ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Strategic Account Executive, you are responsible for engaging with our largest prospective customers and introducing them to 15Five. In this position you also play a large role in refining our Enterprise GTM strategy, helping lead the organization towards a team selling approach. On a regular basis you will be responsible for consulting with VPs and C-Level Executives and helping them solve their business challenges.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Closing Strategic Deals
Events and Partnerships Support
Value Selling Sales Strategy
SCHEDULE / WORK LOCATION
Full-time, salaried exempt position Typical work week: Monday through Friday, 8 am to 6 pm Flexible schedule while working an expected 40+ hours/week Possible early-morning or after-hours requirements due to support across various time zones
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Closing Enterprise-level Deals
- Become an expert in the 15Five platform and services offering
- Develop a strong understanding of key differentiators and the competitive landscape
- Build relationships and sell consultatively to VP and C-Level within our ICP
- Bring in $800,000k of Revenue in the year
- Act as a leader in our team selling environment. Strategic Sales is a team sport and each team needs a leader. You’ll be expected to liaise well with members across departments at 15Five
- Consistently manage pipeline data and info, sales activity and ability to accurately forecast
- Events and Partnerships Support
- Engage with marketing and events team members to achieve goals outlined above.
- Value Selling Sales Strategy
- Strategically drive complex transactions involving multiple executive level budget holders and decision makers to closure
- Engage in diligent prospecting by working with your BDR to develop a territory plan that ensures everyone in your region knows your name and how you can help them
- Help the organization understand how to better move upstream
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE /COMPETENCIES / ATTRIBUTES
- Intelligence and technical aptitude to position the benefits of our products
- Strong background, or a willingness to quickly learn, the ins and outs of people and performance management
- Strategic mindset to drive and execute complex enterprise sales processes
- Proven success selling complex B2B SaaS solutions to C-level executives
- Ability to navigate conversations around value, over features and functions
- 5+ years experience in SaaS sales (preferably Enterprise Solutions)
- Previous experience carrying and exceeded quotas of $1M+ (consistent earnings over-achievement in past roles)
- Consultative sales style with the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment Consistent track record of success, closing complex and technical sales in highly competitive markets
- Extraordinary commitment to accurately tracking all customer engagement and activity through the use of Salesforce
- Strong project management and negotiation skills
- Extreme comfort as a self-starter. Able to work independently, with minimal direct supervision while still driving results
DESIRED IMPACT
- By 1 Month
- Complete the New Employee Onboarding Experience
- Successfully complete Product & Pitch Certification
- Gain a full understanding of our sales process
- Ready to take a prospect facing call in month two
- Start to develop competency in competitive landscape, HR industry, and business use case
- Setting up to hit a ramping quota by month 3
- By 3 Months
- You’ve hit your stride with the sales process and can explain the purchasing process to a prospect
- Active participation in our weekly deal syncs
- Ability to lead a sales training on areas of the sales process (Discovery, Demo, Negotiation, etc)
- Ability to run an ABM campaign for a set of target accounts
- You’re tracking toward hitting a fully ramped quarterly quota
- By 6 Months
- You are an integral part of the New Business Sales team and you lead by exampleSuccessfully articulate software and services value with target accounts
- Comfortable and confident engaging with VPs and C-Level Executives to help them solve key business problems
- Successfully connected with roughly 30% ABM campaign for a set of target accounts with the help of your BDR
- Actively leveraging SLT, management, and other department leaders in customer conversations
- Leveraged Deal Review Boards and several active conversations also leverage executives
- You’re tracking to hit your annual quota and commensurate pipeline coverage (4x)