Enterprise Account Executive

Canva Canva · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +1 · Sales

Canva is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to join their Sales and Success team, focusing on Canva Enterprise. The role involves understanding customer goals, providing tailored solutions, managing pipeline and revenue growth, and acting as a product expert. The Account Executive will foster long-term relationships and simplify complex situations for clients, working with various internal teams and external departments. The position requires experience with technology companies, managing full sales cycles, navigating complexity, and leading negotiations. The role is based in San Francisco, CA, with a salary range of $212,000-$326,000.

What you'd actually do

  1. Account Planning: 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. Managing Pipeline + Revenue Growth: You will manage pipeline, revenue forecasts, sales activity using Salesforce for maximum efficiency and visibility
  3. Customer Centric: 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. Be a product expert: 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. Foster long-term relationships: 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. Bring clarity to chaos: 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 understand and address complex business challenges, crafting solutions
  • Skills to create 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

What the JD emphasized

  • top performance
  • proven success managing a full sales cycle
  • new logo attainment
  • navigating complexity
  • complex business challenges
  • detailed plans that cover all the bases within intricate organizations
  • captivate an audience
  • leading successful (and complex) negotiations
  • navigating uncertainty
  • fast-paced environment