Account Executive, Acquia
Optimize
Cloud-based digital experience management
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based digital experience management
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Acquia's mission is to empower the world’s most ambitious brands to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- In search of a highly-performing, passionate sales pro with a proven track record in sophisticated software sales. Prior web accessibility software sales a bonus!
- Intellectual agility and an entrepreneurial attitude; demonstrates drive, initiative, energy and sense of urgency in acquiring and serving clients
- Ability to learn and absorb new products quickly and rapidly adapt to changing business and customer demands
- Smart, results-oriented, upbeat, and has regularly out-performed his or her peers
- Looking for aggressive career growth
- Passion, drive, and creativity
- Minimum of three years of experience in an Account Executive role at a SaaS company. Candidates with prior experience selling sophisticated Web Development projects and/or Web Content Management software, and/or SaaS are encouraged to apply
- Outstanding passion for success
- MEDDIC experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience negotiating large strategic deals including all phases of client development: prospecting, proposal development, negotiation and ongoing relationship management
- Experience and the know-how to work in a start-up, fast paced technology environment
- Confident presentation skills, and must have 'presence' in front of the C-suite customer with the communications skills to articulate a value proposition to a wide range of organizational and functional levels
What the job involves
- You'll primarily drive Acquia Optimize's market presence, significantly influencing its success trajectory
- As the Account Executive for Acquia Optimize, you will..
- Leverage expertise in Acquia Optimize to showcase its unique capabilities and benefits, tailoring product presentations to meet the specific data-driven optimization needs of prospective clients
- Utilize insights from Acquia Optimize to provide data-driven recommendations for enhancing client website performance, thereby increasing conversion rates and customer satisfaction
- Identify new business opportunities, manage, and close deals in Acquia’s account and prospect base
- Engage with senior level executives within these organizations
- Develop positive relationships and identify prospect needs at all decision-making levels
- Stay current on competitor offerings and be able to identify their strengths and vulnerabilities
- Turn client feedback into meaningful strategies to drive new business and address competitive risks
- Influence client decisions and advocate for client needs to broker win-win solutions
- Work closely with various functional teams including Product Development, Account Management and Project Management teams to ensure seamless implementation and effective ongoing account growth
- Handle full-life cycle sales in an individual contributor environment
- Collaborate efficiently across internal teams and nurture an atmosphere of trust and open communication
- Engage with our channel partners and various subject matter specialists to drive sales opportunities
- Travel to client meetings as needed
- Work cross-functionally with demand generation and marketing teams to cultivate pipeline
Our take
Acquia’s digital experience platform was borne out of the Drupal Project, a popular free and open source software used to develop core content management systems. Drupal creator Dries Buytaert co-founded Acquia in 2007 in a bid to commercialise the software separately.
Considering that Acquia now counts Warner Music Group, NBC Sports, and Johnson & Johnson among its clients, and was acquired by Vista Equity Partner for $1 billion in 2019, it’s fair to say it’s been a success thus far. Indeed, the fact that Vista has a reputation for acquiring what it sees as “undervalued” companies says a lot about Acquia’s true worth.
Since the 2019 acquisition, Acquia has accelerated its growth and international expansion across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. It also acquired digital asset and product information management company Widen in 2021, proving its determination to keep adding to its product offering. It added new AI features to its digital asset management solution in 2024, doubling down in the face of an increasingly competitive market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$55m
SERIES G
May 2014
$50m
SERIES F
Total funding: $173.5m
Company benefits
- Up to 13 weeks of maternity, six weeks of paternity and adoption leave paid at 100 percent
- Returning-parent transition program to allow new parents to ease back into work
- We help offset the cost of legal adoption fees
- Time off when you need it
- Modern office spaces equipped with modern desks, natural light, comfortable chairs, and common areas
- Well-stocked snacks and beverages
- Low employee premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- ESA: Pre-tax health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, Employer Health Savings Account contributions
- Confidential employee assistance program, including five free counseling sessions for you or a family member per year
- Cutting-edge telemedicine visits
- Pre-tax commuter and parking accounts
- Fitness center reimbursement
- Adult and dependent orthodontia benefits
- Identity theft protection, travel assistance, and will preparation
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Dries Buytaert
(Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Board Member & Founder)Founder and Project Lead of Drupal, a powerful open source platform for building websites and digital experiences, where they serve as President of the Board of Directors. Has served as Acquia's CTO since founding the company in 2008.
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