Strategic Account Executive

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Sales

Glean is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive new business and growth within their largest enterprise prospects. This role involves developing tailored strategies, conducting account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building to deliver on customer pain points and business outcomes. The position requires a strong track record in closing complex deals, understanding technical SaaS products, and driving ARR revenue targets.

What you'd actually do

  1. Source and close net new logos within a given territory
  2. Have the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and identify executive sponsors and champions
  3. Research and understand the business objectives of your customers and have the ability to perform a value drive sales cycle
  4. Collaborate with internal partners to move deals forward and ensure customer success
  5. You will consistently deliver ARR revenue targets and drive success through a metric based approach

Skills

Required

  • Closing sales experience
  • Complex deal closing
  • Navigating complex organizations
  • Executive-level messaging
  • Account research
  • Value-driven sales cycle
  • Sales strategy development
  • Pipeline generation
  • Revenue target achievement
  • Technical SaaS sales
  • Cloud-based software sales
  • Relationship building with C-level executives

Nice to have

  • Basic understanding of search infrastructure
  • Experience with target account selling
  • Experience with solution selling
  • Experience with MEDDIC and Challenger methodologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of closing experience in Sales with a track record of being a top performer
  • Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product and have the ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
  • Have clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizations
  • Effectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities and building out a new territory
  • Previous experience building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
  • Knowledge of best of breed softwares and a technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
  • Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions