Strategic Account Manager

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development platform is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive sales in the United States. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technology-related sales, strong relationship-building skills, and the ability to develop complex sales strategies for enterprise accounts. This role offers a competitive salary and incentives based on performance. Join us in transforming the software development landscape.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Sales incentives

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 9+ years experience in technology-related sales or equivalent experience.
• Ability to travel up to 25% to serve business or client needs.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute complex account plans for enterprise accounts.
• Leverage resources to identify new business opportunities.
• Build and maintain relationships with executive-level decision-makers.
• Manage sales pipeline and forecasting process.

Skills

Relationship building

Strategic selling

Market analysis

Complex deal management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business

Master's Degree in Business Administration

Job description

Overview

GitHub is expanding its Enterprise Sales team, and we’re seeking a strategic seller who thrives on developing new market segments and challenging the status quo, rather than driving upsell or cross-sell in established accounts.

As a Strategic Account Executive in this role, you will take ownership of a portfolio of high-upside enterprise accounts, and get to execute complex sales strategies by building trusted relationships with customer executives and aligning GitHub’s solutions with long-term customer business objectives.

The ideal candidate has high executive function and will be a proactive and resourceful enterprise sales professional, adept at identifying and securing new business opportunities with a proven track record of selling visionary, transformational products or platforms, demonstrating the ability to cast executive vision and drive technical wins. They must exhibit executive presence with a command of business value and outcomes, excelling in progressing complex deals by leveraging available resources with a scrappy and adaptable approach.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute complex account plans for an extensive portfolio of large and/or complex enterprise accounts using sales methodologies like MEDDPICC to drive high volume sales and alignment with customer objectives.

• Leverage business development resources and techniques to identify new business opportunities with large enterprise accounts, and drive new business revenue for GitHub

• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive-level decision-makers within a focused set of accounts, acting as a trusted advisor to facilitate business transformation.

• Expand your network of key partners and decision-makers across an array of customer accounts to maximize sales and partner impact.

• Manage the sales pipeline and forecasting process for a portfolio of global large and/or high complexity accounts, ensuring alignment with sales goals and risk mitigation.

• Engage with a broad array of customers within the clients to understand their business and technology needs, advocating internally to prioritize their requests and enhance satisfaction.

• Provide strategic market leadership by identifying and capitalizing on macro trends and competitive shifts, positioning GitHub as a leader in the industry.

• Drive enterprise-wide solution selling initiatives, crafting comprehensive proposals that address the multifaceted needs of a complex portfolio of accounts.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years experience in technology-related sales or a related field

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 7+ years experience in technology-related sales, technical selling, or a related field

• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration AND 5+ years experience in technology-related sales, technical selling, or a related field

• OR equivalent experience.

• Ability to travel up to 25% to serve business or client needs. New York City every quarter is expected.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience selling into a small subset (10 or less) of strategic, Fortune 500 accounts within the Financial Services or FinTech industries

• 4+ years experience navigating complex sales cycles within enterprise accounts, demonstrating an ability to manage multiple stakeholders successfully

• 2+ years experience in selling software licenses and/or usage based products to large enterprise and/or multinational corporations

• Ability to demonstrate a proven track record of consistently exceeding quotas in excess of $1M

• 13+ years experience in technology-related sales, technical selling, or a related field.

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 11+ years experience in technology-related sales, technical selling, or a related field

• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration AND 9+ years experience in technology-related sales, technical selling, or a related field

• OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years enterprise-level strategic sales or equivalent experience

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $184,750.00 - USD $184,750.00 /Yr.

In addition, this role also has the opportunity to earn sales incentives. On target earnings (OTE) is based on a 50/50 base salary/sales incentive.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual\'s base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee\'s role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

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