Accenture Account Executive, Strategic (london, United Kingdom)

Figma Figma · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Accenture Account Executive, Strategic role at Figma, focusing on sales and expansion within the Accenture account. Responsibilities include managing sales targets, building C-level relationships, developing strategic account plans, and co-creating with cross-functional partners to drive deals and ensure customer success. Requires experience selling to or within Accenture or Big 4 companies, closing enterprise SaaS deals, and managing complex sales cycles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage Accenture to consistently meet or exceed quarterly and annual sales targets
  2. Apply effective discovery and value-selling techniques to build and strengthen C-level relationships
  3. Align with executives on business challenges and gain sponsorship for enterprise wide deployments for a suite of products, identifying where Figma’s roadmap and innovations fit in the long term
  4. Conduct thorough analysis to create strategic account plans that outline company priorities and initiatives, multi-threading at at senior level to build on expansion opportunities
  5. Co-create with cross-functional partners to expertly position Figma, drive deals forward and ensure customer success

Skills

Required

  • Experience selling to or within Accenture
  • Experience closing sales for a software or SaaS business
  • Experience selling to executives
  • Consistent performance meeting pipeline generation targets
  • Demonstrated experience successfully managing complex sales cycles

Nice to have

  • Experience selling solutions to technical audiences
  • Demonstrated ability to succeed in a changing environment
  • Certified in deal qualification and prospect discovery

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience selling to or within Accenture
  • sold to a Big 4 (PWC, KPMG, EY or Deloite) company
  • sold large enterprise deals
  • highest tier of Enterprise customers (5000+ FTEs)
  • managing complex sales cycles (9 months+)