Senior Account Executive, New Business
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Senior Account Executive selling Everbridge critical-event management SaaS to public and private utilities. Owning new-logo sales, strategic accounts, forecasting, and enterprise negotiations.
Responsibilities:
- Help public and private utilities streamline operations with enterprise SaaS solutions
- Sell directly into the utilities industry, win new business, and grow strategic accounts
- Manage a defined portfolio of large public and privately owned utilities and energy providers across power generation, transmission, and distribution
- Own the full new-logo sales cycle from territory planning and prospecting through discovery, qualification, evaluation, commercial negotiation, and contract execution
- Build and maintain self-generated pipeline to achieve quarterly and annual sales objectives
- Develop strategic account plans, identify whitespace, and create territory penetration strategies
- Build multi-threaded relationships across Security, IT, Risk, Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Procurement, Legal, Finance, and executive leadership
- Lead structured qualification processes and establish customer pain, business impact, decision criteria, stakeholders, economic buyer, competition, compelling event, and timing
- Create and maintain Mutual Action Plans
- Develop executive-level business cases connecting Everbridge capabilities to customer outcomes, operational risk, financial impact, and strategic priorities
- Build solution strategies, including phased or tiered approaches when appropriate
- Manage opportunities and forecasts based on customer evidence
- Coordinate Solutions Engineering, BDR, Marketing, Channel, Legal, Professional Services, Customer Success, and executive resources
- Leverage strategic partners and channel relationships to source and accelerate opportunities
- Participate in forecast calls, deal reviews, 1:1s, and QBRs
- Maintain strong knowledge of Everbridge solutions, competitive alternatives, and market trends
Requirements:
- 8+ years of B2B sales experience, including significant experience selling SaaS, hosted software, or complex technology solutions
- 5+ years of experience selling into mid-market or enterprise accounts with multi-stakeholder buying groups and complex procurement processes
- Demonstrated history of achieving or exceeding quota in a new-logo/hunter role
- Proven ability to independently generate pipeline through outbound prospecting, executive outreach, account planning, referrals, and partner engagement
- Strong command of MEDDICC/MEDDPICC, Blueprinting, Solution Selling, or a comparable enterprise qualification methodology
- Experience building executive business cases and communicating value beyond product features and functionality
- Experience competing against established incumbents and creating urgency around a change initiative
- Strong forecasting discipline and ability to objectively assess deal risk, customer intent, and execution timing
- Executive presence with strong written, verbal, presentation, and negotiation skills
- High degree of ownership, accountability, preparation, coachability, and business judgment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience
- Comfort using Salesforce or a comparable CRM as the system of record for pipeline, opportunity management, and forecasting
- Ability to travel approximately 30% or more based on customer and territory needs
- Nice to have: Experience selling into Security, Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Risk, IT, or Critical Event Management buyers
- Nice to have: Experience with $100K+ annual contract value transactions and multi-year agreements
- Nice to have: Experience with channel partners, resellers, or strategic alliances
- Nice to have: Experience selling into competitive displacement or consolidation initiatives
Benefits:
- healthcare benefits
- dental benefits
- parental planning benefits
- mental health benefits
- disability income benefits
- life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) plan and match
- paid time off
- fitness reimbursements















