Strategic Account Executive, Southeast

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 involves sourcing and closing net new logos, navigating complex organizations, understanding customer business objectives, collaborating with internal partners, delivering ARR revenue targets, developing sales strategies, providing feedback to corporate functions, creating ROI reports, and running POCs.

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
  • Top performer track record
  • Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product
  • Adaptability in a fast-growing and changing environment
  • Closing complex deals
  • Selling into complex organizations
  • Uncovering greenfield opportunities
  • Building out a new territory
  • Building relationships with C-level executives
  • Selling face-to-face to C-level executives
  • Knowledge of best of breed softwares
  • Technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
  • Selling technical SaaS
  • Selling cloud-based software solutions
  • Target account selling
  • Solution selling
  • MEDDIC and Challenger methodologies

Nice to have

  • Basic understanding of search infrastructure
  • Experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & Engineers

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
  • 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