Commercial Account Executive, Canada

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Canada · Remote · Sales

Glean is seeking a Commercial Account Executive to drive new business and expand relationships within large enterprise accounts for their Work AI platform. The role involves sourcing and closing net new logos, navigating complex organizations, understanding customer business objectives, and delivering ARR revenue targets. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of closing experience in technical SaaS sales, can demonstrate complex deals, and has a technical understanding of integrations and infrastructure.

What you'd actually do

  1. Source and close net new logos within a given territory
  2. Have the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and identify executive sponsors and champions
  3. Research and understand the business objectives of your customers and have the ability to perform a value drive sales cycle
  4. Collaborate with internal partners to move deals forward and ensure customer success
  5. You will consistently deliver ARR revenue targets and drive success through a metric based approach

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of closing experience in Sales
  • Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product
  • Ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
  • Clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizations
  • Effectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities and building out a new territory
  • Previous experience building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
  • Knowledge of best of breed softwares
  • technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
  • Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions
  • Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions
  • Create ROI and business justification reports based off of a data driven approach
  • Run tight POCs based off of business success criteria

Nice to have

  • Basic understanding of search infrastructure is a plus
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • closing experience in Sales
  • track record of being a top performer
  • closing complex deals
  • selling into complex organizations
  • selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions