Corporate Account Executive, Mumbai

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Mumbai, India

This role is for a Corporate Account Executive in Mumbai, responsible for driving new business and acquiring new customers for CrowdStrike's cybersecurity platform. The role involves managing a sales territory, running the end-to-end sales process, collaborating with Sales Engineers and SDRs, forecasting, and providing customer success management for renewals and upsells. It requires strong sales experience, technical aptitude, and the ability to learn new concepts quickly.

What you'd actually do

  1. Actively engage our prospective customers to identify new opportunities within Mumbai region.
  2. Run a sophisticated end-to-end sales process from prospecting to closure.
  3. Collaborate with our Sales Engineers (SE’s) to devise and execute account strategies and plans.
  4. Work with our Sales Development Representative (SDR) function to establish pipeline building activities.
  5. Forecast and report updates to the management team.

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience
  • cold calling
  • generating net new business
  • selling a complex multi-product architecture
  • sell into C-level executives to evaluator-level engineers
  • Track record of exceeding expectations in an individually focused, quota carrying role
  • Technical aptitude
  • learn new business and technical concepts quickly
  • Persistence
  • Coachability
  • Charismatic
  • Sharp/Quick Witted
  • Creative
  • Motivated
  • Aptitude
  • Confidence with absence of ego
  • Self-Disciplined
  • Self-aware

Nice to have

  • Cyber Security industry experience
  • Security and/or SaaS Sales experience
  • Experience with cloud-native security platforms and solutions
  • Knowledge of endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • drive new business opportunities
  • attack the market with passion
  • build business
  • exceeding expectations
  • quota carrying role
  • sets their sights above and beyond
  • blow out their established targets and quotas