Account Executive, LogicMonitor
Strategic Enterprise
Hybrid observability powered by AI
Open for applications
Hybrid observability powered by AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To expand what’s possible for businesses by advancing their technology.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of B2B sales experience
- 2+ years of SaaS sales experience
- Ability to simply articulate complex technologies
- Proven track record of exceeding sales quotas
- Success closing net new accounts while working existing accounts
- Experience in prospecting and outbound outreach to book first contact meetings
- Experience of managing a complex sales cycle and documenting activity in a CRM
- Experience using AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, or problem-solving
- Motivated self-starter, able to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills with a solid grasp of the English language both written and verbal with competent presentation skills
- Proven experience of negotiating new business opportunities
- Proof of meeting or exceeding sales targets in a software sales role
- Manage and fill a pipeline with limited help from an inside Market Development Team
- On a weekly basis provide LM managers a monthly & quarterly forecast
- Travel required
What the job involves
- The Account Executive (AE) at LogicMonitor is responsible for business development and the full sales cycle from initial outbound prospecting, securing first meeting, demo, POV and through to contract sign off
- For the business development component of the role you will be expected to map out strategic accounts for your assigned territory and/or verticals using a combination of outbound calls, LinkedIn messaging and creative ideas to help you build organic pipeline
- In addition to your own prospecting activities you will also work closely with business development representatives and channel reps to prospect and manage inbound leads
- As the Account Executive on your sales opportunities you will take responsibility for the initial contact discovering business needs and challenges, demo our platform to a technical audience and manage with a proof of concept to get technical sign off and navigate contract negotiations whilst maintaining high value for our solution
- You will engage key our presales, tech support and product management, occasionally our executive team to help win new business opportunities
- The AE will coordinate professional service scoping calls and customer success hand-over calls with new customers
- The AE will also work closely with our Marketing team to staff events and ensure follow up on leads
- Finally, the AE must accurately forecast their sales opportunities back to the LM Management Team
- You will have experience in managing complex sales cycles, navigating enterprise organisations to build solid engagements with multiple stakeholders
- You will be an extremely positive individual who sees challenges as opportunities and has the ability to motivate and lead by example
- The role will involve travel and you should expect varied working hours
- We are looking for goal oriented candidates who understand how to build a plan for business development across a territory
- The AE acts as the primary contact for prospects managing the relationship from the LogicMonitor side
- Identify and prospect into target accounts
- Meet activity targets for calls/emails/meetings
- Book 2 new logo meetings per week
- Attend 2 self sourced new logo meetings per week
- Understand the LogicMonitor technology platform and be able to present unique business value to prospects
- Implement Vista Value Selling methodology / sales process to move prospects through the sales cycle
- Assist prospects progress through sales cycle by engaging our presales, product and management teams
- Trial optimisation (proactively adding dashboards, creating sample reports, etc. for all trial prospects)
- Learn how LogicMonitor solves customer problems and be able to tailor the solution to different types of customers and use cases
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As businesses shift from reactive to proactive monitoring, there is a need for tools which empower them to make predictions and solve problems before they start. This is what LogicMonitor supplies, through an observability platform for hybrid environments.
The company's extensive product suite encompasses monitoring of all sorts, including but not limited to network, virtual machine, database, container and SaaS. Each service supplies real-time insights and automated monitoring, with agentless architecture.
LogicMonitor is held in high regard by the industry, evidenced by its being named in the Visionary quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2024. It has also seen significant funding which will support further development and growth for the business.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2024
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jun 2016
$130m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $543m
Company HQ
Santa Barbara Downtown, Santa Barbara, CA
Leadership
Board Member at Rapid7 and Founding LP at Operator Collective. Was also a Board Member at Poema Global, and CCO, VP and Global Head of Customer Success at Slack.
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