Senior Account Executive, Scale

Braze Braze · Enterprise · New York, NY · Sales

This role is for a Senior Account Executive at Braze, a customer engagement platform company. The role focuses on owning the full sales cycle for new business, acting as a trusted advisor to clients, and working with Marketing, Product, and Technical executives. While the company utilizes AI in its platform (BrazeAI), this role is in sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing to renewals.
  2. Be working as a relentless “hunter” to identify, prioritize, reach out, and ultimately close new business.
  3. Have the opportunity to work side-by-side managing several Braze customer accounts, operating as a trusted advisor as they look to Braze to grow and scale their businesses.
  4. Join a scaling, diverse, and tight-knit team that’s working directly with Marketing, Product, and Technical executives and their teams to help them forge human connections between consumers and the brands they love.

Skills

Required

  • At least 3-5 years of New Business sales experience selling SaaS solutions that involve technically integrated products
  • Excel at generating and managing your own pipeline, thinking both strategically and creatively about how to drive desired outcomes through effective and persistent outreach.
  • Customers describe your selling as consultative and human. You’re a natural storyteller and an attentive listener
  • Demonstrate the mechanics of a value-first conversation, including the steps necessary to get there: strong and ongoing discovery, a solid understanding of the business pain, what outcomes they are hoping to achieve, and how Braze is best positioned to provide differentiated value
  • Analytical and data-driven. Your approach is grounded in examples and defined by testing and iterating. You harbor a desire to understand and make sense of complex systems and concepts
  • Know how to help buyers navigate large SaaS investments, including how to mobilize distributed, global organizations and accelerate cycles. Among many stakeholders, you identify and influence key people
  • Comfortable learning new things (tech, process, people) and navigating high-change environments

Nice to have

  • Sold to Growth/Marketing teams, or have a background in analytics, CRM, marketing automation, data storage/agility, or content marketing solutions