Strategic Account Executive

Responsibilities

• Manage and expand revenue across your book of Strategic Accounts
• Develop, drive, and execute account strategy to consistently deliver strong revenue, gross margin, and gross profit results
• Partner closely with other Twilio teams to identify new revenue opportunities within your account portfolio
• Serve on a cross-functional account team with representatives from product, finance, support, and services teams
• Run a disciplined forecast, consistently achieve goals, and present guidance to executive management
• Run highly consultative sales cycles with our largest customers with a focus on deep discovery, listening to customer needs and being an effective champion for their point of view in the organization
• Generate and maintain an accurate sales pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce

Requirements

• 5 years of sales experience, with a minimum of 1 year dedicated to major account or strategic sales
• Expertise in managing or leading quantitative, highly analytical products and solutions for customers
• Accountable for relationship management, cross sells, upsells and solutions consulting
• Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships
• Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value
• Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models
• Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define process and build programs
• Record of delivering revenue and gross profit results, especially for large-scale and enterprise customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience

Nice-to-Haves

• Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms
• Domain expertise from a highly quantitative industry such as DevOps, Fintech, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments
• Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experience

Compensation & Benefits

• Health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave
• Eligible to earn commissions
• Eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan