Enterprise Expansion Account Executive, Sumo Logic
$120-143k
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Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
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Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-143k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 7+ years of total IT sales experience and 5+ years consistent quota over achievement selling software to enterprise-level customers
- Ideally, you will have sold an on-demand/SaaS Security or IT Infrastructure Management solution to a technical and business audience (IT Heads / DevOps / Security Operations, etc)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. We need storytellers and those that can simplify the complex for economic buyers and executives
- Good Sales DNA and methodology such as MEDDPICC is highly desired
- High activity with a fast motor to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly evolving technical environment
- Must be a team player and a life-long learner. You must be curious to know the ‘why’
What the job involves
- Sumo Logic addresses both security and observability use cases all while riding on a world class logging, SIEM, and security analytics cloud native platform
- Combined with a newly installed executive sales and operations team, the time is now for overachievement and we’re looking for the next thinkers, doers and challengers to join us
- This position calls for a seasoned, strategic Account Executive in our enterprise sales segment which is responsible for driving growth within a subset of some existing accounts and hunting for net new logo accounts
- Once you land accounts you will focus on expansion. You are the tip of the spear, face of the company, owning the relationship and responsibility of our customers’ success
- Land and expand new logo accounts. Treat existing customer base like new logos to
- Drive incremental ARR growth within the account. Expand existing use cases and introduce new use cases to current buying centers
- Measure and quantify the business value of our existing use cases and evangelize aggressively to new buying centers within each customer
- Responsible for the full sales cycle of new, incremental and renewal business within the territory
- Exude operational efficiency and forecast accuracy to run a best-in-class business
- Up to 50% in-market travel to establish relationships. Be able to cultivate and grow relationships into referenceable champions
- Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions, particularly engineering, product management and marketing
Our take
Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic, including Pokemon, Canary, and Greenhouse.
Customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.
After its IPO in 2020, February 2023 saw Sumo Logic agree to a $1.7 billion valued acquisition deal from Francisco Partners. This comes after a year that saw its stock drop by 40%. This marks an exciting new chapter for Sumo Logic, its parent company has a track record for acquiring successful tech and software businesses such as MyHeritage and Renaissance Learning. Exemplifying its potential in its new Francisco Partners era, Sumo Logic was named a "Challenger" company in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2019
$110m
SERIES G
Jun 2017
$79.4m
SERIES F
Total funding: $344.4m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Christian Beedgen
(CTO)Previously worked for 9 years at ArcSight, holding various positions such as Lead Software Engineer, Software Development Manager and Chief Architect, Director of Engineering
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