Enterprise Account Executive (Atlanta - Corporate)
Verkada
- Atlanta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Dedicate at least 50% of your time to field-based sales activities away from the workplace, including customer meetings, site visits, and relationship-building.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive territory plan
- Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics and quota, with a strong emphasis on generating net new business sales. This includes prospecting and outreach, providing product demos and trials, and engaging in strategic negotiations with customers and channel partners
- Meet or exceed individual targets and contribute to the overall team and company success. This includes proactively penetrating greenfield accounts and achieving a quarterly quota of at least 2-3 qualified net new logos
- Initiate and manage expansion discussions to drive customer retention. This includes identifying customers' goals and requirements, including budgetary constraints and key decision makers
- Devise a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy and partner with Verkada's channel partner sales organization to establish channel partner initiatives that result in a minimum of 5 deal registrations each quarter
- Drive business growth and enhance market presence and help enterprise organizations modernize their physical security solutions through a combination of customer engagements, marketing campaigns, executive briefings, industry conferences, events and physical security market knowledge/intelligence
- Gain an in-depth and detailed understanding of Verkada's business and products, as well as the physical security market to confidently sell to C-level executives within Enterprise organizations
- Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements
- Provide account analysis, conduct quarterly business reviews, and generate accurate revenue forecasts
- 5-10+ years quota carrying B2B software/hardware technology sales with focus on building a greenfield territory and landing new business within an Enterprise organization; 3+ years Enterprise sales is highly preferred
- Proven track record of success in a sales-driven organization selling a highly complex technical solution (with the awards and references to prove it)
- Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing major accounts against incumbents
- Willingness to have a strong field presence multiple days per week; Must live in territory & willingness to travel up to 50%
- A demonstrable track record of success managing longer, complex sales cycles and engaging with all levels from end users to business champions to C-level executives (Experience selling to CIO/CTO/CISO/CFO leaders at Fortune 1000 companies is highly preferred)
- Experience collaborating with internal and external channel partner teams to sell through and with channel partners is a plus
- Proven experience running a process-driven sales cycle
- Relevant software or hardware industry experience in any of the following domains; security software, physical security, or hardware, computer networking and “how the internet works”, subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software is a plus
- Strong knowledge and execution of MEDDIC is highly preferred
- Self-motivated, tenacious, confident, with a willingness to engage in prospecting to maintain individual funnels as expected
- Intellectually curious High IQ, EQ and self-awareness
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with peers, customers, and partners
- Thrive working in a fast paced dynamic environment with a strong sense of urgency
- BS/BA degree strongly preferred
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 80% for family premiums
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily