Account Executive, Hootsuite
Mid-Market Sales
Social media management tool
Job no longer available
Social media management tool
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower organizations to build trust and deepen relationships through the power of social.
Role
Who you are
- 2-5 years of B2B sales experience OR 3+ years of lead generation/business development representative experience (experience in software considered an asset); proven ability to achieve or exceed assigned quotas
- Ability to focus on client business value, return on investment, and customer solutions (not features-focused selling)
- Experience crafting sales plans for your vertical/territory and building/executing on your account/territory plans
- Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
- Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance and challenging self and others to deliver results
- Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
- Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
- Solution seeker. You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked
- Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t
- Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity
- Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information
- Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result
- Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively
- Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals
- Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes
- Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Account Executive, Mid-Market to help us develop and close new business with mid-market Hootsuite customers within our landmark industries
- You will work in a fast paced sales environment selling Hootsuite solutions to prospective customers
- You will work with our inbound lead generation teams, helping our prospective customers choose Hootsuite as their Social Media Management partner
- This is a hybrid position open to candidates based near Hootsuite's Paris offices. You will report to the Mid-Market Sales Manager
- Successfully acquire new mid-market customers within our landmark industries by responding and actioning internal leads in order to achieve individual quota targets
- Navigate sales cycles from value creation to negotiation and closing, and present the value of our solutions to prospective customers. Forecast and close new business revenue every month
- Proactively seek out insightful market and industry information in order to effectively develop rapport with mid-market customers
- Recommend relevant solutions by offering a unique product mix from the range of Hootsuite products to solve clients business challenges
- Recommend appropriate third party partner solutions to meet customer needs and build a differentiated pitch for our customers
- Deliver product presentations and demos to potential customers, showcasing a range of solutions that provide maximum benefit to the customer
- Complete RFI/ RFP and other supplier technical requirement documents
- Partner with our pre & post sales teams to navigate roadblocks and objections, ensuring customer success and long term value for the customer
- Manage, track and report sales activities and results through Salesforce, Sales Navigator and 6Sense
- Facilitate a warm handoff to the implementation and customer teams following the close of the initial customer sale to ensure a smooth customer transition and onboarding
- Engage and educate existing commercial customers on Hootsuite's value proposition; maximize the value of each account by aligning customer's unique needs and overall goals on social media
- Provide day to day peer support with training new team members as they onboard and develop their sales skills
- Perform other related duties as required
Our take
Hootsuite is a leading social media management platform that’s been around since the early days of this now-ballooning online sector. With over 18 million customers, and used by over four fifths of the Fortune 1000, this giant is hugely competitive in the space.
Thought Hootsuite's plans for an IPO didn't survive the tough economic conditions of 2022 (like many of its peers, the company engaged in several rounds of layoffs), it has since reworked its leadership team to get back on course as the economy recovers.
Just like its acquisition of Sparkcentral saw the company expand into customer service, its more recent purchase of Talkwalker sees it integrate AI into its platform. The combined offering will supply businesses with a social media performance engine to turn insights into action, all fuelled by artificial intelligence.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2014
$60m
SERIES D
Aug 2013
$165m
SERIES B
Total funding: $246.9m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage on mental health-related treatments in North America. Culturally appropriate trauma counselling services
- A company-wide Wellness Week between July 5 to 12 where we can all “unplug” together
- Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym / Wellness Reimbursement ($55 per month)
- Gym Discount
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Maternity Leave
- PTO (Vacation / Personal Days) - 20 days. After your two year anniversary, you get an additional two days each year until you reach thirty days (six weeks) at your sixth anniversary
- Paternity Leave
- Sick Time (for individual employee and family members)
- Bereavement Leave
- Business Travel Insurance
- Company Phones
- Fertility Assistance (Coverage for fertility treatments and gender affirmation surgeries)
- Immigration Assistance
- Phone Bill Reimbursement ($50 per month)
- Remote Work
- 401k
- Employee Discount
- Pet Friendly Workplace
- RRSP Matching
- Volunteer Time Off
Company HQ
South Main, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Ryan Holmes
(Founder & Board Member)Previously founded interactive agency Invoke Media, served on the Board of Directors for Ariztia, and founded pre-seed fund LOI Venture.
Irina Novoselsky
(CEO)Previously Board Member at Lemonade and World Business Chicago, CEO at CareerBuilder and President at Novitex Enterprise Solutions.
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