Principal Growth Account Executive - DACH

Job Description:

A Principal Growth Account Executive is responsible for the revenue expansion of their accounts in primarily the DACH region. With identified accounts, the AE will ensure revenue growth, customer success and long term partnership with assigned customers.
You will also work closely with and provide direction to the extended account team (solution consultants, business development reps and customer success managers), to identify the best 'plan of attack', increase efficiencies, and develop winning tactics and strategies for your accounts.

Who you’re committed to being:

• You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.

• You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.

• When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.

• You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link.

• You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others.

What you’ll do:

•  Ownership of the full sales cycle from lead to close with primarily DACH business customers

• Effectively build trust-based relationships with senior-level sales professionals

• Identify and understand the customer’s strategy and the related capability and skills requirements

• Help educate customers on the value of Pluralsight throughout the adoption cycle through jointly developed and agreed success criteria and provide recommendations based on customers’ business needs and usage patterns

• Develop and set a strategy aligned to the goals set that enables Pluralsight ‘s growth within existing businesses and building new business opportunities 

Experience you’ll bring:

• Expert on Solution-Selling, Customer-centric Selling, Strategic Selling, the Challenger sale, Business Impact Selling and/or Value Selling.

• Experience managing a pipeline and closing contracts within mid-market.

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills in English and German both with customers and within Pluralsight.

• Full sales cycle expertise with an emphasis on business development, heavy prospecting, building pipeline, pipeline management, developing mutual buying plans, closing and forecasting business.

Requirements:

• Preferable experience selling in a SaaS organization, ideally with multi-year SaaS contracts into the C-Suite.

• The ability to travel, while not required is encouraged

• Requires a minimum of 5 years of related or equivalent experience; or 3+ years with an advanced degree. 

About us:

Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. Pluralsight provides highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

EEOC Statement

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