Strategic Account Executive

Canva Canva · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Canva is seeking a Strategic Account Executive in London to drive sales for Canva Enterprise solutions. The role involves account planning, pipeline management, customer relationship building, and acting as a product expert to help organizations leverage Canva's design and collaboration tools, including their AI platform Studio.

What you'd actually do

  1. Account Planning: You will lead with a data-driven approach to identify and reach out to potential customers who are likely to benefit from Canva's products. Analyse market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities.
  2. Managing Pipeline + Revenue Growth: You will manage pipeline, revenue forecasts, sales activity using Salesforce for maximum efficiency and visibility
  3. Customer Centric: You will leverage compelling storytelling and vision transfer, presented through a creative lens, to guide customers on a journey that feels personalised and right for them.
  4. Be a product expert: Exhibit a deep love for Canva’s product and an ability to sell creative solutions that address customers’ unique problems. You will gather customer feedback and convey market needs to inform the Product roadmap and provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience
  5. Foster long-term relationships: Recognise the value of building long-term relationships and strive to create lasting partnerships both with customers and internal cross functional teams (Product, Eng, Post-Sales, Customer Success).
  6. Bring chaos to clarity: Simplifying complex situations into digestible customer-ready stories and materials using Canva’s worksuite (presentations, doc etc.)

Skills

Required

  • Sales experience
  • Experience working with large strategic corporations
  • Experience with large named accounts
  • Global account management
  • Technology sales
  • Full sales cycle management
  • New logo acquisition
  • Complex business challenge resolution
  • Strategic planning
  • Presentation skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Adaptability in fast-paced environments
  • UK work rights

Nice to have

  • Experience in a technology company
  • Experience on a global scale (10,000+ employees)

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of sales experience
  • experience with large named accounts ideally on a global scale (10,000+ employees)
  • proven success managing a full sales cycle, including prospecting with a focus on new logo attainment
  • navigating complexity
  • crafting solutions
  • creating detailed plans that cover all the bases within intricate organisations
  • captivate an audience
  • leading successful (and complex) negotiations
  • full UK work rights