Strategic Account Executive, New England

Glean Glean · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Sales

Glean is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive new business and growth within its largest enterprise prospects by developing tailored strategies to break into and expand major accounts. This role demands sophisticated account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building to deliver on customer pain points and priority business outcomes. The role will build a territory in the Northeast region and play a key role in shaping Glean’s presence among industry-leading organizations and advancing its mission to transform work with AI.

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 experience in Sales
  • Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product
  • Ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
  • Closing complex deals
  • Selling into complex organizations
  • Building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
  • Technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
  • Selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions

Nice to have

  • Basic understanding of search infrastructure
  • Previous experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & Engineers
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies

What the JD emphasized

  • 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
  • Have clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizations
  • 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