Commercial Account Executive

Zendesk Zendesk · Enterprise · South Korea · Remote

This role is for a Commercial Account Executive at Zendesk, focusing on B2B sales within the SaaS industry. The primary responsibilities include driving revenue growth by acquiring new commercial customers, expanding existing accounts, managing customer relationships, and exceeding sales targets. The role requires experience in complex sales cycles, strong presentation and negotiation skills, and familiarity with sales tools like Salesforce.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive top-line revenue growth by acquiring new commercial customers and developing innovative strategies for account expansion.
  2. Manage and nurture customer relationships ensuring maximum satisfaction and retention, and promoting long-term strategic partnerships.
  3. Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to cross sell additional products and services to existing customers to optimize account revenue and profitability.
  4. Leverage data insights, customer intents, and adoption history to effectively prospect new clients and enhance retention strategies, leading to improved conversion rates in new business pipeline and increased retention and expansion of existing clients.
  5. Understand and convey the benefits of Zendesk products ensuring alignment with customers’ business objectives to secure customer satisfaction and product expansion.

Skills

Required

  • B2B sales or solution engineering experience
  • SaaS industry experience
  • exceeding sales targets
  • navigating complex sales cycles and renewals
  • managing and expanding customer relationships
  • presentation skills
  • negotiation skills
  • deal closing skills
  • selling to VP and C-level executives
  • Salesforce
  • Clari

Nice to have

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record in B2B sales
  • proven record of exceeding sales targets
  • Expertise in navigating complex sales cycles and renewals
  • multi-month, value-centric processes with proof of concept stages
  • Exceed revenue goals on a quarterly and annual basis