Enterprise Account Executive

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Account Management • $280,000 PA - $330,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Enterprise Account Executive will lead sales for ThousandEyes in the Michigan region, focusing on new customer acquisition and channel partners. The role involves developing strategic relationships, creating account plans, and driving sales in areas such as territory planning, pipeline development, presentations, and closing deals. This individual contributor role requires meeting sales objectives and revenue targets. Responsibilities include identifying sales opportunities, managing the sales process, collaborating with internal teams, and building customer relationships. The role requires a results-oriented attitude and involves demonstrating products, and negotiating contracts. You will be responsible for maintaining accounts and ensuring customer success.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of sales territory management experience
  • Experience selling enterprise software to network buyers
  • A proven track record of exceeding quota
  • Self-motivated and able to solve problems
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Perks:
  • Access to medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance and wellbeing offerings
  • Up to twelve paid holidays per year
  • Up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year
  • Paid time away for critical or emergency issues
  • Paid time to volunteer
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job Details

 

Who We Are

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end- user experiences.

ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

About The Role

The Account Executive will lead the sales process for ThousandEyes within the Enterprise Michigan region for prospective customers and channel partners. They will deliver growth in new business across the assigned territory through the development of strategic relationships with commercial accounts. The AE will build and execute well-defined account plans and drive success in the following areas: territory planning, pipeline development, presentation and delivery, trial process management, pricing, negotiation, and the closing process. This is an individual contributor and quota carrying position. 

What You’ll Do

  • Identify and source sales opportunities that align with the ideal customer profile for ThousandEyes for the purposes of maximizing solution value and product adoption. 
  • Initiate contact and professional follow-up for all sales meetings within the assigned territory.  
  • Meet all sales objectives and bookings targets in accordance with company growth expectations and develop revenue expansion opportunities across a base of accounts. 
  • Work side by side with Cisco Account Managers and other Cisco sales specialist to help drive ThousandEyes revenue growth. 
  • Work closely and collaboratively with Customer Success to drive product adoption and usage, as well as with Product Management to understand future requirements to accelerate demand for ThousandEyes in the market. 
  • Highly organized with a results-oriented attitude; adept and detailed in delivering sales presentations, onsite visits and product demonstrations to prospective clients. 
  • Foster mutually beneficial relationships with ThousandEyes customers and partners in a consistent, effective and professional manner. 
  • Meet or exceed quarterly / yearly bookings targets, while delivering consistent and reliable forecasting 
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive account strategy  
  • Accelerate new customer acquisition and upsell growth in existing accounts, while maintaining an accurate sales pipeline 
  • Work closely with customers and channel partners to drive market adoption of ThousandEyes solutions 
  • Lead pricing discussions and contract negotiations 
  • Develop long-term strategic relationships with customers 
  • Responsible for complete and accurate ongoing maintenance of accounts, forecasts, proposals, and account activity in Salesforce.com 
  • Relentlessly ensure customer success 

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of sales territory management experience working for a technology vendor selling enterprise software to network buyers. SaaS sales experience a plus 
  •  A proven track record of consistently exceeding quota
  • Self-motivated, able to solve problems and work with limited direction 
  • Demonstrate Leadership skills 
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills 
  • Must be comfortable working in a high growth environment, where everyone must have the “roll up your sleeves” and get it done attitude 
  • BS/BA degree preferred

Cisco values the perspectives and skills that emerge from employees with diverse backgrounds. That's why Cisco is expanding the boundaries of discovering top talent by not only focusing on candidates with educational degrees and experience but also placing more emphasis on unlocking potential. We believe that everyone has something to offer and that diverse teams are better equipped to solve problems, innovate, and create a positive impact.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification. Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy. We urge you not to prematurely exclude yourself and to apply if you're interested in this work.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

US – COMPENSATION RANGE – MESSAGE TO APPLICANTS

280,000 USD - 330,000 USD

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S.:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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About The Company

The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. ThousandEyes gives organizations visibility into the now borderless network, arming them with an accurate understanding of how the network impacts their applications, users and customers. ThousandEyes is used by some of the world's largest and fastest growing brands, including all of the top 5 global software companies, 5 of the top 6 US banks, and 45 of the Fortune 500.

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