Account Executive, Sprout Social
Corporate
$149.6-224.4k
OTE
3-5 days a week in office
All-in-one social media management platform
Be an early applicant
All-in-one social media management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$149.6-224.4k
OTE
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations of all sizes become better marketers and create the world’s most beloved brands.
Role
Who you are
- Sprout Social is looking for a highly driven, collaborative, and tech-savvy Account Executive with strong business acumen to join our Sales team. Ideally, you will be equally driven by a customer-centric mentality as well as a desire to close new business
- 3+ years of closing experience in B2B sales
- Track record of overachieving against defined metrics
- Proven success generating pipeline and partnering with Sales Development counterparts
- Ability to work from Sprout’s Chicago office at least three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) with the possibility of additional in-office days depending on business needs
Desirable
- SaaS experience preferred
- Social media and/or marketing automation experience a plus
- Exceptional organizational, presentation, and communication skills - phone, email and demonstrations/webinars
- Experience working with Salesforce.com or other CRM platform
What the job involves
- Sprout Social is looking to hire an Account Executive, Corporate to join the Sales & Customer Experience team
- At Sprout Social, our Sales and Customer Experience team is the driving force behind how today’s most innovative brands use Sprout to power the future of customer connection. We sell and support the leading social intelligence platform for businesses, helping organizations unlock the full value of social data to drive strategic decisions
- In this role, you will collaborate with the brightest minds in the industry to support global giants like Salesforce, Airbnb, and Equifax. Just as importantly, we believe in the power of our people. You’ll find a culture that honors your ambition, encourages you to explore new horizons, and provides the framework for you to build a career that matters. If you’re ready to champion innovation and accelerate your impact, this is where you can do your best work
- Drive new business in our corporate segment by converting our largest prospective corporate clients into customers
- Collaborate with colleagues across our sales support team, including Business Development Representatives (BDRs), Solution Engineers, and more
- Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization
- Partner with the Manager of Corporate Sales to define key success metrics for your role and how you will be measured against them
- Acclimate yourself with the day to day responsibilities of the Corporate Account Executive team by shadowing team members and listening to recorded customer calls and demos
- Learn Sprout’s go-to-market messaging, key differentiators, develop and personalize segment-specific value propositions
- Learn Sprout’s existing customer sales process by shadowing your peers and working closely with our Sales Enablement Specialists
- Complete a demo and written certification to ensure comprehension
- Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Become fully ramped in your role as a Corporate Executive
- Manage a strong pipeline of qualified leads and begin the process of self generating pipeline with key accounts and strategic stakeholders
- Meet and exceed monthly activity, pipeline and new business metrics
- Conduct active research leveraging all available tools and data sources to understand your customers’ brand, culture, KPIs, partners, and success metrics so you can add value throughout your interactions and become a trusted advisor
- Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
- Own your numbers - consistently meet and exceed your activity goals to build a fruitful pipeline that will provide consistent quota attainment
- Become a Sprout Social and social media expert to confidently speak to ever-changing trends, new product features and platform enhancements to help our customers realize their full potential and accomplish their goals
- Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Consistently meeting and exceeding monthly activity, pipeline and new business metrics
- Stepping up as a leader to share best practices across the organization and help others grow from your experiences
- Obtaining and acting upon (solicited and unsolicited) peer and customer feedback
- Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager
Our take
Engagement tools for social media are proving increasingly vital with the rise of social commerce, and brands need to keep a careful eye on customer satisfaction and interaction if the company is to net a profit from this market. Sprout Social is a social media management platform for brands and agencies of all sizes, allowing users to post, manage engagement, and access analytics on a single hub.
With plenty of big-name customers, including Unicef, Chipotle, and Subaru, Sprout Social has established a trusted and effective brand of its own. It dodged direct competition with social engagement platform Hootsuite by expressly prioritising its customer service tools, where Sprout Social appears to be generally recognised as superior.
To double down on serving the social commerce market and carve out a distinctive niche ahead of this e-commerce trend’s anticipated success, Sprout Social has integrated with platforms such as Shopify, Canva and Facebook Shops. It is also a member of the TikTok marketing partner program and has continued to receive accolades for its software.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2018
$40.5m
SERIES D
Feb 2016
$42m
SERIES C
Total funding: $101.5m
Company benefits
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program, employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentorship programs for aspiring leaders
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Justyn Howard
(Co-Founder & CEO)They were Senior Account Executive at New Horizons, and worked in Learn.com's Executive Account Sales department.
Aaron Rankin
(Co-Founder & Board Member)They have a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon and were an IT Architect at IBM. They were also a Software Engineer at Endeca, and they are currently an investor with Rankin Family Ventures.
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