Strategic Account Executive

Zillow Zillow · Consumer · United States · Remote

This role is for senior sales professionals who have proven their ability to become experts in an industry and are able to confidently present as a trusted advisor during the sales cycle. They specialize in managing a focused portfolio of high-value accounts, achieving quotas by building deeper relationships and understanding each account's unique business needs. This allows them to uncover multiple opportunities to address their most pressing challenges. These professionals will develop and implement a highly customized sales strategy for managing complex sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders and product areas.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage a large book of accounts and achieve quota by engaging with multiple stakeholders.
  2. Drive new enterprise business growth through a proactive hunter mentality, identifying and securing new client opportunities. While initial relationships may evolve through land-and-expand motions, account handoffs to Growth & Retention (G&R) teams will occur post-acquisition.
  3. Provide strong handoff experiences and collaborate with internal teams such as Product and Support.
  4. Handle complex escalations and custom business or product requirements.
  5. Articulate products and services and determine qualified prospects with a high activation and implementation rate.

Skills

Required

  • B2B sales role
  • Challenger and SPIN sales methodologies
  • top-down and bottom-up selling motions
  • proactive, hunter-oriented sales approach
  • self-sourcing skills
  • strategically managing a large book of accounts
  • selling business transformations
  • accurately forecast monthly/quarterly quota attainment
  • using data and analytics to advise decision-making
  • track and forecast account performance
  • selling in-person
  • managing a presentation with executives
  • team selling with colleagues

Nice to have

  • selling complex products and/or a multi-product platform at a technology company to mid size bus

What the JD emphasized

  • complex sales cycles
  • complex business or product requirements
  • complex industry with changing regulatory dynamics or selling a complex product
  • complex sales processes
  • complex products
  • multi-product platform