Enterprise Account Executive, Tableau (Higher Education)
About The Position
Salesforce is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive for its Tableau division, focusing on the Higher Education market. This role involves engaging with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Analytic platform. The Enterprise Account Executive will build trusted relationships with key team members and c-suite decision-makers, identify use cases, develop opportunities through warm leads and whitespace prospecting, and drive customer satisfaction. The role also requires assisting with account planning, coordinating internal resources, managing complex sales cycles, and defining/completing territory sales plans to meet and exceed sales goals. Salesforce is committed to AI-driven customer success and workforce transformation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of quota carrying software or technology sales and account management experience; ideally focused on large enterprise accounts.
- Work well within a team of various partners within a matrixed environment (Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Sales Leaders, Executives, etc.)
- Highly driven individual with a focus on execution, strong sense of urgency and a belief in our Tableau mission.
- A mix of business curiosity combined with a technical ability to truly address customer data challenges and earn trust
- Solution selling mentality: develop a plan and solution, articulate value, and navigate complexities of our customers to drive revenue
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
Nice To Haves
- Experience selling in the software industry or technical sales experience (ex: Saas)
- Experience with analytics, data, databases, predictive modeling, or business intelligence preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
- Assist with the development and execution of overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives
- Coordinate internal resources including product support, customer success, and sales engineering to meet customer business needs
- Assist with account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with other sales resources (Salesforce Core AE’s, Prime AE’s, Cloud AE’s, etc.) to ensure strategic alignment
- Manage complex sales-cycles and present to C-level executives the value proposition of Tableau platform
- Define and complete territory / account sales plans for assigned territory and then meet and exceed sales goals (quotas) through prospecting, qualifying, managing and closing sales opportunities.
- Develop and manage sales pipeline, prospect and assess sales and move a large number of transactions simultaneously through the sales pipeline.
Benefits
- Month-long onboarding, including a week-long Salesforce cultural immersion program
- Dedicated Tableau product bootcamp
- Mentorship program
- Weekly coaching and development programs
- 7 paid volunteer days off a year
- Donation matching for all approved charitable donations
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement saving plan
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Flexible time off & leave policies
- Parental benefits
- Perks and discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
