Senior Account Executive - Enterprise Sales

New Relic New Relic · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Enterprise

Senior Account Executive for Enterprise Sales at New Relic, focusing on selling observability solutions to companies adopting AI and other digital transformation initiatives. The role involves expanding top-of-funnel, driving account acquisition, executing sales, and demonstrating product proficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Expanding Top of Funnel – Complement centralized marketing campaigns with own prospecting, develop relationships and alignment at multiple levels – C level executive sponsors, influencers, and day-to-day users. Establish positive relationships that drive interest.
  2. Driving Account Acquisition – Own territory and cultivate relationships with all pertinent stakeholders within target accounts to maximize sales into new accounts with the objective of being part of the customers’ long-term business solution. Identify customer needs and then configuring an appropriate offering from our portfolio to meet those needs.
  3. Driving Sales Execution – Use New Relic’s sales process to close large-scale, multi-year subscription-based deals. Prepare accurate forecasts, building a pipeline to cover bookings target, documenting activities in Salesforce, and performing other tasks necessary to drive revenue and communicate activities to sales management.
  4. Selling with Customer Focus – Diagnose each account’s business plan and existing technology stack. Review public information for the company and its competitors to remain updated on potential demand triggers.
  5. Demonstrating New Relic Product Proficiency – Be proficient with a working knowledge across New Relic’s product lines and quantifying business value for customers.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Extensive experience in a quota-carrying sales experience as an account owner at a software/technology company with a focus on new business acquisition
  • Track record of tenacity and driving results with a sense of urgency
  • Track record of closing multi-year and subscription/consumption-based SaaS deals
  • Proven ability to cultivate relationships based on advising on quality or manufacturing insights, best practices and strategy
  • Excellent leadership and strong ability of working with and indirectly managing sales support colleagues
  • Viewed as an expert in domain by accounts
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

What the JD emphasized

  • quota-carrying sales experience
  • new business acquisition
  • closing multi-year and subscription/consumption-based SaaS deals