Account Executive
Job Summary
Job Description
Insider, a B2B SaaS company, is seeking an Account Executive in India with a strong hunter mindset for its hyper-growth MarTech scale-up. The role involves managing sales, achieving growth targets, and interacting with clients throughout the sales cycle, from prospecting to closing. Responsibilities include providing mentorship to the Sales Development Representative team, communicating the value proposition through proposals and presentations, identifying market trends, and developing new sales initiatives. The company offers a category leader product fueled by rapid growth and supported by all-star engineers. This position focuses on engaging with enterprise-level clients in India across various industries such as retail, finance, automotive, telecom, and travel.
Must have:
- Minimum 5 years quota-carrying sales experience in SaaS
- Knowledge of market research, sales, and negotiation
- Proven oral and written communication skills
- Savvy tech bug, searching for solutions
- Ability to succeed cross-functionally
- Superior project and time management skills
- Flexibility to work in a fast-paced startup environment
Good to have:
- Previous experience in retail, finance, automotive, telecom, and travel industries
Perks:
- Access to 16,000+ online courses on LinkedIn Learning
- Opportunity to share skills through training and workshops
- Paid Spotify account subscription
- International, diverse, and inclusive work environment
- Opportunity to work in an industry shaping future customer experiences
9 skills required
Job Details
Before jumping in on all the information about the role and what you can bring to the table, let us introduce ourselves real quick.
About us
We are Insider, a B2B SaaS company that drives growth for its clients around the world. How are we achieving this? We are the #1 AI-native platform for Customer Experience and Marketing—offers marketers a single platform to deliver unique experiences per person, drive profitable growth, and unleash peak productivity and efficiency. Our platform connects data across channels, predicts future behavior with AI, and individualizes experiences from a single platform.
We have just celebrated our $500M Series E funding round, led by General Atlantic. Before this, we’ve unlocked unicorn status following our Series D round. We are backed by top-notch investors, including Sequoia Capital, QIA, Riverwood, and Endeavor Catalyst, and trusted by 1200+ brands from high-growth startups to the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Coca-Cola, Nike, L’Oreal, Singapore Airlines, Virgin, Nestle, Nissan, Lenovo, Puma, IKEA, Allianz, Dominos, CNN, and the list goes on.
Having unlocked unicorn status, Insider was congratulated for becoming one of the only woman-founded, women-led B2B SaaS unicorns in the world, to achieve $200M in CARR (Committed Annual Recurring Revenue). Insider was named a leader in The Forrester Wave for Cross-Channel Campaign Management 2021, and Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Omnichannel Marketing Platforms for B2C Enterprises 2023 Assessment. The company has been recognized in The Top 1% of all software companies worldwide in G2’s 2024 Software Awards, and named in The Top 10 Best Software Products with the most #1 rankings alongside other software legends like Google, Zoom, and Monday.com. According to G2’s Spring’24 reports. Insider is also the #1 G2 Leader in 6+ categories, including Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Personalization Engines, Personalization Software, Mobile Marketing, Customer Journey Analytics, and e-commerce Personalization.
When our team founded Insider, they not only sought to create a product company but also to build the most socially progressive technology community in the world. Through our corporate social responsibility initiatives like 100Projects SheCodes, SheLeads, and SheMarkables, our community has committed to scaling its impact into our communities across 27+ countries, spearheading transformative projects in areas such as health, education, farming, animal rights, and increasing the proportional representation of women in STEM careers.
Behind all these achievements, there is an exceptionally talented and passionate team across 27+ countries that moves fast and agile, creates cutting-edge products, and focuses on making an impact. If you want to join us on this journey, just keep reading.
What you will do
This role calls for a strong hunter mindset and passion for working in a hyper-growth MarTech scale-up with a rapid sales cycle. Good news: our differentiated product is already in high demand! We have a world-class sales organization with a strong pipeline bombarded with inbound marketing leads and SDR lead generation. We’ve got clients from every vertical imaginable, and our client base speaks for itself. So, you will be lucky to have a category leader product fuelled by lightning-fast growth and our all-star engineers, and just as our co-founder/CRO promises, “if you stay humble and hungry, you’ll build a legacy here.”
If you are interested in further developing your sales career in SaaS, get ready to engage with enterprise-level clients in India market across various industries such as retail, finance, automotive, telecom, and travel through our product of client choice. (Actually, let’s make our clients do the talking. You can check their testimonials on our website!)
What you will do
- You will handle overall responsibility for managing sales, achieving growth, and hitting/exceeding annual sales targets.
- You will interact with clients at all the stages of the sales cycle, from prospecting and acquiring clients through demoing the platform to negotiating and closing.
- You will provide on-the-ground support/mentorship for Sales Development Representative (SDR) team to generate new qualified opportunities and pipelines through innovative outbound strategies.
- We create value by sharing thoughtful insights for our partners and potential partners. You will effectively communicate the value proposition through proposals and presentations. You also need to ensure that they get the most out of the deals we offer, such as free trials.
- You will be the guru of your own market and provide insight to the team on market trends, unmet needs, and opportunities to deliver greater value to clients by extending company offerings. You will identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status.
- You will develop and implement new sales initiatives, strategies, and programs to capture key demographics.
- You will present sales, revenue, and realistic forecasts to the management team.
- You will get supported by Marketing, Sales Operation, Sales Engineering, and Sales Enablement functions.
- To have consistent success, you will do accurate forecasting and maintain an up-to-date pipeline at all times. We believe sales is a balancing act!
What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related fields
- Minimum 5 years of quota-carrying sales experience, preferably in SaaS,
- Knowledge of market research, sales, and negotiating principles
- Proven oral and written communication abilities, effective phone skills, and exquisite listening skills
- Our technical knowledge goes well beyond that of any other salesperson. You need to be a savvy tech bug, always searching for solutions and ideas.
- Ability to succeed working cross-functionally with direct sales, marketing, and customer success teams
- Superior project and time management skills
- The ability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced startup environment
- Previous experience with retail, finance, automotive, telecom and travel industries is a big plus!
The perks
- We offer many hard and soft skills training to help you improve and challenge yourself. You’ll have access to 16,000+ online courses taught by real-world professionals on the LinkedIn Learning platform to satisfy your hunger for knowledge.
- You’ll have space to share your skills through training and workshops if you wish. Sharing is caring!
- We’ll provide you with a paid Spotify account subscription, so you can cozy up in your headsets cocoon whenever you want.
- You’ll have a chance to work in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment.
- You’ll be part of an industry that’s shaping the future of customer experiences.
- Don’t believe us? Just ask Google.
We are here to grow and drive growth. Together we are building a progressive culture that inspires us to create our life’s work and a bigger, bolder impact. If you are already feeling the excitement, just imagine yourself here taking part!
We provide equal opportunity in a zero-discrimination workplace and not just welcome but also embrace everyone without regard to sex, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or marital status.
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