Account Executive, Mid-market, Spanish & Portuguese Speaking (são Paulo, Brazil)

Figma Figma · Enterprise · São Paulo, Brazil · Sales

This is an Account Executive role focused on mid-market sales for Figma, a design platform. The role involves managing sales pipelines, building client relationships, and driving revenue. While Figma's platform may incorporate AI features, this position is not directly involved in building or developing AI/ML models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create and manage a pipeline of Mid-Market accounts from inbound and outbound activity to consistently meet or surpass sales targets
  2. Apply effective discovery and value-selling techniques to build and strengthen relationships with key decision-makers in both new and existing customers (500-5000 FTEs)
  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 account plans that outline company priorities and initiatives, multi-threading at senior level to build on expansion opportunities
  5. Manage a book of business by tiering accounts and initiating techniques to save contractions

Skills

Required

  • Experience closing sales, over multiple years, for a software or SaaS business with a book of customers (<5000 FTEs), selling to executives
  • Consistent performance meeting pipeline generation targets for net new business
  • Demonstrated experience successfully managing complex sales cycles (3-9 months)
  • A sales methodology and process that creates value for customers

Nice to have

  • Experience selling solutions to technical audiences at executive level (i.e. Engineering, Product, Design teams)
  • Demonstrated ability to succeed in a changing environment
  • Certified in deal qualification and prospect discovery