Named Account Executive

1 Week ago • All levels • Business Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Named Account Executive at Salesforce, you'll act as a trusted digital advisor to current and prospective customers. You'll deeply understand their challenges and goals, collaborating on Salesforce Platform solutions to achieve business objectives. This role involves account strategy mapping, resource alignment, and close work with product specialists, solutions architects, and sales engineers. Responsibilities include identifying and qualifying opportunities, uncovering customer processes and challenges, and crafting compelling value propositions. Excellent communication and team-selling skills are crucial for success. Salesforce offers a comprehensive onboarding program, including a product bootcamp and mentorship.
Must have:
  • Quota-carrying technology sales experience
  • Account planning & strategy
  • Research & discovery of customer needs
  • Solution identification & value proposition
  • Effective customer communication
  • Resource utilization & team selling
Good to have:
  • Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
  • Sales methodology education
  • Strategic alliance development
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Consistent quota achievement
Perks:
  • Well-being reimbursement
  • Generous parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Fertility benefits

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

    • Account Executive

      Salesforce is looking for a curious and energetic Account Executive with knowledge of technology and value-based solution selling. This Business Unit sells the entire Salesforce platform. Think of yourself as the "General Manager" in this role - mapping account strategies, aligning resources and acting as the extension of your customer. You will work closely with other product specialists known as co-primes to help map out the best strategy for your customer. You will have technical support from solutions architects and sales engineers.

      Responsibilities:

      In this role, you will work closely with current and prospective customers as a trusted digital advisor to deeply understand their outstanding company challenges and goals.

      You will collaborate with customers on the Salesforce Platform to evangelize solutions that will help them reach their business goals and blaze new trails within their organizations. You will contribute to our business, as a valued member of our Ohana.

      Required Skills and Qualifications:
       

      • Demonstrated success of quota carrying, technology solution-based direct sales experience
      • Account Planning and Strategies: Establishes plans to achieve sales objectives by effectively identifying and qualifying opportunities.
      • Research and Discovery: Uncovers a prospect’s current processes, business challenges, and strategic goals based on customer use cases and value hypotheses.
      • Solutioning: Identifies compelling value propositions that address customer needs by demonstrating an understanding of technology solutions.
      • Customer Communication: Interacting with customers in a clear, concise, and timely manner using a variety of communication methods (writing, speech, presentation) and tools (whiteboarding, Google Slides, Zoom).
      • Resource Application: Continuously runs toward results using the full capabilities of available resources and tools.
      • Team Selling: Aligns with the full capacities of the account team and partners to support the deal and customer success.


      Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

      • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
      • Sales Methodology education.
      • Ability to develop cases and service requirements, while crafting and leading strategic alliances.
      • Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment
      • Track record of consistently achieving or surpassing quota
      • Bachelor Degree and or equivalent experience [ based on region ]


      Working at Salesforce

      Working at Salesforce isn’t all about selling. It’s also about learning, and we heavily invest in you with a month-long immersion and onboarding, including: a week-long product bootcamp, mentorship program, weekly coaching and development programs.

      Benefits & Perks
      Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more


      Note: By applying to the Account Executive posting, recruiters and hiring managers who support multiple cloud offerings and verticals across the organization hiring General Commercial Account Executives will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

      Accommodations
      If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.

      Posting Statement
      At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at Salesforce and explore our benefits.

      Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

Accommodations

If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.

Posting Statement

At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

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