Mid-market Account Executive, Emea

Retool Retool · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Retool is looking for a Mid-Market Account Executive in EMEA to own deals from start to finish, manage multiple deals concurrently, navigate org structures, and alleviate prospect pain points by showing them the possibility, value, and impact of Retool. The role involves building pipeline, collaborating with Sales Engineers, managing a book of business, and building a playbook for future team members. The ideal candidate is comfortable engaging with engineers, navigating technical discussions, and bringing best practices and sales acumen to close deals quickly. The role also involves working cross-functionally with Success, Marketing, and Engineering teams, and reporting to the Head of Commercial in EMEA. The company is described as having an innovative AI product.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and qualify leads and develop them into high-value opportunities.
  2. Build relationships and establish communications at the highest executive levels in your accounts to understand their needs and priorities, and to speed up and simplify the deal process.
  3. Own the closing process, including negotiations and procurement activities.
  4. Keep Salesforce up to date with customer information, forecasts, and pipeline data so we can learn more about our business and our sales process.
  5. Develop and execute a strategic territory plan to meet monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue objectives.

Skills

Required

  • Experience hitting a quota of $1M+ of ARR per year.
  • Experience managing end-to-end SaaS sales cycles with mid-market companies (250-2,500 employees).
  • A track record of success in driving consistent activity and pipeline development.
  • A solution-based approach to selling and the ability to manage a sales process.
  • Excellent presentation and listening skills, organization, and contact management capabilities.
  • A hands-on approach to learning technical concepts and leading technical discussions internally and externally with stakeholders of all levels.

Nice to have

  • Previous experience preferred in developer tools, cloud infrastructure, databases, and/or business intelligence.
  • A strong desire and willingness to learn and build as our product and processes evolve.

What the JD emphasized

  • aggressive goals
  • own deals from start to finish
  • manage multiple deals concurrently
  • alleviate our prospects’ pain points
  • build your pipeline
  • win deals across the board
  • running point on key deals
  • managing a book of business
  • building a playbook
  • adept at listening to and engaging with engineers
  • navigate technical discussions and decisions
  • drive to close deals quickly
  • sales forecasting meetings
  • close deals
  • innovative AI product
  • Identify and qualify leads
  • develop them into high-value opportunities
  • Build relationships
  • establish communications at the highest executive levels
  • understand their needs and priorities
  • speed up and simplify the deal process
  • Own the closing process
  • negotiations and procurement activities
  • Keep Salesforce up to date
  • customer information, forecasts, and pipeline data
  • learn more about our business and our sales process
  • Develop and execute a strategic territory plan
  • meet monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue objectives
  • Work with technical stakeholders and executives
  • identify opportunities for Retool to accelerate Engineering within their org
  • Partner with sales engineers and the executive team
  • create relationships within all levels of key accounts
  • Collaborate with Engineering to identify and deploy new features
  • continuously increase the value of Retool
  • hitting a quota of $1M+ of ARR per year
  • managing end-to-end SaaS sales cycles
  • track record of success in driving consistent activity and pipeline development
  • solution-based approach to selling
  • manage a sales process
  • Excellent presentation and listening skills, organization, and contact management capabilities
  • hands-on approach to learning technical concepts
  • leading technical discussions internally and externally
  • stakeholders of all levels
  • strong desire and willingness to learn and build
  • product and processes evolve