Strategic Account Executive

Canva Canva · Enterprise · Chicago, IL +1 · Sales

Canva is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to join their Sales and Success team, focusing on Canva Enterprise. The role involves building relationships with customers, understanding their goals, and providing tailored solutions using Canva's product suite, including their AI platform 'Studio'. The executive will manage pipeline, revenue growth, act as a product expert, gather customer feedback, and foster long-term relationships. The position requires extensive full-cycle selling experience, particularly with large named accounts in technology companies, and a proven track record of top performance in navigating complexity and closing deals.

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. Analyze 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 personalized 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: Recognize 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

  • 8+ years of full cycle selling experience
  • Experience with large named accounts
  • Experience in a technology company
  • Proven success managing a full sales cycle
  • Prospecting with a focus on new logo attainment
  • Navigating complexity and addressing complex business challenges
  • Creating detailed plans
  • Captivating an audience
  • Leading successful negotiations

Nice to have

  • Global scale experience
  • Experience with Canva's product suite

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of full cycle selling experience working with a range of customers, from medium-sized businesses to large corporations. For our Strategic role, we are looking for people with experience with large named accounts ideally on a global scale within a technology company, demonstrating a history of top performance.
  • You have proven success managing a full sales cycle, including prospecting with a focus on new logo attainment.
  • You’re a pro at navigating complexity by understanding and addressing complex business challenges, crafting solutions.
  • You've got a talent for creating detailed plans that cover all the bases within intricate organizations.
  • You've got the skills to captivate an audience, especially during face-to-face meetings with multiple key players.
  • You've got a track record of leading successful (and complex) negotiations.