Vanta celebrates National Salesperson Day

At Vanta, our customers are core to everything we do. Our growing sales team partners with our customers to help them build mature security and compliance programs from the earliest of stages, while also working with Vanta’s internal teams to continuously improve our own products. We sat down with a few Vantan’s to learn what it’s like to be a member of a fast-growing sales organization, including getting smart on all things security, compliance, career growth, and the best parts about working at Vanta.

What makes selling Vanta unique to other products or services you’ve sold?

Vanta is unique because our product is built from personal pain, which leads to a true need for security leaders in the space today. Vanta is a need to have, meaning you need Vanta in order to do business with other businesses.  - Ashley

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Sales becomes a fun role when you believe your product makes the customer's life easier. It becomes a fulfilling role when you realize its impact goes far beyond that one customer. Every deal signed at Vanta can positively impact the data security of thousands of consumers. It's this ripple effect of doing good that makes selling Vanta a unique opportunity.  - Michelle Kidd

What was most helpful in learning the security and compliance landscape?

A mix of bringing on Head of Compliance experts that now work for Vanta, the resources Vanta provides for the reps, reading lots of reports, coffee and compliance chats with our audit partners, our managers, and a lot of self education (control F in slack to find answers to technical questions!) - Page

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There's a lot of great 101 content out there to help translate the security and compliance language, but what was most helpful was leaning on the expertise of the team. Everyone was so helpful in sharing what they know, making themselves accessible, and creating a comfortable environment to ask whatever I needed. - Michelle Kidd

What influenced you to join Vanta?

I remember talking with Eric (our Head of Sales) prior to joining and he described Vanta as a "need to have product." It sounded too good to be true, but I can attest now, it's totally true!  - Page

A lot of factors influenced me to join! Some to include are the leadership, product-market fit, our trajectory and massive growth, vision from the exec team for the future of Vanta, living up to our mission to protect the internet, Vanta's retention rate, and that we are the leaders in the space.  - Ashley

How would you describe Vanta’s Sales culture?

Vanta's Sales team is composed of highly intelligent and organizationally athletic individuals, but not a single one of them would tell you that about themselves. Beyond any other quality, the sales team is humble. They have each others' backs, they work hard to earn their spot every day, and they take time to celebrate the successes they've created. - Michelle Kidd

Vanta's Sales culture is extremely supportive and our sales leaders work very hard to ensure reps get the help they need to get deals over the line, win competitive deals, and feel confident talking to all types of prospects. Everyone is extremely hardworking, but equally down-to-earth and fun to be around. - Ashley

How would you describe the opportunities for career growth and personal development within the sales organization at Vanta?

Vanta nails this. There is a clearly outlined path for promotion with fully transparent guidelines on how to achieve the “next” step in your career. We also have one to one sales coaching tailored to our specific needs, which is pretty uncommon to get that individual time for professional growth. - Ashley

Among all else, the company cares about you as a person. Whether it’s time off, team meetups, everywhere from Palm Springs to Austin, or your VP asking about your weekend and knowing you well enough to know what you actually did. You can just tell everyone genuinely cares and that’s really incredible. - Ally Youngblood

Career opportunities are found at the crossroads of individual success and organizational necessity. This is the advantage of working at a smaller company! The visibility others have into your hard work is far greater than at a larger company and the need for new and different roles is constant. This combination is what propels individuals' careers in a significant way.  - Michelle Kidd

What are you most excited about for the future of Vanta?

I believe the day will come when prospects don't ask if a company is certified in a specific standard, but will instead ask "Does your company use Vanta for security and compliance?" - Ashley

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Becoming the holistic security partner that the market universally trusts is what excites me most. - Michelle Kidd

It’s pretty surreal to see the growth the company has had in my seven months, so I can only imagine where we will be a year from now. The amount of new business we will bring on, the growth of the sales team, the product development, supporting additional standards - all of it is exciting, especially experiencing it with a one of a kind sales team.  - Ally Youngblood

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