Account Executive, Enterprise (Comms, Media, & Tech)

As an established Account Executive, you know how to navigate through Communications, Media, & Tech organizations. You’re knowledgeable about your clients’ specific challenges and business objectives. You understand how to align your software offering to build a custom solution that your clients can’t live without. You understand what it means to sell a value based solution to and engage with C-suite Executives. You’ve made massive contributions to your product roadmap by collecting customer feedback and requests and delivering those to internal teams. Your storytelling skills are unmatched so presenting to business line owners across multiple departments won’t be a problem for you. You excel in dynamic environments so shifting gears at a moment’s notice and providing excellent customer service is what you consistently deliver.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we seek to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative.

 Your Impact:

Success will be measured by overall performance in bringing in net new clients and expanding existing accounts, all while delivering an exceptional customer experience.
Drive revenue and lead the full cycle sales process including prospecting new leads, navigating the C-suite and business line owners, negotiating contracts, and closing new and renewal business with Communications, Media, & Tech customers
Provide recommendations based on a customers’ business needs and usage patterns
Balance inbound customer communication and prioritize/call out issues appropriately including: billing, legal, security, and technical inquiries
Collaborate with different members of the Sales team (Solutions Engineers, Customer Success Managers, Leadership, etc.) to build strategic adoption plans for customers
Educate customers on the value of Slack in a thoughtful way
Serve as the voice of the customer and collect feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including Product

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of full cycle sales experience, preferably in SaaS
You are an adept storyteller, effectively engaging and developing relationships with senior managers and the C-suite
Preferred Qualifications:
You have experience (and should enjoy!) collaborating with internal sales teams like Solutions Engineers and Customer Success Managers
You have worked in a highly matrixed environment and understand how to sell internally as well as externally
You’ve sold SaaS software that can be used across every stakeholder, multiple departments, and every industry
You’ve built global engagement across multiple lines of business and broadened product support within Communications, Media, & Tech organizations
You enjoy traveling and have the ability to travel 20-30% of the time

About Salesforce

Founded in 1999, Salesforce is the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Companies of every size and industry are using Salesforce to transform their businesses, across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and more by connecting with customers in a whole new way. We harness technologies that can revolutionize companies, careers, and, hopefully, our world.

Salesforce is built on a set of four core values: Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Equality. By making technology more accessible, we’re helping create a future with greater opportunity and equality for all. This has taken our company to great heights, including being named one of the FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For®” for 12 years in a row.

There are those who choose to work with the best and brightest. And then, there are those who want to do more than just a job. They are the ones improving lives, not only their careers. Having an impact now instead of later. Doing something that’s so much bigger than themselves, an industry, and their company.

We believe everyone can be a Trailblazer. Join Salesforce and discover a future of new opportunities.

Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $119,000 to $186,150.

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At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.

Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce.com and Salesforce.org will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.com or Salesforce.org.