Enterprise Account Executive- North Central

Nexthink; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental & Vision

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Hybrid work model

Unlimited vacation

401(k) matching

Referral bonuses

Training platforms

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Nexthink is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to drive new business revenue across the North Central region from Illinois through a broad set of markets. You will own the full sales cycle, build executive-level demand, and create strategic plans to win large enterprise deals.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in enterprise technology sales, a proven track record of quota attainment, and the ability to evangelize a category-defining solution that connects IT outcomes to business value.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise technology sales experience.
• Proven track record of quota overachievement and opening new logos.
• Experience selling complex solutions to large enterprise IT organizations.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and execute a regional sales strategy for the North Central territory.
• Prospect into enterprise accounts and develop qualified pipeline.
• Identify pains around productivity, IT support, application adoption, and AI readiness.
• Engage multiple IT and business stakeholders across organizations.
• Lead discovery, business case, executive presentations, and negotiations.
• Sell the full Nexthink solution including software, services, and support for long-term value.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Quota attainment

Executive engagement

Territory planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

As the leader in Digital Employee Experience, Nexthink gives enterprises real-time visibility into how employees experience technology across devices, applications, networks, and digital workflows. Our platform helps IT teams move from reactive support to proactive, automated experience management: seeing issues, diagnosing root causes, fixing problems at scale, and increasingly using AI to deliver faster, more intelligent outcomes for employees. Nexthink describes its platform as a unified DEX data and automation layer with AI-powered IT agents and Spark, built to help teams decide, design, automate, and resolve employee issues instantly.

This is a rare opportunity to sell into a market that is still expanding, highly relevant to every CIO, and increasingly central to how enterprises think about productivity, AI adoption, employee experience, and operational efficiency. Nexthink has been recognized as a category creator and global leader in DEX, with recent investment activity valuing the company at $3 billion.

We are looking for anEnterprise Account Executiveto drive new business revenue across theNorth Central region. This is a high-impact, field-oriented role for a seller who can create demand, challenge customer thinking, and help large organizations reimagine what IT can deliver to the business.

Territory Residency — Candidates much reside in one of the following North Central territory areas: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, South Dakota, or Wisconsin

Why this role matters

The next evolution of IT is not just about uptime. It is about experience, productivity, automation, and measurable business value.

As an Enterprise Account Executive at Nexthink, you will help CIOs, Digital Workplace leaders, End User Computing teams, Service Desk leaders, and IT Operations executives answer questions like:

• How do we find and fix technology issues before employees report them?
• How do we reduce ticket volume and improve service quality at scale?
• How do we measure whether employees are actually adopting new tools, including AI?
• How do we turn IT from a cost center into a driver of productivity and employee experience?
• How do we make digital work feel seamless?

You help customers rethink the operating model of enterprise IT.

What you will do

You will own new business growth across your assigned territory by building a strategic territory plan, creating executive-level demand, and driving complex enterprise sales cycles from initial engagement through close.

• Build, manage, and execute a regional sales strategy for the North Central territory.
• Prospect aggressively into enterprise accounts and develop qualified pipeline.
• Identify business pains tied to employee productivity, IT support, application adoption, digital transformation, and AI readiness.
• Engage multiple stakeholders across IT, Digital Workplace, End User Computing, Service Management, Infrastructure, Security, Procurement, and executive leadership.
• Evangelize Nexthink’s value proposition and educate customers on the rapidly evolving DEX category.
• Partner with Nexthink’s business development, marketing, channel, solution consulting, and professional services teams to create and advance opportunities.
• Lead discovery, business case development, executive presentations, proof-of-concept alignment, negotiation, and close.
• Manage customer expectations throughout evaluations and proof-of-concept cycles.
• Sell the full Nexthink solution, including software, services, and support, to ensure long-term customer success.
• Build trusted relationships that create expansion opportunities and durable customer value.
• Consistently exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual bookings targets.

What makes you a strong fit

You are a high-performing enterprise seller who knows how to create a market, not just respond to one. You are energized by new categories, complex problems, and executive conversations where you can connect technology to measurable business outcomes.

• 7+ years of enterprise technology sales experiencein a fast-paced, competitive B2B SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• A proven record of quota overachievement, such as President’s Club, top rep performance, or consistent attainment above plan.
• Experience selling complex solutions to large enterprise IT organizations.
• Ability to evangelize emerging categories and educate buyers on new ways of solving business problems.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to sell across technical, operational, and business stakeholders.
• Discipline in territory planning, account strategy, pipeline generation, qualification, forecasting, and deal execution.
• Comfort managing proof-of-concept processes and aligning technical validation to business value.
• A consultative sales approach with strong discovery, storytelling, and value-selling skills.
• High ownership, urgency, resilience, and intellectual curiosity.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Sold disruptive or category-creating technology in an early-stage, high-growth, or market-expansion environment.
• A track record of opening new logos and building territory from the ground up.
• The ability to simplify complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• A strong partner ecosystem mindset and experience working with channel, alliance, or services partners.
• The confidence to challenge customer assumptions while building trust.

The base salary for this role is $150,000-180,000 gross per year, with a total on-target earnings (OTE) range of $300,000-360,000 with additional opportunity to earn commissions above this range.

Why this role is exciting

This segment is full of companies that are mature enough to feel the pain of digital complexity, but agile enough to move fast when they see value. You will have the chance to open new accounts, shape customer thinking, and help IT leaders prove their impact on employee productivity.

Total Rewards @ Nexthink

At Nexthink, we offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans. Your totalrewards compensation package includes base salary and may also include a commission or performance bonus plan. We provide our US employees with 100% covered company benefits that consist of health, dental, vision as well as access to life insurance, long-term disability, and accidental death/personal loss coverage.

In addition, we offer:

• Flexible Hours and unlimited vacation (employees have unlimited paid time off on top of the 15 days of holidays we offer), 11 company-paid holidays, and 3 extra days for volunteering.
• Hybrid work model that balances office and remote work, with structured onboarding to foster connections and team integration.
• Free accessto professional training platforms to explore your interests and enhance your skills.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents/primary caregivers, 6 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Plan for the future with a 401(k) plan featuring up to 4% company matching contributions, vesting immediately, to grow your retirement savings.
• Bonuses for referring successful hires after three months of continuous employment.

Base salary ranges are determined by country, role, level, experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects Nexthink’s good faith determination of the minimum and maximum targets for new hire salaries across all US locations. Individual pay is determined by related factors, including job skills, experience, and relevant education or training, which may impact a final offer. Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.