Public Sector Enterprise Growth Account Executive

UKG Inc.; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Aggressive compensation plan

Presidents Club

Job summary

UKG Inc. is seeking an accomplished Public Sector Enterprise Account Executive to drive net-new logo growth across the Public Sector West Enterprise territory, covering large state and local government organizations in the Western United States.

This hunter role targets complex, high-value deals with a defined territory and strategic accounts, backed by a seasoned leadership team, solution consultants, and an ecosystem of partners. You’ll sell cloud-based HCM and workforce management solutions.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of proven success selling complex cloud or SaaS solutions to enterprise or public-sector organizations.
• Demonstrated success selling to C-level executives and senior government leaders.
• Consistent achievement against a $2 million or greater annual quota, or equivalent enterprise sales target.
• Proven experience closing complex enterprise agreements of $500,000 or more in annual contract value.
• Experience managing sales cycles of 12 months or longer involving multiple executive, operational, technical, procurement, legal, and financial stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success generating net-new business and building pipeline within a defined territory.
• Direct experience selling to state or local government is strongly preferred.
• Experience selling HCM, payroll, workforce management, ERP, analytics, public safety, or other mission-critical enterprise software is preferred.
• Understanding of public-sector procurement, budget cycles, appropriations, RFP/RFI processes, and government contracting.
• Strong executive presence, negotiation skills, and written and verbal communication abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a territory plan focused on state agencies, cities, counties, public safety organizations, and other large public-sector entities.
• Generate net-new pipeline and close strategic agreements, with an emphasis on opportunities of $500,000 or more in annual contract value.
• Engage governors’ offices, agency leaders, CIOs, CHROs, CFOs, sheriffs, commissioners, procurement officials, and other senior decision-makers.
• Uncover workforce, operational, financial, compliance, and technology challenges and connect them to measurable business outcomes.
• Navigate complex government buying processes, including RFPs, RFIs, cooperative purchasing agreements, appropriations, budget cycles, security reviews, legal negotiations, and executive approvals.
• Develop compelling business cases, value assessments, proposals, and executive presentations.
• Build and maintain relationships with implementation partners, systems integrators, advisors, cooperative purchasing organizations, and other strategic partners.
• Coordinate internal resources across solution consulting, value engineering, professional services, legal, contracts, security, finance, marketing, customer success, and executive leadership.
• Lead opportunities from initial prospecting through contract execution, managing strategy, competition, risks, negotiations, and close plans.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Public sector

C-level selling

Quota attainment

Negotiation

Public sector procurement

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Salesforce

Clari

Job description

UKG Inc. is seeking an accomplished Public Sector Enterprise Account Executive to drive net-new logo growth across the Public Sector West Enterprise territory, covering large state and local government organizations in the Western United States.

This hunter role targets complex, high-value deals with a defined territory and strategic accounts, backed by a seasoned leadership team, solution consultants, and an ecosystem of partners. You’ll sell cloud-based HCM and workforce management solutions.