Principal Account Executive- Employee Experience

Poppulo•Denver, CO

13h•$125,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Account Executive, Employee Experience is a senior individual contributor who serves as the opportunity lead and subject-matter expert for Poppulo Experience Platform opportunities. Working in partnership with Poppulo's Employee Communications Account Executives, this role owns the PXP sales motion from qualification through close and handoff, while the Employee Communications Account Executive maintains the broader account relationship. The role brings deep intranet and employee experience expertise to opportunities across a broad portfolio of prospective and/or existing customers. PXP connects Desktop, Branded Mobile App, Digital Signage, Recognition/Rewards/Gamification, Employee Advocacy, and Email newsletter experiences. The Principal Account Executive helps customers determine how those capabilities can address workforce communication and experience priorities. Opportunities will vary in size and complexity and will be focus on specific key verticals, particularly in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and other industries with distributed or frontline workforces. The role carries direct revenue responsibility and operates within a shared-credit model with the paired Employee Communications Account Executive.

Requirements

At least 8 years of enterprise SaaS sales experience, including responsibility for complex, multi-stakeholder opportunities with large organizations.
Deep experience selling intranet, employee experience, digital workplace, employee communications, HR technology, or closely related enterprise platforms.
A consistent record of achieving or exceeding quarterly and annual sales targets.
The judgment to lead the PXP sales motion decisively while respecting the paired account executive's ownership of the broader customer relationship.
Strong consultative discovery, value selling, presentation, negotiation, and closing skills.
Experience engaging executive buyers and building champions across business and technical functions.
Fluency in MEDDPICC or a comparable enterprise sales methodology, with disciplined opportunity qualification and forecasting.
The ability to connect intranet and employee experience priorities to measurable business outcomes for large, distributed workforces.
Excellent written and verbal communication, executive presence, organizational discipline, and attention to detail.
Sound judgment, curiosity, resilience, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience succeeding as a senior individual contributor in a product-specialist, overlay, co-selling, or similarly matrixed sales model is strongly preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Own the specialist PXP sales motion from initial qualification and discovery through solution alignment, business case development, negotiation, close, and transition to the post-sale team.
Partner with Employee Communications Account Executives on account strategy, establish clear roles for each opportunity, and serve as the lead seller and subject-matter expert for PXP while the paired Employee Communications Account Executive maintains the broader customer relationship.
Build pipeline through referrals from aligned sellers, joint account planning, targeted prospecting, partner activity, and conversion of qualified inbound demand.
Identify and prioritize PXP opportunities across prospective and/or existing accounts based on customer need, commercial potential, and the value specialist involvement can add to the sales process.
Lead consultative discovery with senior stakeholders across Internal Communications, Employee Experience, HR, IT, Digital Workplace, Operations, Security, Procurement, and executive leadership.
Use deep knowledge of intranet, digital workplace, and employee experience practices to advise customers and translate their workforce challenges into a clear PXP solution strategy.
Orchestrate demonstrations, workshops, proposals, security reviews, and business cases with Solutions Consulting, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Professional Services, and other internal experts.
Develop champions and executive sponsors, map the buying group, and align stakeholders around Mutual Action Plans and a defensible path to value.
Apply MEDDPICC discipline to qualification, deal strategy, risk management, forecasting, and close planning.
Maintain accurate opportunity data and forecasts, communicate deal strategy clearly, and deliver against quarterly and annual PXP revenue goals.
Work within a shared-credit model that recognizes both the PXP specialist and the paired Account Executive for successful PXP sales.
Act as a trusted advisor to paired sellers and sales leaders, guiding PXP opportunity strategy and strengthening field capability through coaching, practical enablement, and customer feedback.