Inside Account Executive - Strategic

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · United States · Enterprise Sales

This role is for an Inside Account Executive at Smartsheet, a company that provides work management solutions. The primary focus is on maximizing account growth within large enterprise customers by generating pipeline, closing volume deals, and partnering with field Account Executives. The role requires sales experience in software, the ability to articulate value propositions, and manage sales activities using tools like Salesforce. It is not directly involved in building or shipping AI/ML models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Consistently exceed quota
  2. Maximize booking output for volume license and capability attach deals
  3. Identify pipeline growth opportunities by analyzing and proactively targeting needs across multiple departments and lines of business
  4. Identify large solutions deals and pass to the field Account Executive
  5. Articulate and demonstrate Smartsheet’s unique business, solution, and functional value propositions and product(s) to validate proposed solutions

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience in software
  • Exceeded quota
  • Learning and applying new software technologies
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Discovering customer pain points and requirements
  • Aligning stakeholders to business value
  • Professional communication (written, verbal, presentation)
  • Organizational skills
  • Adaptability to evolving systems and processes
  • Creative problem solving
  • Strong work ethic
  • Team-oriented
  • Ability to learn core sales tools (Salesforce, Clari, SalesLoft, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn, Tableau)

Nice to have

  • Value based selling process

What the JD emphasized

  • 2+ years of sales experience in software
  • Consistently exceeded quota
  • Exhibited interest in learning, applying and demonstrating new software technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross functional teams towards common goals
  • Capability discovering customer pain points, requirements and aligning multiple stakeholder types to business value to budget and solutions scope
  • Exemplary professional communication skills -- written, verbal, presentation
  • Demonstrated organizational skills to manage numerous request and time demands concurrently from multiple sources, while achieving production goals from assigned territories
  • Ability to adapt to evolving systems, teams, processes, and products
  • Confidence and interest in creative problem solving
  • Strong work ethic; team oriented with a desire to compete & win
  • Excellent interactions both internally and externally with senior level corporate management
  • Experience with value based selling process preferred
  • Ability to learn core sales tools: Salesforce, Clari, SalesLoft, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn, Tableau