Job description
Zendesk is looking for an enterprise account executive who is responsible for customer adoption, retention, and growth within a territoryWe need an experienced salesperson who has a consultative sales approach, a successful track record growing and on-boarding clients with polished presentation skills! enterprise account executives ultimately are responsible for their own success within their territory, ensuring incremental growth in monthly recurring revenue, new logo acquisitions, encouraging customer retention, whilst providing the best sales experience possible for our customers.
Responsibilities
Develop and champion relationships within accounts
Exceed monthly/quarterly sales targets by driving new opportunities and selling zendesk products into existing accounts
Generate short-term results whilst maintaining a long-term perspective to improve overall revenue generation
Work with multiple account executives in assigned territory to prioritize opportunities and apply appropriate resources
Demonstrate/sell value to key partners within the accounts during sophisticated sales cycles
Exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue goals on a quarterly basis
Track all opportunity and customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in salesforce
Partner with customer success to ensure high happiness within accounts!
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree
Experience selling to vp and c level executives
10+ years of software selling experience; saas experience preferred
Successful record of selling into mid-market and enterprise companies
Consistently deliver on 6+ figure deals
Experience managing and closing sophisticated sales-cycles using solution selling techniques
Validated quota achievement (top 10% at current company)
Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Team-selling experience a plus
Willingness to travel
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Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service onlineToday, zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 logos with hundreds of millions of customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites and help centersZendesk products are built with love to be lovedThe company was conceived in copenhagen, denmark, built and grown in california, taken public in new york city, and today employs more than 4,000 people across the worldLearn more at www.zendesk.com.
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