Velocity Account Executive
Zendesk Madison, WI 2019-06-19We’re looking for a motivated self-starter who has a consultative sales approach, provides an excellent customer experience and offers polished presentation skills. You'll be single-handedly running an inbound pipeline of sales opportunities and expansion on existing customer accounts across a very large customer base. You will bring a consistent track record in sales achievement, Software/SaaS a plus.
Responsibilities
- Exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue goals on a monthly basis
- Become a guide on Zendesk’s products and conduct discovery calls, presentations, and demos with prospects and customers
- Respond to a large number of inbound leads and existing customers
- Continue to build pipeline of new business, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities
- Develop and maintain relationships with accounts in your book of business
- Be the voice of the customer; understand their needs and make them champions
- Track all opportunity and customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- 2+ years of full cycle sales experience; software/SaaS experience preferred
- Real passion for technology and quick ability to learn tools and processes
- Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task a high volume of opportunities at all times
- Ability to thrive in a face paced environment; you move quickly, think strategically and are superb at tactical execution
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