Enterprise Account Executive

Socket.dev; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is rapidly expanding its life‑saving drone delivery footprint in the United States, and we seek an elite Enterprise Account Executive to join our US team as the first hire dedicated to domestic health systems sales. You will drive the full sales cycle, engaging senior stakeholders and articulating the Zipline value proposition.

In this role you’ll build strategic account plans, craft tailored ROI analyses, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to close multi‑million dollar

Qualifications

• Experience selling complex solutions to enterprise clients.
• Ability to map stakeholders and build executive relationships.
• Proven track record with multi-year revenue plans and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Drive an end-to-end sales process from prospecting to close to meet targets.
• Articulate Zipline’s benefits to health system prospects.
• Develop qualified leads and rigorously qualify opportunities.
• Design and execute account plans for all target accounts.
• Create tailored content, proposals, and ROI analyses.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Stakeholder mapping

C-level relationships

Strategic account planning

Strong communication

Complex sales management

Job description

About Zipline

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About You and The Role

Zipline is rapidly expanding our life‑saving drone delivery footprint in the United States following the success and continued growth of the business across the globe. We are looking for an elite Enterprise Account Executive to join our US team as our first hire dedicated to domestic health systems sales. Read about our US launch here!

What You’ll Do

• Drive an effective sales process: source to close to attain/exceed your sales targets
• Effectively articulate the benefits of Zipline’s solution to prospective customers
• Evangelize and articulate the benefits of Zipline to prospective customers
• Actively prospect to develop qualified leads
• Rigorously qualify opportunities
• Design and execute account plans and strategies for all target accounts
• Craft tailored content, including presentations, proposals and custom ROI analyses

Within 60 days, you’ll:

• Gain deep knowledge of Zipline’s solution and customer value
• Perfect your own presentation of the Zipline value proposition
• Work with cross functional teams to gain deeper understanding of Zipline’s buyer and stakeholder personas
• Familiarize yourself with Zipline’s internal systems and processes

Within 180 days, you’ll be:

• An expert in the Zipline solution and Zipline buyer personas
• Fully ramped and conveying the Zipline story across your territory
• Actively advancing several opportunities towards closed-won
• Consistently building qualified pipeline

Within 365 days, you’ll:

• Have closed your first enterprise customer.
• Add to the sales team’s best practices in the vertical

What You’ll Bring

• Substantive experience with the planning, execution and management of a complex solution sales process--ideally for enterprise clients within a new market (we would be excited to learn that you’ve demonstrated success in managing market entry strategy, funding evaluation, and related research and analysis)
• Collaborative approach to sales that includes working with multiple groups both internally and externally
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills that build confidence and credibility
• Demonstrated ability to drive stakeholder mapping, develop relationships with C-level business stakeholders, and maintain a network of relationships to promote partnerships
• Inherent self-sufficiency, flexibility and confidence, with a preference for autonomously owning activities that drive revenue
• Advanced strategic and project management skills
• Ability to manage multiple large (Million-dollar+), complex sales opportunities simultaneously
• Innate passion for seeking depth and complete understanding in an account and market
• History of establishing high revenue, multi-year business plans and roadmaps for large-scale implementations
• Exceptional ability to analyze customers’ business situations from multiple viewpoints to identify gaps/opportunities, and align proposed solutions with the customer’s strategy and goals

What Else You Need To Know

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.

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As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.