Remote Enterprise Account Executive

Summary

The job description is for an Account Executive position at Honeycomb, a remote-first observability platform company. The role involves selling the product to mid-market and large accounts, conducting sales activities, navigating technical and business decision makers, developing expansion opportunities from existing customers, providing timely forecasts, leveraging internal teams, tracking opportunity and customer details, working strategically with management, contributing product ideas, and ensuring successful implementation and adoption of Honeycomb. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in a closing role at a SaaS Solution, preferably at an APM, Monitoring or Log Management SaaS provider.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a closing role at a SaaS Solution
• Strong focus and success in out bounding and leading the sales motion within Enterprise accounts
• A strong understanding of the software development life cycle, preferably gained by selling software products that target a part of it
• Experience managing a sale that involves technical integration prior to purchase
• Experience working with customer champion to scope an achievable, valuable POC to appeal to the buyer. Proven ability to deepen the relationship with technical buyers as well as the ability to engage with Economic buyers with in an Enterprise
• Experience working within a Sales Methodology, preferably Command of the Message and MEDDPICC
• Understanding the importance and impact of being able to team effectively with cross functional partners

Responsibilities

• Articulate the Honeycomb product value proposition and tailor our ROI message to the customer’s discovered use case
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities within mid-market and large accounts
• Conduct discovery calls, presentations, and demos with a technical audience, while driving the conversation towards ROI and business pain
• Navigate from individual contributors and practitioners to technical and business decision makers in the account
• Focus on customers’ satisfaction. Know the customer’s business and workflows, develop proper contact network within accounts
• Develop expansion opportunities from our existing customer base to land upsells
• Provide timely and accurate forecasts, based on evidence and not hope, and clear visibility on sales and revenue performance by actively handling your pipeline of opportunities
• Leverage and coordinate cross-functional internal teams (Engineering, Marketing, Product, Customer Success) to efficiently navigate sales cycles
• Track all opportunity and customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
• Work strategically with management to identify trending opportunities/challenges, and provide recommended solutions
• Contribute to post-mortem analysis on wins/losses
• Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process
• Ensure the successful implementation and adoption of Honeycomb through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales engineering and support resources
• Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas
• Travel as necessary to accounts in order to develop relationships and close large opportunities

Benefits

• OTE for this role is $250,000-300,000 based on level of experience
• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• Compensation benchmarked to San Francisco market - no matter where you live (or move)!
• 401k plan to help you plan for your future
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance and 75% for dependents
• Time to Recharge - In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we provide ~23 days off through out the year. This includes a company wide break at the end of the year, and we honor having at least one three day weekend a month (if there is not already a locally observed holiday that month, we add one!)
• Pick Your Perk - $600 a year to spend on the perks that you care about most
• Work Life Balance and Flexible Schedule options
• $500 Home Setup Stipend
• $200 Reimbursement for Cell/Wifi/CoWorking
• $1500+ Annual Professional Development Allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Maven Inclusive Family-Building benefit
• Modern Health well-being benefit
• Semi-annual performance conversations
• Annual compensation review