Strategic Account Executive 3
United StatesRemote5+ YOE
Summary
Strategic Account Executive managing and expanding High Tech customer relationships, driving full sales cycles for Twilio's communications API platform. Requires 5+ years sales experience (1+ strategic), quota attainment, and familiarity with sales tools like Salesforce and Gong.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Manage and strategically expand relationships with High Tech customer accounts.
- Develop, drive, and execute account strategy to deliver strong revenue, gross margin, and gross profit results.
- Drive the entire sales process from prospecting to deal closure, including launch.
- Run highly consultative sales cycles with deep discovery, understanding business needs, and championing customer point of view.
- Understand customer technical requirements and map to Twilio’s communications API platform to design solutions.
- Communicate effectively with all levels: developers, managers, executives.
- Serve on cross-functional account team with product, finance, partners, support, and services.
- Run disciplined forecast, achieve goals, and present to executive management.
Qualifications
Required:
- 5 years of sales experience, with minimum 1 year in major account or strategic sales and track record selling complex technical solutions.
- Accountable for net revenue retention/growth, relationship management, cross/upsells, solutions consulting.
- Comfortable working with business and technical leaders, influencing and building partnerships.
- Analytical account development using data to find opportunities and prove value.
- Demonstrated success exceeding quota consistently.
- Track record managing business forecasts and financial models.
- Entrepreneurial mindset to define processes and build programs.
- Ethical, hands-on, passionate, creative, team-player.
- Familiarity with Twilio tools: Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, LinkedIn SalesNav, Looker, Tableau, G-Suite (Google Sheets proficiency).
- Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
Desired:
- Experience selling API-based solutions.
- Deep experience with telecom companies (SMS aggregators, carriers, CPaaS/PaaS).
- Domain expertise in quantitative industries (DevOps, Fintech, advertising, investment banking, security, commodity trading).
- Software, SaaS, CPaaS or PaaS selling experience.
Compensation
- Estimated pay ranges (for specific states only): $103,376 - $143,580 base, plus commissions and equity eligibility.
- Benefits: health care, 401(k), paid time off, parental leave.
Skills
SalesforceGongOutreachLinkedIn SalesNavLookerTableauGoogle SheetsAPICPaaSPaaSSaaS