Senior Account Executive

Twilio Twilio · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales

Twilio is seeking a Senior Account Executive to drive new business acquisition for their Messaging, Voice, and Email products. This role involves prospecting, solution selling, and closing deals with mid-market and enterprise companies. The Account Executive will work closely with customers to understand their requirements and match them to Twilio's CPaaS platform, collaborating with internal teams like product management, finance, and solutions engineering. The position requires a strong understanding of the CPaaS ecosystem and technical SaaS sales experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive new customer acquisition, while being assigned a quota for iACV (incremental Account Contract Value)
  2. Own highly analytical and consultative sales cycles to win business in competitive vendor sourcing cycles with Twilio’s messaging (e.g. SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Business Messages, Account Security, etc.), voice and email solutions.
  3. Work with customers across assigned verticals to understand their business and technical requirements, and match them to the capabilities of Twilio’s communications API platform, designing a solution for their specific use cases.
  4. Work with teams in Finance, Legal, Pricing, and Operations to design mutually beneficial contracts to address customer requirements, while balancing the needs of our business.
  5. Be passionate about what you do, think outside the box, and use world-class interpersonal and communication skills to present complex contractual, technical, and financial details to prospects in a way that builds confidence and comfort in the proposed solution.

Skills

Required

  • 10 years of full cycle sales experience
  • 3 years managing or leading quantitative highly analytical products or solutions
  • Directly selling technical SaaS or CPaaS
  • Experience outbound prospecting into install base, greenfield prospecting into new accounts, and executing strong QBR strategy for territory penetration
  • Technical solutions selling experience working with real customers, listening to them, and solving problems
  • Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships
  • Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value
  • Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define process and build programs
  • Record of delivering market driven results, especially to scale and enterprise customers
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience

Nice to have

  • Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms.
  • Domain expertise from a highly quantitative industry such as DevOps, Fintech, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments.
  • Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experience.

What the JD emphasized

  • technical SaaS
  • technical SaaS
  • highly analytical
  • highly analytical