Strategic Account Executive

Glean Glean · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales

Glean is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive new business and growth within their largest enterprise prospects. This role involves sophisticated account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building to deliver on customer pain points and priority business outcomes. The executive will be responsible for sourcing and closing net new logos, navigating complex organizations, understanding customer business objectives, and collaborating with internal partners to drive deals forward. The role requires a strong track record in closing complex deals, selling technical SaaS, and understanding technical concepts like integrations, APIs, and infrastructure management. The company is a Work AI platform that helps enterprises work smarter with AI, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents.

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

  • 8+ 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
  • Ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
  • 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
  • Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions
  • Create ROI and business justification reports based off of a data driven approach
  • Run tight POCs based off of business success criteria

Nice to have

  • Basic understanding of search infrastructure is a plus
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • drive new business and growth within our largest enterprise prospects
  • sophisticated account research
  • executive-level messaging
  • champion-building
  • customer pain points
  • priority business outcomes
  • build a territory
  • shaping Glean’s presence
  • advancing our mission to transform work with AI
  • 8+ 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
  • adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
  • clear examples of closing complex deals
  • selling into complex organizations
  • Effectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities
  • building out a new territory
  • building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
  • Knowledge of best of breed softwares
  • technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
  • Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions
  • consistently deliver ARR revenue targets
  • drive success through a metric based approach
  • Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings
  • Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions
  • Create ROI and business justification reports based off of a data driven approach
  • Run tight POCs based off of business success criteria