Commercial Account Executive, East

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Sales

This role is for a Commercial Account Executive at Glean, an enterprise AI company focused on knowledge work transformation. The role involves sourcing and closing new business, managing complex sales cycles, and collaborating with internal teams to achieve ARR targets. While the company is deeply involved in AI, this specific role is sales-focused and does not involve building or shipping AI models.

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

  • 3+ years of closing experience in Sales with a track record of being a top performer
  • Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product and have the ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
  • Have 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 and a technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
  • Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions

Nice to have

  • Basic understanding of search infrastructure is a plus
  • You have previous experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & Engineers
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • Candidates are required to reside in the East Region, ideally NYC