SLED Account Executive

Pluralsight

2d•Remote

About The Position

Our public sector team is looking for a SLED Account Executive to join us! In this role, you'll be responsible for the revenue expansion of accounts in your region. With identified accounts, you will ensure revenue growth, customer success, and long term partnership with assigned customers. You will also work closely with and provide direction to the extended account team (solution engineers, business development reps and customer success managers), to identify the best 'plan of attack', increase efficiencies, and develop winning tactics and strategies for your accounts. Who you’re committed to being: You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things. You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns. When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive. You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link. You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others. What you’ll do: Ownership of the full sales cycle from lead to close with State and Local business customers Effectively build trust-based relationships with senior-level sales professionals Identify and understand the customer’s strategy and the related capability and skills requirements Help educate customers on the value of Pluralsight throughout the adoption cycle through jointly developed and agreed success criteria and provide recommendations based on customers’ business needs and usage patterns Develop and set a strategy aligned to the goals set that enables Pluralsight ‘s growth within existing businesses and building new business opportunities

Requirements

Expert on Solution-Selling, Customer-centric Selling, Strategic Selling, the Challenger sale, Business Impact Selling and/or Value Selling.
Experience managing a pipeline and closing SLED contracts, at the state or state agency level
Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills both with customers and within Pluralsight.
Full sales cycle expertise with an emphasis on business development, heavy prospecting, building pipeline, pipeline management, developing mutual buying plans, and forecasting business.
Requires a minimum of 8 years of related or equivalent experience; or 6+ years with an advanced degree.
Based in the East (MO, TN, KY, IN, OH, WV, PA) or willing and able to travel to those states for customer meetings

Nice To Haves

Preferable experience selling in a SaaS organization, ideally with multi-year SaaS contracts into the C-Suite.

Responsibilities

Ownership of the full sales cycle from lead to close with State and Local business customers
Effectively build trust-based relationships with senior-level sales professionals
Identify and understand the customer’s strategy and the related capability and skills requirements
Help educate customers on the value of Pluralsight throughout the adoption cycle through jointly developed and agreed success criteria and provide recommendations based on customers’ business needs and usage patterns
Develop and set a strategy aligned to the goals set that enables Pluralsight ‘s growth within existing businesses and building new business opportunities

Benefits

We’re a blended workplace, where team members work remotely or in a hybrid setup depending on their role and location
We’re mission driven and guided by our culture pillars
We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging
We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration
We’re lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement
We’ve got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.

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