions across intrusion, video, access control, perimeter detection, LIDAR, remote monitoring, managed services, and platform-based security management.
- Proven ability to lead RFI and RFP responses, coordinate internal resources, and manage customer-facing proposal strategy.
- Strong business acumen, negotiation skills, and outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven negotiation acumen.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement comprehensive service, account, and program growth strategies.
- Ability to work effectively inside a dedicated vertical team, including partnership with the Utilities Vertical Leader, solution architects, Field Sales Engineers, local sales teams, operations, project management, monitoring, and service teams.
- Ability to operate independently from a home office while managing a national territory, complex account plans, frequent travel, and multiple customer pursuits.
- Availability of 50% or more travel within the national territory.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, High School or GED required.
Benefits:
- Highly competitive salary
- Attractive variable compensation plan
- Company training and industry leading certification program
- Auto Allowance Program
- Company Cell Phone
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- 401K with 60% Match up to 6% of salary
- Paid vacation, holiday and sick time
- Educational Assistance
- Exceptional growth opportunities
- Wide variety of employee discounts on travel, equipment, and more!
We are a nationwide provider of security solutions and an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. Our core values of Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness are proudly demonstrated daily by our employees to our customers and the communities we service.
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in national account sales jobs across California.
- Proven experience managing large-scale national or regional accounts across multiple channels
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a directly related field
- Strong ability to negotiate contracts and close high-value deals with national retail or distributor partners
- Proficiency with CRM platforms such as Salesforce to manage pipeline and account reporting
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with supply chain, marketing, and finance teams
- Willingness to travel to customer sites, trade shows, and California regional offices as needed
National Account Sales Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a national account sales in California?
Most national account sales roles in California require a bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field, combined with prior sales or account management experience. California does not require a state-issued license for most national account sales positions. Employers typically look for candidates who have progressed from territory or regional sales roles, with a clear record of managing complex customer relationships and meeting revenue targets in competitive sectors like CPG, technology, or healthcare distribution.
How much do national account saleses make in California?
National account saleses in California earn a median of about $134,910 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $64,430 for the lowest 10% to over $300,580 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire national account saless in California?
Employers hiring national account saless in California right now include Keystone Technologies, Securitas Technology, and Yepoda, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. California's concentration of major CPG brands, technology companies, and healthcare distributors headquartered or regionally based in the state makes it one of the most active hiring markets for this role in the country.
Which California cities have the most national account sales jobs?
California, San Jose, and San Francisco have the most national account sales openings in California. Los Angeles leads due to its density of consumer goods companies, entertainment-adjacent retail accounts, and regional distribution hubs, while San Francisco and San Diego generate consistent demand from technology channel sales and life sciences distribution accounts anchored by major employers in those metros.
Are there remote national account sales jobs in California?
Yes, and more than many sales specialties, since national account management is relationship- and communication-driven rather than requiring daily on-site presence. About 94% of national account sales openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting flexibility from employers spread across large geographic territories. Strategic account planning, forecasting, and internal coordination work are the parts of the role most commonly done remotely.
How can I get hired as a national account sales in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is starting in a territory sales representative or inside sales role with a California-based consumer goods, technology, or healthcare distribution company and building toward national account responsibility. Large California employers such as PepsiCo, Sysco, and McKesson run structured sales development programs that accept candidates without prior national account experience. A bachelor's degree in business or marketing, strong CRM familiarity, and demonstrated performance in any quota-carrying sales role are the credentials that open the door fastest.
Where can I find and apply to national account sales jobs in California?
You can find and apply to national account sales jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings updated regularly. Find roles that fit your experience and target sector, then apply directly to the employer through the listing. No account creation is required to search and review open positions.
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