Account Executive, Emerging Enterprise, Financial Services

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive focused on selling Braze's customer engagement platform, which includes AI-powered features, to enterprise clients in the Financial Services industry. The role involves building relationships, identifying new strategic accounts, and implementing a consultative sales approach. While the company utilizes AI in its product, the core function of this role is sales, not AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and nurture trusted relationships with C-suite executives at top-tier brands within the Financial Services industry, understanding their organizational complexities
  2. Identify and pursue net-new strategic accounts through targeted prospecting and outbound efforts
  3. Develop and manage relationships with high-profile accounts while actively seeking new opportunities
  4. Implement a consultative sales approach to identify priority business challenges and take a value-based approach to solution selling
  5. Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure a seamless client experience

Skills

Required

  • strategic SaaS sales
  • large enterprise Financial Services clients
  • complex solution selling
  • Value Selling
  • Business Value Assessments
  • sourcing and prospecting new accounts
  • outbound strategies
  • verbal, written, and presentation skills
  • adaptability to new cloud applications and tools
  • Salesforce.com or similar CRMs
  • networking skills
  • navigating large organizations
  • identifying key decision-makers
  • digital and application trends
  • mobile space

Nice to have

  • up-to-date on industry trends

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years in strategic SaaS sales
  • Financial Services clients
  • complex solution selling
  • Value Selling
  • Business Value Assessments
  • effective outbound strategies