Apple Business Account Executive

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Sales and Business Development

This role is for an experienced Account Executive focused on selling Apple products and solutions to large enterprises, driving business transformation and revenue growth. The role involves understanding customer business models, developing account plans, collaborating with internal and external partners, and executing sales strategies. It requires strong consultative selling, C-level relationship building, and deal-making skills. While the company is an AI leader, this specific role is in sales and business development, not directly building or researching AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deeply understand your assigned account’s business models by researching and exploring an ever-expanding group of contacts.
  2. You will develop account plans aligned with our customers’ strategies, assess their progress, and guide them on the journey of transformation to mobility and growing adoption of the Apple ecosystem.
  3. Effectively execute on plans by cross-functionally partnering with Systems Engineers, industry specialists, as well as reseller and strategic partners.
  4. You’ll build demand generation activities, identify new opportunities, accurately forecast, and coordinate fulfillment logistics.

Skills

Required

  • Account Executive experience selling to large Enterprises
  • Consultative selling experience in business transformation solutions
  • C-level executive relationship cultivation
  • Relationship development/management
  • Teaming across functions
  • Deal making
  • Negotiations
  • Self-starter
  • Independent work
  • Dynamic and ambiguous environment navigation

Nice to have

  • Presenting
  • Calm under pressure
  • Simplifying complex information
  • Commanding an audience
  • Supporting learning and curiosity
  • Deep knowledge of Apple hardware, software, and services integration
  • Navigating organizational interdependencies
  • Understanding business financials and strategies for profitable growth
  • Market analysis
  • Long-term strategic thinking
  • Integrity, honesty, and accountability
  • Trusted advisor
  • Customer-centricity
  • Exceeding customer expectations
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Approximately 10 years of experience as an Account Executive selling to large Enterprises
  • Validated consultative selling experience in business transformation solutions for large enterprises
  • Experience in cultivating C-level executive relationships at Fortune 500 companies
  • Comfortable challenging the status quo
  • Can demonstrate previous success with executive interaction
  • Strengths in relationship development/management, teaming across functions, deal making, and negotiations
  • A strong self-starter who is able to work independently to develop new areas with the ability to work in a dynamic, sometimes ambiguous environment