Senior Strategic Account Executive

Who we are 

At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.

Our dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands.

See yourself at Twilio

Join the team as Twilio’s next Senior Strategic Account Executive.

Who we are & why we're hiring

Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.

Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a global company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business.

About the job

This position is needed to lead relationships with our enterprise Communications platform customers who consume our messaging, voice and email services. You will be directly responsible for protecting and growing Twilio’s communications business across your assigned customers. As a Senior Strategic Account Executive, you will drive highly analytical and consultative sales cycles with customers that are running large scale, global, competitively sourced, compliance-heavy, use case-specific businesses. This role is highly cross functional, and your success will depend on building deep partnerships across product management, finance, support, and operations.  

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Manage and expand some of our most important High Tech customer accounts.
• Develop, drive, and execute account strategy to consistently deliver strong revenue, gross margin, and gross profit results.
• Partner closely with other Twilio teams to identify new revenue opportunities within your High Tech account portfolio.
• Serve on a cross-functional account team with representatives from product, finance, support, and services teams. 
• Run a disciplined forecast, consistently achieve goals, and present guidance to executive management.
• Run highly consultative sales cycles with our largest customers with a focus on deep discovery, listening to customer needs and being an effective champion for their point of view in the organization.
• Generate and maintain an accurate sales pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce.
• Establish yourself as a trusted subject matter expert and share industry updates and changes with the GTM sales organization.

Qualifications:

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Required:

• Possess a total of 12 years of sales experience, with a minimum of 5 years dedicated to major account or strategic sales.
• Demonstrate expertise in managing or leading quantitative, highly analytical products and solutions for customers.
• Accountable for relationship management, cross sells, upsells and solutions consulting.
• Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships.
• Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value.
• Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models. 
• Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define processes and build programs.
• Record of delivering revenue and gross profit results, especially for large-scale and enterprise customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.