Senior Account Executive, Enterprise - East & Central

Atlassian; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 181,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Comprehensive perks & benefits

Job summary

At Atlassian, employees can work from office, home, or a mix, with global hiring allowed where legal. This role focuses on building strategic relationships, driving large enterprise deals, and guiding cross-functional teams to ensure customer success across a broad product portfolio.

In the United States, base pay ranges are zone-based, reflecting location and market norms. Eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of quota-carrying Enterprise Software Sales Experience.
• Experience growing enterprise accounts and applying strategy for greater outcomes.
• Experience engaging and building C-level and executive relationships.
• Experience creating alignment and orchestrating internal account teams.
• Experience managing key customer relationships and closing strategic sales opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement named Account or Territory plans geared at expanding opportunities across a wide portfolio of products and ensuring a high bar of customer success.
• Develop and executing strategic sales plans to achieve company sales goals and targets.
• Identifying and qualifying leads, building relationships with key decision makers, understanding customer needs, delivering sales presentations, negotiating contracts, and closing deals.
• Building and maintaining relationships with C-level and other executive relationships.
• Understanding client needs and proposing appropriate solutions to meet those needs.
• Collaborating with internal teams such as channel, marketing, product, and customer success to ensure client satisfaction.
• Negotiating contracts and pricing agreements with clients.
• Providing accurate forecasting and account planning and sales forecasts to management.
• Staying updated on industry trends and competitors to maintain a competitive edge.
• Traveling to meet clients and attend industry events as necessary.
• Build sales strategies for designated territory or named Accounts
• Serve as the main Atlassian point of contact or escalation point for designated Accounts
• Run strategy plays to identify opportunities and build long relationships with your customers.
• Work with complex sales cycles and collaborate cross functionally with Channel sales organization to build sales strategies for designated territory or names accounts.

Skills

Enterprise software sales

Account management

C-level relationships

Sales strategy

Forecasting & CRM

Territory planning

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Hunter mindset

Communication skills

Tools

CRM (Salesforce)

Job description

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

At Atlassian, we work with over 300,000 customers worldwide, including organizations like NASA, IBM, Hubspot, Samsung, Booking.com, Heineken, IKEA, and Coca-Cola. Our goal is to unleash the potential of every team through the power of incredible software solutions, delivering exceptional customer impact and ensuring ongoing revenue growth. What makes us unique is our belief in our value of ‘play as a team'. We support each other, celebrate our wins together and share knowledge. Our employees work with Atlassian, not for Atlassian.

There’s a strong earning potential for our sales team which is supported by the vast enterprise market awaiting our exploration, along with the consistent preference of our customers for Atlassian products.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for building and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders, negotiating complex contracts, and collaborating with internal teams: Channel Partners, Product Specialists, Account Managers, and Solution Engineers to ensure customer satisfaction. Are you customer-focused, creative, with a hunter mindset? Are you excited by identifying business needs and ideating to create solutions for Fortune 500 companies. If yes, then we’d love to have you on our team!

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Develop and implement named Account or Territory plans geared at both maximizing expansion opportunities across a wide portfolio of products and ensuring a high bar of customer success.


• Developing and executing strategic sales plans to achieve company sales goals and targets.


• Identifying and qualifying leads, building relationships with key decision makers, understanding customer needs, delivering sales presentations, negotiating contracts, and closing deals.


• Building and maintaining relationships with C-level and other executive relationships.


• Understanding client needs and proposing appropriate solutions to meet those needs.


• Collaborating with internal teams such as channel, marketing, product, and customer success to ensure client satisfaction.


• Negotiating contracts and pricing agreements with clients.


• Providing accurate forecasting and account planning and sales forecasts to management.


• Staying updated on industry trends and competitors to maintain a competitive edge.


• Traveling to meet clients and attend industry events as necessary.


• Build sales strategies for designated territory or named Accounts


• Serve as the main Atlassian point of contact or escalation point for designated Accounts


• Run strategy plays to identify opportunities and build long relationships with your customers.


• Work with complex sales cycles and collaborate cross functionally with Channel sales organization to build sales strategies for designated territory or names accounts.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

Role

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $180,900 - $236,175

Zone B: $162,810 - $212,558

Zone C: $150,147 - $196,025

Qualifications

Your Background

• 6+ years of quota-carrying Enterprise Software Sales Experience


• Experience growing enterprise accounts, and applying strategy that results in greater outcomes


• Experience engaging and building C-level and executive relationships


• Experience creating alignment and orchestrating internal account teams


• Experience managing key customer relationships and closing strategic sales opportunities


• Extensive experience utilizing a CRM to achieve and correlate key performance metrics


• Building and leading territory & strategic account plans


• Experience leading or coordinating Account teams to drive successful customer outcomes


• Proactively engages customers with a consultative, solution-oriented approach in discovering new opportunities


• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance targets


• Contributes to the overall team culture in a positive, impactful way


• You possess a learner mindset


• Experience , and orchestrate the execution of strategies for assigned accounts


• Ability to partner cross-functionally and proactively builds a network with internal and external stakeholders to drive the business forward

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.