Small Business & Growth Business - Account Executive - Chicago

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Chicago, IL

This role is for an Account Executive at Salesforce, focusing on selling the Salesforce AI CRM platform and its associated cloud solutions to small and growth businesses. The role involves building relationships with business leaders, understanding their priorities, and connecting them to the right Salesforce solutions to drive business outcomes and ROI. While the company heavily emphasizes AI and uses AI tools in its recruiting process, the core function of this role is sales, not the direct development or deployment of AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Sell the Salesforce platform, or a specific cloud solution, across a portfolio of existing customers and new logo accounts.
  2. Develop a deep understanding of how businesses operate and what drives decisions at the C-level, building credibility as a trusted advisor.
  3. Generate and manage pipeline by uncovering business challenges, mapping solutions across multiple lines of business, and selling on value and return on investment.
  4. Partner with an extended internal team to build business cases, develop strategic account plans, and deliver compelling presentations to customers.

Skills

Required

  • 2–5 years of full cycle sales experience
  • at least 1 year in a field sales role
  • proven track record of quota attainment
  • Experience managing existing accounts and/or acquiring net new logo accounts
  • Experience selling to or engaging with C-suite stakeholders
  • Ability to build a business case and articulate return on investment to customers

Nice to have

  • Experience crafting a point of view and positioning yourself as a trusted advisor with customers
  • Ability to strategize with large, extended internal teams to drive deals forward
  • Experience building and delivering customer-facing presentations