Account Director Sales, Enterprise (SG)
Coursera
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Posted:
August 29, 2023
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Remote
About the position
As part of Coursera's Enterprise team, the role involves playing a key role in increasing global access to a world-class education. The focus is on building relationships and growing business in a set of named accounts. The responsibilities include meeting and exceeding sales quotas, prospecting and closing upsell and cross-sell opportunities, developing strategic partnerships, and navigating large organizations to identify business and talent challenges. The ideal candidate should have extensive enterprise sales experience, a track record of exceeding quotas, and experience managing large accounts in Asia.
Responsibilities
- Meet and exceed all quarterly and annual sales quotas
- Effectively prospect, qualify, develop, and close upsell & cross-sell opportunities to grow Coursera's share of wallet in a set of strategic enterprise accounts
- Develop shared vision for strategic partnerships with client leadership, and build robust account plans to effectively execute against respective account strategies
- Navigate large organizations to identify/surface critical business and talent challenges/opportunities and demonstrate solution-fit through consultative sales approach
- Work closely with cross-functional teams viz. Customer Success, Implementation & Skills transformation to ensure seamless customer experience
- Be the voice of Coursera's enterprise customers, sharing customer-driven insights across Coursera, including product, engineering, business development, and legal
Requirements
- 11+ years of enterprise sales experience
- Extensive enterprise sales experience at a SaaS company
- Experience of consistently exceeding quota of $1 Million and more, with proven success in accurately forecasting targets, and achieving sales commits
- Experience of managing large accounts in Asia and relationships with C-suite representatives and key decision makers
Benefits
- Extensive enterprise sales experience at a SaaS company
- Experience of consistently exceeding quota of $1 Million and more
- Proven success in accurately forecasting targets and achieving sales commits
- Experience of managing large accounts in Asia and relationships with C-suite representatives and key decision makers
- Proven track record selling enterprise solutions into large/complex accounts and over-achieving quarterly and annual sales targets
- Experience establishing senior level, long term client relationships to generate cross-sell and upsell opportunities with strategic accounts
- Ability to hold your own in meetings with C-suite and representatives from prospective partners and speak as a thought-leader and visionary in the learning space
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and creative-problem solving abilities
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Organizational and operational skills
- Entrepreneurial drive and comfort working autonomously and as part of a team in ambiguous, quickly-changing environments
- Passion for education
- Outstanding ability to collaborate, understand, and empathize with others