Account Executive

Job Title: Enterprise Account Executive
Reporting To : Chief Revenue Officer
Member of : Sales Group
About Us:

Platform9 delivers simplified cloud operations and cost optimization solutions.

We work with DevOps and FinOps teams to streamline cloud operations and reduce cloud spend using a SaaS management plane, software automation, and a proactive-ops approach with certified experts.

The future for Platform9, for our customers, and for our team is about as bright and exciting as it gets. It’s the best time to join our highly collaborative, friendly, and rich learning environment. We have a high energy start-up culture. We value customer obsession, innovation, openness, bias towards action, and speed and we are looking to add a seasoned enterprise account executive to our tight-knit and energetic sales team

Position Summary:

The primary responsibility is to create new opportunities, and to drive and capture opportunities to generate net new revenue in his/her defined territory. To achieve that, the AE must ensure appropriate levels of activity in each stage of the sales process and appropriate levels of effectiveness in each activity of the sales process. Working closely with PreSales Engineers and other team, the AE will fully embrace a consultative selling approach, delivering value and insights to prospects. Taking ownership from lead to close, the AE will drive the sales strategy and all activities associated with each phase.

The AE will be business minded and develop a sales/business plan outlining how to meet or exceed revenue target in given territory, for each fiscal year and quarter. The AE will take pride in timely and accurate reporting of the state of their business.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Create and capture opportunities:

• Create new opportunities to increase the size of the opportunity pipeline, through prospecting and lead follow through.
• Qualify leads and prospects to ensure the opportunity pipeline is of high quality,
• Engage with C-level, VP-level and Director-level
• Differentiate by engaging in high value conversations, providing insights on why prospects are not achieving the results they desire, evidence-based proof points for available remedies, risks to be mitigated, approaches for achieving desired results
• Qualify and report the reasons that the prospect should change, wants to change and their commitment to change
• Drive opportunities through the sales pipeline to successful closure
• Develop sales strategies, account plans, and win plans for opportunities in the pipeline
• Understand and execute each phase of the sales process with excellence
• Identify and qualify the prospect’s consensus team and their influencers
• Understand the ‘food chain’ of the prospect’s consensus team members
• Map our executives to the appropriate consensus team and/or influencers
• Exhibit high quality negotiation skills, ensuring business fundamentals are achieved for price and T&Cs
• Exceed monthly, quarterly and annual quotas and KPIs

Product Knowledge/Industry Expertise:

• Obtain and maintain a complete knowledge of our narrative, target market, problems we solve, results we deliver, product and service we offer
• Obtain a good understanding of prospect’s business, products and services.
• Keep current with the latest industry trends and news.

Discipline/Admin/Pipeline Hygiene:

• Maintain and track all details of leads and opportunities in Hubspot and appropriate tools
• Utilize Hubspot and appropriate tools to properly track and report sales progress
• Forecast accurately
• Attend sales meetings and training programs.
• Prepare appropriately to achieve excellence in meetings and deliverables
• Consistently punctual and professionally groomed

Resourceful/Team Player:

• Effectively leverage internal resources such as Sales Engineers, Inside Sales, Consultants, selected partners and Executives to successfully generate leads, create opportunities and capture new revenue

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong presentation skills
• Network on C-Level and VP-level
• Ten years B2B enterprise sales experience, demonstrating success in net new software sales
• Demonstrable track record of success with $2M + quota and $250K+ deal size;
• Exceptional prospecting skills
• Industry experience selling virtualization and containerization platforms and/or cloud native modernization solutions and/or container management and orchestration solutions.
• Background selling VMWare virtualization solutions preferred
• Start-up sales experience or Start-Up attitude preferred
• Sales 2.0 skill-set: use of Hubspot, LinkedIn SalesNavigator and similar tools;
• Must be prepared to travel
• Must be self-motivated, able to handle high-pressure situations and able to work in a target-oriented environment
• Experience with Elite Sales Strategies (see books authored by Anthony Iannarino) is preferred
• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar is preferred.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. Platform9’s benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our well-being at work

Please note, benefits change by country.

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Generous Time Off Programs & Annual year end Shutdown
• Hybrid Work Model
• Professional Development/ Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities
• Hackathon
• Company Wide Programs.

Our benefits have been carefully selected keeping in mind employees requirements and personal situations now and for the future.
(Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000 base + variable + equity)