Corporate Account Executive (新規開拓担当営業)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that uses an AI-native platform to protect organizations. This role is for a Corporate Account Executive responsible for driving new business and acquiring new logos in the assigned territory. The role involves a value selling process, collaborating with internal teams, and becoming an expert in cybersecurity and CrowdStrike products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and actively acquire new logos in the assigned territory
  2. Run a sophisticated Value Selling Process from Prospecting to Closure
  3. Collaborate with the team, including Sales Engineers (SEs), Marketing and Channel Partners to devise and execute account strategies and plans.
  4. Maintain accurate and timely forecast and updates to management team.
  5. Provide exceptional and high touch customer service, including escalation and coordination of support issues as needed.

Skills

Required

  • Excellent cold calling, presentation and persuasion skills
  • Proven ability to sell a complex sophisticated product/solution to organizations, covering all levels from C-level Executives down.
  • Challenger mentality
  • Hunger and a burning desire to drive success in a hyper growth environment
  • Able to leverage and master available tools and assets to scale up sales results e.g. virtual platforms, selling and prospecting tools, channel partners etc
  • Track record of exceeding expectations in an individually focused, quota carrying role.
  • Strong presentation skills, and customer handling skills.
  • Open minded, focused on constant self-improvement and able to learn new business and technical concepts quickly.
  • Competitive nature, but also a collaborative team player.
  • Persistent
  • Coachable
  • Charismatic
  • Sharp/Quick Witted
  • Creative
  • Motivated
  • Aptitude
  • Confidence with absence of Ego.
  • Self-Disciplined
  • Self-aware
  • 4 years of experience in B2B high-touch sales (SaaS or software experience preferred)
  • Proven track record of consistently achieving high results
  • Ability to learn greedily and apply that learning to their actions
  • Experience in solution selling that combines multiple products/services
  • Ability to confidently propose to management and engineering levels
  • Experience in lead generation through Salesforce and independent research, including cold calling
  • Ability to identify decision-makers and influencers and ask questions and present to influence them
  • Ability to actively share knowledge and experience with team members (open communication)
  • Comfortable with English

Nice to have

  • SaaS or software experience
  • MEDDIC or Sandler sales methodologies

What the JD emphasized

  • hunter mentality
  • results driven
  • customer focused
  • technologically savvy
  • innovative at building internal relationships and external partnerships
  • build business within their assigned territory
  • build effective relationships quickly
  • find valuable business within each account immediately
  • exceed their established targets and quotas
  • Proven ability to sell a complex sophisticated product/solution to organizations, covering all levels from C-level Executives down.
  • Challenger mentality. Change the status quo by leading and influencing prospects in a positive way to adopt a better approach to security
  • Hunger and a burning desire to drive success in a hyper growth environment
  • Track record of exceeding expectations in an individually focused, quota carrying role.
  • Persistent – Doesn’t stop at “no”. Believes they can overcome.
  • Coachable - Seeks help; knows how to get help, when to ask for it and what situations call for it.
  • Sharp/Quick Witted - thinks on their feet. Flexibility to handle a curveball.
  • Creative – Can think outside the box (when appropriate).
  • Motivated - to learn, to succeed, to win, to grow.
  • Aptitude - Able to learn and implement new concepts quickly.
  • Self-Disciplined - Proven to be good at time management, organization, and demonstrate discipline in their process and everyday business.
  • Self-aware – Has a solid understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and what they need to work on.