Account Executive

Bloom Energy; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloom Energy seeks an Enterprise Account Executive to join a world-class team and drive large-scale, complex sales to premier accounts in the United States. This remote role requires strong experience selling high-tech solutions, navigating executive-level objections, and coordinating internal resources to craft compelling, high-value proposals.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in outside sales, BA/BS with MBA preferred, and willingness to travel to ensure coverage across regions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of outside/enterprise sales experience.
• Proven ability to sell to C-level executives and manage multi-million dollar deals.

Responsibilities

• Oversee early and mid-stage sales activities: qualification, development, and initial proposal.
• Achieve full quota attainment from named accounts within the region; interact with executives to hit quota.
• Coordinate with sales engineering, application engineering, and structured finance to craft qualified proposals.
• Develop and manage a robust opportunity funnel to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Map accounts and build relationships with key decision-makers; maintain high customer satisfaction.

Skills

Large account sales

C-level engagement

Consultative selling

Travel readiness

Sales methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Job description

Bloom Energy is one of the most exciting companies in clean energy today. We're helping solve the power challenges created by AI, data centers, and electrification, working with many of the world's largest organizations. If you're looking to build something with real-world impact, Bloom is a special place to do it - And we are looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to join our world class team.

We look for salespeople who exceed goals and can sell a complex technical product.

Experience: 10+ years of outside sales experience. Education: BA/BS required; MBA preferred. This role is remote with travel twice a month to our San Jose HQ

Role and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing all early and mid-stage aspects of the Bloom Energy sales process: Opportunity Qualification, Opportunity Development, & Initial Proposal
• Responsible for full quota attainment from named accounts in region– interaction with leading executives critical to achieving quota.
• Manage internal resources for sales engineering, application engineering, and structured finance to crafted a qualified proposal. Cross functional player willing to partner with Centers of Excellence teams
• Responsible for developing and managing an opportunity funnel within the named accounts sufficient to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Responsible for mapping of accounts, and building relationships with key decision makers.
• Accountable for maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction in assigned accounts.
• Responsible for seeing that the feedback from assigned accounts is properly captured.

Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years large account direct sales experience in any of the high tech/facilities equipment/clean tech/ consultative sales industries.
• Demonstrated ability to develop creative solutions to objections, to operate successfully at the C-Level of multi-billion dollar companies, and to develop relationships at the executive level within accounts, especially finance & operations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop multi-million dollar projects (>$10M) to exceed a multi-million dollar individual quota selling direct to large and medium sized enterprises with little direct management oversight.
• Highly competitive with demonstrated ability to personally and with a team connect broadly across multiple stakeholders.
• Skilled in Consultative Selling.
• Able to travel as required in order to cover a geographic area.
• Experience using a formalized sales methodology a plus.
• Passionate about our customers, solution, and team.
• Able to grow and adapt as Bloom Energy grows.

Total Compensation (OTE):

$300,000 - $420,000, including salary, target sales bonus, and equity.

Sales Incentive Upside:

Eligible to earn up to 3x the target sales bonus based on performance.