Commercial Account Executive - UK

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Sales

Glean is seeking a Commercial Account Executive for their UK territory to drive sales of their AI-powered knowledge management platform. The role involves sourcing and closing new business, navigating complex organizations, and collaborating with internal teams to meet ARR targets. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of closing experience in technical SaaS sales, a track record of top performance, and the ability to demonstrate a technical product.

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

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