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AE/Sales Director Job Description (this is an IC direct seller role)
Our client is a rapidly growing file/cloud storage vendor focused on the datacenter and infrastructure environment.
Job Description
As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will be responsible for selling to and supporting the sale of a solution set to the end-user and partner community. This role involves sales and sales leadership responsibilities. You will manage existing accounts and develop new opportunities, acting as the primary customer relationship owner. You will develop and execute strategic sales plans leveraging all routes to market, owning and coordinating all account activities while maintaining a keen understanding of customer and partner businesses.
- Act as the CEO of your territory
- Follow our client’s sales process focused on selling specific business value
- Maintain a dynamic list of targeted accounts (20 at a time) for active prospecting, generating opportunities that lead to purchase orders
- Exceed quarterly new ARR bookings (including new, up-sell, cross-sell), with a minimum of $200,000 each quarter and an expectation of $1M annually for mature AEs
- Collaborate with Channel Account Managers to source new accounts via key channel partners, aiming for 30–50% of new logo bookings through channel sourced opportunities
- Provide accurate weekly revenue forecasts
Experience, Attributes and Proficiencies
- 3-5 years of experience selling data infrastructure solutions into large accounts
- Preferably experience selling to AEC and Manufacturing customers
- Aptitude to act as the CEO of your territory
- Recent significant direct customer relationships in your geography that can facilitate meetings based on your relationships/brand
- Experience with customers using SMB storage across multiple sites, large NetApp and Isilon storage estates
- Knowledge of customer solutions, pain points, and opportunities for improvement in key solution stacks like BC/DR, ransomware recovery, snapshots, archive, data classification, movement, and tiering
- Strong relationships with channel sellers supplying infrastructure hardware and software
- Proven success in opening new account territories and driving revenue growth
- Proactive prospecting and a challenger mentality to drive customers from the status quo to new technologies
- Strong sales mechanics and adherence to a specific sales process
- Excellent closing skills and ability to deliver impactful business value analyses
- Discipline in maintaining detailed daily sales activity records in CRM
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Sales, Business Development, and Information Technology
- Industries: Information Services, Technology, Media, Data Infrastructure and Analytics
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