Enterprise Account Executive - Territory Accounts

Plaid · Fintech · New York, NY · Sales

Enterprise Account Executive role at Plaid, a fintech company focused on empowering financial transformation through developer tools. The role involves generating new enterprise deals, building relationships with large companies, and driving sales of Plaid's financial technology solutions. Requires 5+ years of SaaS sales experience and 1+ year in Enterprise Account Executive roles, with a track record of closing six-figure deals and experience selling technical products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify potential customers and run the end-to-end sales process
  2. Build and maintain relationships with your customers, including their engineering/product teams, and their executives
  3. Partner internally with Plaid’s New Business, Sales Engineering, Commercial, Product, and Leadership team to win deals
  4. Working a fresh territory - building your own book of business by identifying good fit accounts and high value use cases where Plaid can create impact for the customer
  5. Building and maintaining relationships with accounts by going both deep and wide - from executives, to product teams, to developers

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience
  • Enterprise Account Executive experience
  • Closing six-figure deals
  • Prospecting
  • Qualifying
  • Negotiating skills
  • Consultative sales approach
  • Solution-centric mindset
  • Experience working with sales development
  • Deploying a territory or vertical-focused revenue strategy
  • Selling technical products
  • Understanding complex solutions
  • Technical understanding of Plaid's product & use-cases

Nice to have

  • Excitement about understanding one of the more complex solutions in the market

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of Sales experience at a SaaS company
  • 1+ year of Enterprise Account Executive experience
  • A strong track record of closing six-figure deals
  • Experience selling technical products that create business value at the executive level
  • Desire to be overly technical about Plaid’s product & use-cases