Day to Day
Our Account Executives are responsible for selling the entire Customer 360 Platform and partnering closely with the extended team (BDR, SE, Specialists, etc.) to drive multi-touch, power-to-power alignment within accounts by demonstrating a collaborative approach.
This role covers a mid-market territory and manages an installed base of strategic accounts. The main goal is to grow these accounts by expanding their adoption of the Salesforce portfolio.
They do this by...
- Having a deep understanding of the way businesses operate, and the priorities that drive decisions from the C-level
- Creating demand by uncovering business problems and matching them to our solution
- Uncovering business initiatives and pain points to map back our solutions across multiple lines of business
- Building credibility and trust while influencing buying decisions
- Selling on value and return on investment vs. technical functionality
- Generating pipeline that leads to closed revenue and quota attainment
- Partnering with internal resources in order to drive additional value and expertise
Responsibilities
- Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
- Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives
- Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs
- Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment
- Share Salesforce value proposition for new customers
Preferred Qualifications
- Full cycle sales experience in the field (SaaS preferred)
- Experience managing a territory
- Passion for new logo acquisition with a proven track record of exceeding ACV targets primarily through outbound sourcing in complex, multi-product sales
- Experience selling to the C-suite
- Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
Our investment in you
- World class enablement and on-demand training - check out Trailhead.com for a sneak peek!
- Exposure to executive thought leaders with a passion for living our values
- Clear path to promotion with accelerated leadership development programs
- Weekly 1:1 coaching with your leadership
- Fast Ramp mentorship program
- Week-long product bootcamp
- Sandler Sales Training
Working at Salesforce
Working at Salesforce isn’t all about selling. Its also about learning, and we heavily invest in you with a month-long immersion and onboarding, including: a week-long product bootcamp, mentorship program, weekly coaching and development programs.
Benefits
- We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be#1 in PEOPLE's Top 50 Companies that Care, and are on Fortune's Change the World list.
- We provide every employee with 7 paid volunteer days off a year, and donation matching for all approved charitable donations.
- We provide other world-leading benefits to all our employees, including;
- Health, life insurance, retirement saving plan
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Flexible time off & leave policies
- Parental benefits
- Perks and discounts