Corporate Account Executive

Glean Glean · Enterprise · New York, NY · Sales

Glean is seeking a Corporate Account Executive to sell their Work AI platform, which includes enterprise search, an AI assistant, and AI agents, to high-growth companies. The role involves full-cycle sales, driving net-new logos and expansion within the 50-300 employee segment. Responsibilities include sourcing and closing deals, understanding customer business objectives, collaborating with internal teams, and meeting ARR targets. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of closing experience in technical SaaS sales, can demonstrate a technical product, and has experience selling to C-level executives.

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

  • 2+ 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 deals closing you have been directly involved in
  • 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

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • quota-carrying AE
  • full-cycle deals
  • net-new logos
  • expansion
  • ARR revenue targets
  • closing experience
  • track record of being a top performer
  • deals closing you have been directly involved in
  • selling face to face to C level executives
  • technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions