Account Executive, Strategic Enterprise

Braze Braze · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive at Braze, a customer engagement platform that uses AI. The role focuses on building relationships with C-suite executives at top-tier brands, identifying and pursuing new strategic accounts, and developing and managing relationships with high-profile accounts. It involves a consultative sales approach, educating clients on industry trends, and utilizing CRM tools for pipeline management and forecasting. While the company utilizes AI, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and nurture trusted relationships with C-suite executives at top-tier brands, 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 clients
  • complex solution selling
  • Value Selling
  • Business Value Assessments
  • outbound strategies
  • verbal communication
  • written communication
  • presentation skills
  • adaptability to new cloud applications
  • Salesforce.com or similar CRMs
  • networking skills
  • digital and application trends
  • mobile space

Nice to have

  • willingness to travel

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years in strategic SaaS sales
  • large enterprise clients
  • complex solution selling
  • Value Selling
  • Business Value Assessments
  • outbound strategies
  • articulating complex concepts
  • Salesforce.com or similar CRMs
  • navigate large organizations
  • key decision-makers