Account Executive, Strategic Accounts

Airtable Airtable · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive at Airtable, a no-code app platform. The primary focus is on prospecting, developing, and closing sales for the Airtable Platform within strategic accounts, particularly in the Fortune 100. The role involves acting as a trusted business advisor, building relationships with senior executives, managing the full sales cycle, and coordinating internal resources. While Airtable is an AI company, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or shipping AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prospect, develop, manage sales pipeline and close customers onto our Airtable Platform through inbound and outbound efforts
  2. Build relationships with senior executives and decision makers across all industries
  3. Prioritize your book of business, develop and execute on account plans for each individual account, including identifying new opportunities, bridging use cases across departments, and building and climbing the org chart
  4. Source expansion opportunities in new departments, while telling a compelling wall to wall (multi-use case) story to the CIO (and other relevant executives) as an account gains momentum.
  5. Own the full sales-cycle from lead to close

Skills

Required

  • Quota carrying SaaS sales experience
  • Enterprise sales experience
  • Prospecting
  • Account planning
  • Closing 6-figure ARR deals
  • Consultative selling
  • Executive presence
  • Communication skills

Nice to have

  • Experience selling into central buying/IT teams
  • Experience managing stakeholders in Procurement and Legal
  • Developing and deepening relationships with C-level, Exec and VP stakeholders
  • Scrappy, resourceful and a creative problem solver

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of quota carrying SaaS sales experience
  • 6+ years selling into the Enterprise segment
  • Track record of overachieving quota across 6-8 quarters
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully and repeatedly close 6-figure ARR deals
  • owned complex deals with named accounts (3K+ FTEs)