Strategic Account Executive, Glean
$300-360k
Enterprise search and knowledge management
Open for applications
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$300-360k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of closing experience in Sales with a track record of being a top performer
- Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product and have the ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
- Have clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizations
- Effectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities and building out a new territory
- Previous experience building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
- Knowledge of best of breed softwares and a technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
- Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions
- Basic understanding of search infrastructure is a plus
- You have previous experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & Engineers
- Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Strategic Account Executive at Glean, you will drive new business and growth within our largest enterprise prospects by developing tailored strategies to break into and expand major accounts
- This role demands sophisticated account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building to deliver on customer pain points and priority business outcomes
- You will have the opportunity to build a territory in the SoCal region and play a key role in shaping Glean’s presence among industry-leading organizations and advancing our mission to transform work with AI
- Source and close net new logos within a given territory
- Have the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and identify executive sponsors and champions
- Research and understand the business objectives of your customers and have the ability to perform a value drive sales cycle
- Collaborate with internal partners to move deals forward and ensure customer success
- You will consistently deliver ARR revenue targets and drive success through a metric based approach
- Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings
- Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions
- Create ROI and business justification reports based off of a data driven approach
- Run tight POCs based off of business success criteria
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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