Account Executive, Emerging Enterprise

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Austin, TX · Sales

Account Executive for Braze's Emerging Enterprise General Business team, managing the full sales cycle for companies with 1,000-2,000 employees in verticals like QSR, Health & Life Sciences, Travel & Hospitality, and Technology. Requires 5+ years of SaaS enterprise sales experience, strong prospecting, business development, and CRM skills. Responsibilities include managing a customer portfolio, identifying expansion opportunities, forecasting accuracy, and collaborating with internal teams. Experience with MEDDPICC framework and Marketing Technology preferred. Compensation includes base salary and OTE with equity.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to close.
  2. Manage a customer portfolio of 12 - 15 accounts, proactively identifying expansion opportunities and churn risks, collaborating closely with internal customer success, product, and technology teams.
  3. Demonstrated success in navigating large organizations, with the ability to quickly identify key decision-makers and understand their buying processes for substantial SaaS investments.
  4. A proven track record of forecasting accuracy, including operational rigor in ensuring forecasts and opportunity details are kept up to date on a regular basis.
  5. Strong ability to generate demand through outbound prospecting efforts and collaboration with internal teams, such as business development, marketing, and technology & agency partners.

Skills

Required

  • Full sales cycle management
  • Prospecting
  • Business development
  • SaaS enterprise sales
  • CRM systems (Salesforce.com preferred)
  • Forecasting accuracy
  • Account management
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management
  • Understanding of IT and business departments
  • Adaptability to new cloud applications

Nice to have

  • Experience in Marketing Technology
  • Familiarity with analytics, CRM, marketing automation, digital media publishing, or content marketing solutions
  • Knowledge of MEDDPICC framework
  • Command of the Message experience
  • Experience selling to QSR, Health & Life Sciences, Travel & Hospitality, or Technology verticals

What the JD emphasized

  • full sales cycle
  • prospecting
  • close
  • Emerging Enterprise segment
  • 1,000 and 2,000 employees
  • General Business segment
  • SaaS solutions to enterprise clients
  • deal sizes ranging from $200K to $1M+
  • 5+ years of experience selling SaaS solutions
  • 5 years of overall industry experience
  • enterprise companies
  • smaller enterprise sales organization
  • selling solutions that engage stakeholders across IT and business departments
  • analytics
  • CRM
  • marketing automation
  • digital media publishing
  • content marketing solutions
  • Enterprise Sales for Marketing Technology
  • generate demand through outbound prospecting efforts
  • collaboration with internal teams
  • business development
  • marketing
  • technology & agency partners
  • navigating large organizations
  • key decision-makers
  • buying processes
  • substantial SaaS investments
  • Manage a customer portfolio of 12 - 15 accounts
  • proactively identifying expansion opportunities
  • churn risks
  • customer success
  • product
  • technology teams
  • forecasting accuracy
  • operational rigor
  • forecasts and opportunity details are kept up to date
  • operational excellence and organization
  • keeping internal stakeholders appropriately informed on deal progress
  • Slack updates
  • internal notes documents
  • leading productive deal reviews
  • keeping MEDDPICC scorecards updated regularly
  • Salesforce.com CRM
  • other CRM systems
  • manage sales pipelines
  • adapt to new cloud applications and tools
  • MEDDPICC framework
  • Command of the Message experience
  • lead and strategically manage a group of internal cross-functional stakeholders
  • complex sales motion
  • Solutions Consulting
  • executive alignment
  • Value Consulting
  • Customer Success
  • current trends in the digital and application industries