Enterprise Account Executive

Canva Canva · Enterprise · Los Angeles, CA +1 · Sales

Canva is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to join their Sales and Success team, focusing on Canva Enterprise. This role involves understanding customer goals, providing tailored solutions, managing pipeline and revenue growth, acting as a product expert, and fostering long-term relationships. The primary focus is on selling Canva's design and collaboration tools, including their AI platform Studio, to organizations. The role requires experience in managing full sales cycles, navigating complex business challenges, and closing deals within large corporations.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will lead with a data-driven approach to identify and reach out to potential customers who are likely to benefit from Canva's products. Analyze market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities.
  2. You will manage pipeline, revenue forecasts, sales activity using Salesforce for maximum efficiency and visibility
  3. You will leverage compelling storytelling and vision transfer, presented through a creative lens, to guide customers on a journey that feels personalized and right for them.
  4. Exhibit a deep love for Canva’s product and an ability to sell creative solutions that address customers’ unique problems. You will gather customer feedback and convey market needs to inform the Product roadmap and provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience
  5. Recognize the value of building long-term relationships and strive to create lasting partnerships both with customers and internal cross functional teams (Product, Eng, Post-Sales, Customer Success).
  6. Simplifying complex situations into digestible customer-ready stories and materials using Canva’s worksuite (presentations, doc etc.)

Skills

Required

  • Experience working with a range of customers, from medium-sized businesses to large corporations within a technology company
  • Proven success managing a full sales cycle, including prospecting with a focus on new logo attainment
  • Ability to navigate complexity by understanding and addressing complex business challenges, crafting solutions
  • Talent for creating detailed plans that cover all the bases within intricate organizations
  • Skills to captivate an audience, especially during face-to-face meetings with multiple key players
  • Track record of leading successful (and complex) negotiations
  • Comfort navigating uncertainty and ability to keep up in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

  • Salesforce

What the JD emphasized

  • top performance
  • proven success managing a full sales cycle
  • new logo attainment
  • navigating complexity
  • complex business challenges
  • detailed plans
  • intricate organizations
  • captivate an audience
  • multiple key players
  • complex negotiations