Academic Account Executive
Location
United States
Posted
18 days ago
Salary
$80K - $130K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 5 to 8+ years of full-cycle sales experience selling SaaS or software solutions to senior technical buyers. If you have not sold SaaS or software, please do not apply.
- Proven success achieving sales quota multiple years in a row at the same company.
- Experience closing new customers with an average order value of at least $5K to $20K.
- Experience with Salesforce, Outreach or SalesLoft, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
- Smart, curious salespeople who ask strong questions, use data to make decisions, and are self-motivated.
- We Prefer
- Understanding of cybersecurity and IT technologies and trends, or a demonstrated ability to sell complex software or SaaS technologies.
- Background in higher education sales, particularly selling to department heads and faculty. Knowledge of academic buying seasonality and processes is especially helpful.
- Things to Know
- You will be expected to generate 45 percent of your sales opportunity pipeline. Marketing will deliver the remaining 55 percent. We have a very strong marketing team.
- You will be provided a carefully selected set of prospect accounts that match our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). You are expected to investigate these accounts and understand them in depth.
- We have an organized, ongoing Sales Onboarding and Enablement program to help you learn what you need to succeed quickly. We also have a great RevOps team focused on improving our systems, data, and processes so you can spend more time selling and less time fighting tools.
- We have differentiated technology used by thousands of customers, and our 2026 product roadmap is amazing. You will have new, compelling products to sell.
- We use Salesforce, HubSpot, and Outreach. You are expected to be familiar with these tools when you join. We will help you learn our specific instances, but we are not going to teach people how to use Salesforce from scratch.
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