Mid Market Account Executive

Contentful • Chicago, IL

1d • $99,500 - $146,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

Building on the growth our US-based sales team has already achieved, we’re expanding our Account Executive team across North America in the Mid-Market space ($100M-$1B annual revenue).
As a Mid-Market Account Executive in this critical market, you will be the point of contact for both customers and prospects. Your role is to identify and develop new sales opportunities and grow existing accounts while ensuring customers meet their business objectives with Contentful.
As an MM AE, you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by leading the end-to-end sales process from prospecting to close. You’ll drive new revenue opportunities, expansion within your customer base, and a value-based sales process by speaking the language of Professional developers, marketers, and business leaders. Working in partnership with our Customer Success team, you’ll work to nurture and grow a defined customer base within North America.

Requirements

• 4+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience - a minimum of 2 years in a closing role, with individual quota carrying experience and a history of exceeding quota
• 2+ years of experience successfully selling Enterprise level, multi-product, or technical platform solutions
• Working knowledge of selling and positioning a technical SaaS and/or PaaS platform to prospects and customers
• Experience growing and expanding existing customer accounts in a SaaS and/or PaaS environment
• Demonstrated ability to sell transactions of $250k+ to organizations across all Verticals, between $500M and $1B in annual revenue, by engaging VP and C-Level executives
• You embody a true “hunter” mentality - you have experience generating net new pipeline and closing new business
• History of selling complex technical solutions to customers who span distinct divisions (e.g. marketing, IT, sales leadership)
• History of working closely with Partnerships to drive business
• Ability to understand the Contentful API and discuss outcomes with multi-threaded relationships across C-level stakeholders highly technical individuals
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to travel (up to 25%)
• College degree (BA/BS)

Nice To Haves

• MEDDPICC, Value Selling and Sandler Methodologies are a strong Bonus

Responsibilities

• Position, negotiate, and close new logo and expansion business ($50-$500K ACV) in the North American territory
• Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy, and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals
• Prospect and develop new business opportunities with existing customers and prospective customers. As part of our Value-based Sales motion, it is critical for you to be successful conducting deep Account and Industry research, identifying key players, and qualifying net new targets, to drive new business opportunities, while growing value-added relationships with key decision makers by becoming a trusted advisor
• Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful’s internal and customer teams
• Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams
• Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and current customers while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value based selling approach
• Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities, as well as the greater sales ecosystem (including, but not limited to Business Development Representatives, Account Managers, and Customer Success) to drive new business and retain customers
• Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures, and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
• Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
• A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level