Account Executive

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Mid-Market Account Executive responsible for creating sales strategies and pipelines for Orkes Cloud platform. Focusing on customer relationships and achieving sales goals in a remote setting.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify and qualify new business opportunities through prospecting, networking, and cold outreach
  • Obsess on achieving daily & weekly against prospecting targets, across your assigned territory accounts, to build a favorable pipeline gap of 3:2:2
  • Develop and execute strategic sales plans to target mid-market accounts
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with developers, key decision-makers, and stakeholders
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including marketing, product, and customer success to drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction
  • Focus on forecasting accurately and maintaining favorable coverage across commit, best-case and most-likely for the current quarter
  • Obsess over compressing sales cycles and obtaining early verbal commitments from customer
  • Work with Orkes revenue leadership to move the deal from verbal to close within the forecast
  • Track daily sales activities and maintain CRM hygiene by accurately capturing the details that are required by Orkes leadership in our CRM system
  • Consistently follow MEDDPICC across your opportunities and develop close plans for the opportunities within the current quarter forecast
  • Execute sales-plays defined by Orkes leadership team to develop the right customer opportunities
  • Stay informed about market trends, competitor activities, and industry developments to inform sales strategies and tactics
  • Achieve and exceed monthly and quarterly sales targets and KPIs to drive company growth and revenue
  • Collaborate with Customer Success team for identifying value opportunities for account expansion
  • Provide exceptional customer service and support throughout the sales cycle to build long-term partnerships and maximize customer lifetime value.

Requirements:

  • You are fanatical prospector who obsess over building your pipeline
  • Experience in a Sales and/or Business Development role within a high growth organization, preferably with startups that achieved growth across its open source install base.
  • Experience working successfully across the spectrum of sales (strategy, lead generation, business closing, relationship nurturing)
  • Outstanding communication skills including both phone and written communication as well as active listening
  • Self-starter with a record of overachieving against your quota along with an incredibly high activity rate and constant obsession with attaining your monthly and quarterly budget
  • Rigorous Sales Methodology and Sales Process knowledge, proven by accurate forecasts and clear communication throughout the deal cycle
  • Experience selling to developers as well as engineering leadership

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Flexible PTO
  • Support for personal development