Strategic Account Executive, Pluralsight
Technology workforce development company
Open for applications
Technology workforce development company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire and empower the tech workforce to achieve their goals.
Role
Who you are
- 5-10+ years B2B SaaS experience with strategic enterprise accounts (10.000+ employees), exceed quota and ability to close $1M+ deals
- Has sold into a C-Suite and with customers through all phases of the life cycle
- Understands various stages of typical solution sales cycle
- Proven track record of exceptional sales success and operational excellence through creating successful internal & external partnerships
- Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM tools preferred
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal & written) including outstanding telephone presence, multilingual preference
- Entrepreneurial attitude, self-motivated, accountable approach, combined with strong sense of collaboration
- Ability to follow through and meet deadlines
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Sold enterprise platforms or solutions to IT, Learning, and Engineering, and tech leader decision makers within the Engineering Org
- Sold for products in the growth stage and build proposals with a multi product strategy
- You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things
- You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns
- When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive
- You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link
- You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others
What the job involves
- As a Strategic Account Executive (AE), you are responsible for the renewal and growth of our strategic accounts in the region, ensuring all key metrics are delivered
- With identified accounts, you will ensure revenue growth, customer success and long term partnership with the customers
- Our Strategic AEs will provide direction and recommendations to the extended territory team and leadership to increase efficiencies, structure, and strategy of the region, ensuring individual and team success
- Meet and exceed sales quotas - Close customer contracts with the largest companies in Europe, with a variety of existing revenue, with 12+ mo. average sales cycles, build and grow pipeline, accurately forecast, cold call and prospect account base for new opportunities, identify and win new business accounts
- Own your business: Increase sales, develop leads, and close opportunities
- Develop territory strategy plans and specific account plans, expand installed base and be confident in articulating/deploying a multi product strategy while acquiring net new customers, create and implement demand generation plans within territory, be accountable for all aspects of taking down the number, as if you truly owned Pluralsight
- Establish yourself as a trusted advisor through being assertive, present, and relevant - Build relationships with customers through all phases of the life cycle, identify and care for customer needs, build cases for customers that draw on their technology strategy and tangible business outcomes, build compelling ROI projections, maintain accuracy in Salesforce, develop process to for meaningful customer experience, prospecting, developing, managing, and driving a territory plan to support lead generation, full sales cycle management
- Create strong partnership with Customer Success, Solution Architects, Solution Services, Marketing, Business Development team and our legal team to drive impact for your customers and prospects
- Leverage internal and external tools to improve customer information
- Enhance success with world class SaaS toolkit (access to Salesforce, Outreach and Zoom), provide feedback on pre-sales issues and competitive trends, use sales tools to identify and profile, quote, invoice, and collect revenue from customers, curate customer testimonials
Our take
Pluralsight is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, a mission that has become increasingly urgent as industries worldwide face a growing shortage of IT talent. This high demand for upskilling makes Pluralsight's online training services more relevant than ever.
Founded in 2004, Pluralsight has matured into a prominent player in the online upskilling industry. The company has been significant growth in recent years, capitalizing on the surge in demandf fbefore many competiting startupos emerged. Depsite facing competition from major players like Grow with Google and UDemny, Pluralsight has maintained its strong position.
Though Vista Equity Partners' 2021 acquisition has brought some challenges, Pluralsight, once a unicorn startup now a public company, continues to thrive. With numerous partnerships with NGOs, educational institutions, and corporations, Pluralsight remains a key player in tackling the tech skills shortage.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2016
$30m
SERIES C
Aug 2014
$135m
SERIES B
Total funding: $195m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Summer Fridays
- Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Medical, Dental and Vision
Company HQ
Draper, UT
Leadership
Aaron Skonnard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a DevelopMentor Author, and was President of Skonnard Consulting. In 2004, left a Neumont University Associate Professorship to co-found Pluralsight.
Fritz Onion
(Co-Founder)Started as an Oracle Software Engineer after a degree at Harvard, and then spent 10 years as a DevelopMentor Instructor. Subsequently co-founded Pluralsight in April 2004, serving as Content Advisor.
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