Commercial Account Executive
Owns net-new commercial and mid-market sales across Ohio and Michigan, from prospecting and qualification through pipeline management and deal closure. The role requires 3–5 years of quota-carrying B2B sales experience, CRM expertise, and the ability to sell cloud infrastructure solutions through direct and partner channels.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build and manage a healthy pipeline targeting at least 3× assigned quota.
- Prospect commercial and mid-market accounts through calls, email, LinkedIn, partner engagement, events, and targeted account research.
- Qualify opportunities by assessing business pain, technical fit, decision process, urgency, competition, and budget.
- Present cloud-native file data platform and hybrid cloud storage value propositions to prospects and partners.
- Partner with VARs, solution providers, and cloud alliance partners, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google.
- Develop relationships with champions, technical influencers, economic buyers, and channel stakeholders.
- Use Salesforce or a similar CRM to maintain pipeline data, next steps, deal risks, forecasts, and activity tracking.
- Apply AI-enabled tools responsibly for account research, personalization, call preparation, meeting summaries, and pipeline organization while validating accuracy and protecting confidential information.
- Collaborate with sales, inside sales, channel, alliances, marketing, and sales leadership teams.
- Deliver consistent new-logo revenue and measurable pipeline growth.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of quota-carrying B2B sales experience, preferably following success in an SDR, BDR, or Senior SDR role.
- Demonstrated ability to prospect, qualify, manage pipeline, and close new business.
- Strong communication, discovery, presentation, objection-handling, and negotiation skills.
- Experience with Salesforce or a similar CRM and accurate forecasting.
- Strong organization, follow-through, resilience, and comfort with high activity levels.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience selling SaaS, cloud, storage, backup, recovery, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, networking, virtualization, or enterprise IT solutions.
- Experience with channel-assisted selling through VARs, systems integrators, or cloud alliances.
- Familiarity with CDW, SHI, Insight, WWT, Trace3, Presidio, AWS, Microsoft, or Google Cloud.
- Experience using AI tools for sales research, account planning, message development, or workflow efficiency with appropriate review and validation.
- Success creating net-new pipeline in commercial or mid-market accounts.
- Interest in cloud infrastructure, unstructured data, AI-ready data platforms, and enterprise IT modernization.
- Demonstrated quota attainment, partner leverage, and disciplined sales execution.
Benefits
- Paid time off, health, dental, and vision plans.
- Company-paid life and disability insurance.
- 401(k) and Roth IRA retirement plans.
- Paid holidays, wellbeing offerings, pre-tax savings accounts, and employee assistance program.
- Onboarding, training, professional development, referral bonuses, and flexible remote work.
Skills
B2B Sales, Salesforce, Pipeline Management, Prospecting, SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Backup And Recovery, Data Infrastructure, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, AI Tools
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