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Yubico is a global leader in identity security and creator of the YubiKey, the original hardware-backed passkey. We are publicly traded on Nasdaq Stockholm; our global footprint includes headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Silicon Valley, California; and Singapore.
Why Join Our Mission?
At Yubico, We Are Guided By a Shared Belief That Your Work Matters. We Operate Under a Cultural Philosophy Of Speed With Integrity, Pushing The Boundaries Of Technology To Secure The AI Frontier—protecting Both Human And Agentic AI Interactions—and Leading The Transition To Post-quantum Cryptography. In Everything We Do, We Live By Our Core Values:
Battle Friction: We constantly look for new ways to simplify our products, our work, and the user experience.
Inspire Higher: We think big, champion the open internet, and strive to do the right thing even when it is difficult.
* One Team: We are open, responsive, and collaborative, overcoming challenges and celebrating our successes together.
Aligned with our commitment to open standards, we foster a thriving builder ecosystem through the Yubico Developer Program, offering free open-source repositories, libraries, and SDKs to help developers rapidly integrate strong hardware authentication into any application. Through close collaborations with technical partners like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as newer frontiers like OpenAI, we continue to shape a safer digital world while donating security keys to protect vulnerable communities, journalists, and humanitarian groups worldwide through our Secure it Forward program.
At Yubico, We Offer
Freedom and Flexibility: At Yubico, we want you to be your most productive selves whether you decide to work 100% from home or choose to work hybrid/onsite. The way we balance the fast-paced demands of a high-growth company and sustainability is making rest a priority.
Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. In support of this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion, help build community and connection across Yubico which all employees are welcome to join. Additionally, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world.
Social Connection: Relationships and connectedness matter, and we love spending time with our team! Our virtual workspace keeps us connected day-to-day whether it's through Yubico celebrating wins or our buzzing Slack communities.
The Role
Cybercrime is the biggest threat that companies face today. Yubico has become the global standard for combating cyber attacks with phishing-resistant authentication at scale. The great news is that Yubico has been adopted by 9 of the top 10 technology firms; some of the largest financial institutions, manufacturing companies, retail/hospitality, and healthcare organizations also use Yubico. We need help to expand even further. Yubico is looking for a dynamic, experienced Account Director to join our expanding enterprise sales team. This individual will work with our rapidly growing customer base and new business prospects to drive Yubico revenue and enterprise utilization. We welcome a strong, detailed individual who has deep knowledge of the enterprise market. Revenue booked is a critical measure, but this role is so much more. It's also about changing the world and bringing trust back into our digital world for customers, partners, and their customers.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Develop and execute your strategic and tactical business plan to drive revenue and large scale adoption of Yubico products and services within a set of named accounts
- Own the revenue number (sell to and sell through) for your area through:
+ New customer acquisition, be willing to hunt
+ Expand existing relationships within a set of installed base of accounts
+ Define and land new strategic relationships
+ Provide thought leadership to customers and, when available, at industry events
+ Partner with Yubico Channel Managers for re-sale of Yubico solutions
- Develop strong champions who actively advocate for Yubico
- Work directly with BDR and Customer Success for customer lifecycle management
- Coordinate with internal resources in a dynamically growing business to deliver an outstanding customer experience
- When required, work collaboratively with Solution Engineering to develop complex solutions
- Reporting to the VP Sales
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in a similar role
- Ability to build and manage your territory pulling in resources as needed
- Deep understanding and experience in selling technology to enterprise customers
- Understanding of cybersecurity concepts and marketplace; Identity & Access Management (IAM) is a plus for this role though not required
- Positive influence on your teammates and uplift the team around you
- Track record of overachievement in selling, in both direct sales and through partners and SI’s
- Comfortable having both business and high-level technical conversations with a CTO, CIO, or CISO
- Consistently overachieve your goals
- This position is an individual contributor and field sales role
Our U.S. benefits are designed for your overall well-being:
Health coverage. We’ve got you covered with top of the line health plans, including dental and vision. We pay 100% of your premium and 85% for your family.
Retirement plan. Our retirement plan includes a 401K dollar per dollar match up to 6% with a cap of $6K/year. Immediate vesting.
Wellness reimbursement. We offer $1,200.00 in wellness earnings (prorated based on start date) that you can use on your gym membership, a massage, or your favorite online fitness classes. This is a taxable benefit if you choose to participate.
Learning and development. We encourage your professional growth and offer a yearly development stipend of $3,000 and mentorship program.
Time off. We offer a total of 15 vacation days plus 10 holidays, and 7 sick days a year.
Paid parental leave. We love welcoming new family members to our YubiTeam! All parents receive 8 weeks of paid leave. Birthing parents receive an additional 8 weeks of paid leave (16 weeks total).
Commuter Benefits. If you need to commute to the office, we offer commuter benefits.
Strong mission & company values. We’re a global team on a global mission to make the internet more secure for everyone. We believe that every person’s work matters. That you should always be nice, stay humble, and have fun, and never take yourself too seriously.
Yubico offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work. This role has the annual salary range as defined below plus a target compensation for a candidate located in the San Francisco Bay Area. For roles that are filled in other locations, the compensation range will be based on data provided by the Radford McLagan Compensation Database from Aon. Final compensation is also based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Sales Pay Range: $140,000 USD - $150,000 USD
Variable Compensation: $140,000 USD - $150,000 USD
OTE: $280,000 USD - $300,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer; we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
We'd love to learn about what you can add to our diverse team. We are an E-Verify Participating Employer. Yubico does not accept agency resumes or referrals so please do not send them to our careers staff or employees. Yubico is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes or referrals.
Personal data submitted through this form is used for managing Yubico’s recruitment activities, which include facilitating any application you make, setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing results and selecting candidates, and as otherwise needed in our recruitment and onboarding processes. The use of your personal data may also be necessary prior to entering into a contract with you (that is prior to offering you a job with Yubico). Your personal data will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with the Yubico Privacy Notice. We only keep your personal data for as long as necessary and in compliance with Yubico’s record retention policies. If you have asked us to, we will keep you informed of other opportunities at Yubico. We do this in various ways, including email and by phone. If at any time you do not want us to contact you or use your information as described herein please contact us at jobs@yubico.com to let us know and we will delete all such information. Providing your personal data is voluntary, but necessary to join our talent community, and if you do not agree to provide your data, we will not be able to consider you as part of our talent community.
As part of providing the requested service, we will transfer your data to be processed by Greenhouse Software Inc., a service provider contracted by Yubico AB and/or its subsidiaries that meets legally mandated privacy requirements. The Yubico Privacy Notice offers more information about Yubico privacy practices, including the lawful basis for processing of personal data, how to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, and how to contact Yubico to exercise your data subject rights. In this notice, when we refer to "Yubico", "us", "we" or "our", we mean the Yubico group company or companies that you apply to, or correspond with, and which are responsible for any personal data collected about you.
Meet Yubico
Yubico is a global leader in identity security and creator of the YubiKey, the original hardware-backed passkey. We are publicly traded on Nasdaq Stockholm; our global footprint includes headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Silicon Valley, California; and Singapore.
Why Join Our Mission?
At Yubico, We Are Guided By a Shared Belief That Your Work Matters. We Operate Under a Cultural Philosophy Of Speed With Integrity, Pushing The Boundaries Of Technology To Secure The AI Frontier—protecting Both Human And Agentic AI Interactions—and Leading The Transition To Post-quantum Cryptography. In Everything We Do, We Live By Our Core Values:
Battle Friction: We constantly look for new ways to simplify our products, our work, and the user experience.
Inspire Higher: We think big, champion the open internet, and strive to do the right thing even when it is difficult.
* One Team: We are open, responsive, and collaborative, overcoming challenges and celebrating our successes together.
Aligned with our commitment to open standards, we foster a thriving builder ecosystem through the Yubico Developer Program, offering free open-source repositories, libraries, and SDKs to help developers rapidly integrate strong hardware authentication into any application. Through close collaborations with technical partners like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as newer frontiers like OpenAI, we continue to shape a safer digital world while donating security keys to protect vulnerable communities, journalists, and humanitarian groups worldwide through our Secure it Forward program.
At Yubico, We Offer
Freedom and Flexibility: At Yubico, we want you to be your most productive selves whether you decide to work 100% from home or choose to work hybrid/onsite. The way we balance the fast-paced demands of a high-growth company and sustainability is making rest a priority.
Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. In support of this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion, help build community and connection across Yubico which all employees are welcome to join. Additionally, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world.
Social Connection: Relationships and connectedness matter, and we love spending time with our team! Our virtual workspace keeps us connected day-to-day whether it's through Yubico celebrating wins or our buzzing Slack communities.
The Role
Cybercrime is the biggest threat that companies face today. Yubico has become the global standard for combating cyber attacks with phishing-resistant authentication at scale. The great news is that Yubico has been adopted by 9 of the top 10 technology firms; some of the largest financial institutions, manufacturing companies, retail/hospitality, and healthcare organizations also use Yubico. We need help to expand even further. Yubico is looking for a dynamic, experienced Account Director to join our expanding enterprise sales team. This individual will work with our rapidly growing customer base and new business prospects to drive Yubico revenue and enterprise utilization. We welcome a strong, detailed individual who has deep knowledge of the enterprise market. Revenue booked is a critical measure, but this role is so much more. It's also about changing the world and bringing trust back into our digital world for customers, partners, and their customers.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Develop and execute your strategic and tactical business plan to drive revenue and large scale adoption of Yubico products and services within a set of named accounts
- Own the revenue number (sell to and sell through) for your area through:
+ New customer acquisition, be willing to hunt
+ Expand existing relationships within a set of installed base of accounts
+ Define and land new strategic relationships
+ Provide thought leadership to customers and, when available, at industry events
+ Partner with Yubico Channel Managers for re-sale of Yubico solutions
- Develop strong champions who actively advocate for Yubico
- Work directly with BDR and Customer Success for customer lifecycle management
- Coordinate with internal resources in a dynamically growing business to deliver an outstanding customer experience
- When required, work collaboratively with Solution Engineering to develop complex solutions
- Reporting to the VP Sales
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in a similar role
- Ability to build and manage your territory pulling in resources as needed
- Deep understanding and experience in selling technology to enterprise customers
- Understanding of cybersecurity concepts and marketplace; Identity & Access Management (IAM) is a plus for this role though not required
- Positive influence on your teammates and uplift the team around you
- Track record of overachievement in selling, in both direct sales and through partners and SI’s
- Comfortable having both business and high-level technical conversations with a CTO, CIO, or CISO
- Consistently overachieve your goals
- This position is an individual contributor and field sales role
Our U.S. benefits are designed for your overall well-being:
Health coverage. We’ve got you covered with top of the line health plans, including dental and vision. We pay 100% of your premium and 85% for your family.
Retirement plan. Our retirement plan includes a 401K dollar per dollar match up to 6% with a cap of $6K/year. Immediate vesting.
Wellness reimbursement. We offer $1,200.00 in wellness earnings (prorated based on start date) that you can use on your gym membership, a massage, or your favorite online fitness classes. This is a taxable benefit if you choose to participate.
Learning and development. We encourage your professional growth and offer a yearly development stipend of $3,000 and mentorship program.
Time off. We offer a total of 15 vacation days plus 10 holidays, and 7 sick days a year.
Paid parental leave. We love welcoming new family members to our YubiTeam! All parents receive 8 weeks of paid leave. Birthing parents receive an additional 8 weeks of paid leave (16 weeks total).
Commuter Benefits. If you need to commute to the office, we offer commuter benefits.
Strong mission & company values. We’re a global team on a global mission to make the internet more secure for everyone. We believe that every person’s work matters. That you should always be nice, stay humble, and have fun, and never take yourself too seriously.
Yubico offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work. This role has the annual salary range as defined below plus a target compensation for a candidate located in the San Francisco Bay Area. For roles that are filled in other locations, the compensation range will be based on data provided by the Radford McLagan Compensation Database from Aon. Final compensation is also based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Sales Pay Range: $140,000 USD - $150,000 USD
Variable Compensation: $140,000 USD - $150,000 USD
OTE: $280,000 USD - $300,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer; we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
We'd love to learn about what you can add to our diverse team. We are an E-Verify Participating Employer. Yubico does not accept agency resumes or referrals so please do not send them to our careers staff or employees. Yubico is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes or referrals.
Personal data submitted through this form is used for managing Yubico’s recruitment activities, which include facilitating any application you make, setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing results and selecting candidates, and as otherwise needed in our recruitment and onboarding processes. The use of your personal data may also be necessary prior to entering into a contract with you (that is prior to offering you a job with Yubico). Your personal data will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with the Yubico Privacy Notice. We only keep your personal data for as long as necessary and in compliance with Yubico’s record retention policies. If you have asked us to, we will keep you informed of other opportunities at Yubico. We do this in various ways, including email and by phone. If at any time you do not want us to contact you or use your information as described herein please contact us at jobs@yubico.com to let us know and we will delete all such information. Providing your personal data is voluntary, but necessary to join our talent community, and if you do not agree to provide your data, we will not be able to consider you as part of our talent community.
As part of providing the requested service, we will transfer your data to be processed by Greenhouse Software Inc., a service provider contracted by Yubico AB and/or its subsidiaries that meets legally mandated privacy requirements. The Yubico Privacy Notice offers more information about Yubico privacy practices, including the lawful basis for processing of personal data, how to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, and how to contact Yubico to exercise your data subject rights. In this notice, when we refer to "Yubico", "us", "we" or "our", we mean the Yubico group company or companies that you apply to, or correspond with, and which are responsible for any personal data collected about you.
Account Director Job Roles in Illinois
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Search Account Director Jobs in IllinoisAccount Director Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies sponsor visas for account directors in Illinois?
Chicago-based agencies and enterprise technology firms are among the most active sponsors for account director roles in Illinois. Advertising holding companies such as Publicis and IPG, management consultancies, and B2B SaaS companies headquartered in the Chicago metro regularly file H-1B visa petitions for senior account management positions. Large financial services firms and healthcare technology companies in the area also sponsor for this level of client leadership role.
Which visa types are most common for account director roles in Illinois?
The H-1B is the most common visa category for account directors in Illinois, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field such as marketing, business administration, or communications. Candidates from Australia may qualify for the E-3 visa, and Canadian and Mexican nationals can explore the TN visa under the business person category. L-1A transfers are also used when candidates move intracompany into Illinois-based director positions.
Which cities in Illinois have the most account director sponsorship jobs?
Chicago accounts for the overwhelming majority of account director sponsorship opportunities in Illinois. The Loop, River North, and the Fulton Market district are particularly concentrated with agencies, technology firms, and professional services companies that hire at the director level. Suburban areas such as Downers Grove, Schaumburg, and Oak Brook also have corporate headquarters that occasionally sponsor for senior account roles, particularly in manufacturing and healthcare sectors.
How to find account director visa sponsorship jobs in Illinois?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find account director roles in Illinois where employers are open to visa sponsorship. The platform filters jobs specifically by sponsorship willingness, so you can focus on Chicago agencies, enterprise tech firms, and professional services companies without sorting through listings that won't consider international candidates. Filtering by the account director title and Illinois state on Migrate Mate surfaces the most relevant opportunities.
Are there any Illinois-specific considerations for account directors seeking visa sponsorship?
Illinois employers sponsoring H-1B workers for account director roles must meet Department of Labor prevailing wage requirements for the Chicago metropolitan area, which reflects the city's relatively high cost of living. Chicago's concentration of advertising, finance, and technology firms creates genuine demand for experienced account directors, but sponsorship at the director level typically requires candidates to demonstrate several years of directly relevant client management experience. University programs at Northwestern and the University of Illinois also feed talent pipelines into Chicago agencies and tech companies.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored account director jobs in Illinois?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.