Strategic Account Executive

Summary

Join Glean as a Strategic Account Executive and drive new business growth within large enterprise prospects. Develop tailored strategies to penetrate and expand major accounts, requiring sophisticated account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building. Build a territory in the north central region, shaping Glean’s presence among industry leaders. Source and close new logos, navigate complex organizational structures, and understand customer business objectives. Collaborate with internal partners, consistently meet revenue targets, and develop effective sales strategies. Provide insightful input to corporate functions, create ROI reports, run successful POCs, and build relationships with C-level executives. This remote role is based in the Chicago or Minneapolis area.

Requirements

• 8+ years of closing experience in Sales with a track record of being a top performer
• Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product and have the ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
• Have clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizations
• Effectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities and building out a new territory
• Previous experience building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
• Knowledge of best of breed softwares and a technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
• Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions
• Previous experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & Engineers

Responsibilities

• Source and close net new logos within a given territory
• Have the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and identify executive sponsors and champions
• Research and understand the business objectives of your customers and have the ability to perform a value drive sales cycle
• Collaborate with internal partners to move deals forward and ensure customer success
• You will consistently deliver ARR revenue targets and drive success through a metric based approach
• Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings
• Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions
• Create ROI and business justification reports based off of a data driven approach
• Run tight POCs based off of business success criteria

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic understanding of search infrastructure is a plus
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies is a plus

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
• Generous time-off policy
• The opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals
• Home office improvement stipend
• Annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing
• Healthy lunches daily