The Account Executive (AE) owns the client-facing sales motion end to end — from discovery through to a signed deal. This role conducts high-quality discovery calls with prospective and existing Atticus Advisory Solutions clients, accurately understands their needs, challenges, and desired outcomes, and then drives that insight through negotiation and close, not just a handover. The AE collaborates closely with SDRs, Recruitment, Client Success, and Delivery teams to convert discovery insights into signed, revenue-generating engagements.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the full deal cycle beyond discovery — proactively drive opportunities through proposal, negotiation, and signed contract, rather than handing off once qualified.
- Self-generate and revive pipeline: proactively re-engage stalled, cold, or dormant leads and accounts instead of relying solely on SDR-sourced leads.
- Lead pricing and commercial negotiations with prospects, working within approved costing and margin guardrails to get deals signed.
- Own individual revenue and quota targets, and report progress against them — not just activity or conversion metrics.
- Run a disciplined, relentless follow-up cadence to prevent deal slippage and revive stalling opportunities.
- Multi-thread relationships across the buying group (champion, economic buyer, end users) to reduce single-point-of-failure risk and speed up decisions.
- Proactively surface upsell and expansion opportunities within existing client accounts.
- Take ownership of objection handling and creative deal structuring to overcome hesitation and competitive threats — going beyond the standard script when a deal needs it.
- Challenge client thinking where appropriate (Challenger-style) rather than simply taking orders, to shape a stronger, better-fit deal.
- Feed win/loss insights back into the sales playbook and share best practices with the wider team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Psychology, Marketing, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in sales, consulting, customer success, or account management (B2B/offshoring/tech staffing experience is a plus).
- Strong communication and questioning skills, with the ability to uncover deep client needs.
- Experience using CRM tools HubSpot is a must.
- Ability to confidently speak with C-level and senior decision-makers.
- High attention to detail in documentation, qualification, and follow-through.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of staffing/offshoring market dynamics.
- Goal-oriented, organized, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated track record of consistently hitting or exceeding a sales quota (not just managing accounts or supporting a sales process)
Core Competencies
- Closing Drive — a clear, demonstrated bias toward action and urgency to convert opportunities into signed business, not just well-qualified ones.
- Resilience & Grit — keeps momentum through rejection, stalled deals, and long sales cycles.
- Self-Starter / Proactive Prospecting — doesn’t wait on SDR handoff; hunts for and creates their own opportunities.
- Ownership & Accountability — treats quota as personal and owns pipeline outcomes end to end.
- Commercial & Financial Acumen — understands pricing, margins, and deal economics well enough to negotiate confidently.
- Executive Presence & Gravitas — holds credibility with C-level and senior stakeholders under pressure.
- Coachability & Adaptability — adjusts approach fast based on feedback, deal dynamics, or market shifts.
- Competitive Drive — motivated by winning and outperforming targets and peers.
- Storytelling & Value Articulation — turns discovery insight into a compelling, ROI-driven business case.
- Territory & Priority Management — focuses time on the highest-value opportunities without dropping the rest of the pipeline.
Success Metrics
- Win rate / close rate on qualified opportunities (SDR led bookings)
- Quota attainment (% of revenue target achieved monthly/quarterly)
- Self-sourced pipeline contribution (% of pipeline the AE generated outside SDR handoff)
Open to local applicants only
Must be amenable to work on a US Shift schedule