Named Account Executive, Higher Education

Posted:
10/15/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Virginia, United States ⋅ Chicago, Illinois, United States ⋅ New York, United States ⋅ Florida, United States ⋅ New York, New York, United States ⋅ Massachusetts, United States ⋅ Illinois, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Sales & Account Management

Workplace Type:
Remote

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Job Category

Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

  • About Salesforce
    We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

    Our Enterprise Business team focuses on working with our most strategic customers and organizations of 10,000+ employees. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced team with various customers and receive personalized training and career opportunities.
    Our Enterprise Education (EDU) team, specifically Higher Ed, focuses on working with our most strategic customers and institutions generating over $200m in revenue annually. You will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced team with various customers and receive personalized training and career opportunities.

    You may be aligned to the following verticals and/or clouds:
    • Public Sector- Education-Higher Ed
    • Marketing Cloud
    • Slack
    • Mulesoft
    • Tableau
    • Marketing Cloud
    • Specialization Cloud
    Day to Day
    Our Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become naturals at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments.
    You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.
    • Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
    • Develop and drive the overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives
    • Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs
    • Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment
    • Share Salesforce value proposition for existing and/or new customers
    • Drive growth within an existing assigned account
    Preferred Qualifications
    • 10 years of full cycle sales experience, at least 5 years in Enterprise Sales
    • Preferred Experience working in SLED-specifically Higher Ed
    • Management of multiple large key account
    • Ability to strategize with a large extended team
    • Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
    Working at Salesforce
    Working at Salesforce isn’t all about selling. It’s also about learning, and we heavily invest in you with a month-long immersion and onboarding, including: a week-long product bootcamp, mentorship program, weekly coaching and development programs.
    Benefits
    We are pioneers of the Pledge 1% model, providing product, grants and community service to those in need. We are proud to be#1 in PEOPLE’s Top 50 Companies that Care, and are on Fortune’s Change the World list.
    We provide every employee with 7 paid volunteer days off a year, and donation matching for all approved charitable donations.
    We provide other world-leading benefits to all our employees, including;
    • Health, life insurance, retirement saving plan
    • Monthly wellness allowance
    • Flexible time off & leave policies
    • Parental benefits
    • Perks and discounts
    Accommodations
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Salesforce welcomes all.

For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $105,500 to $141,150.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Salesforce

Website: https://www.salesforce.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1999

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

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