Strategic Account Executive
TwilioAbout the role
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Join the team as Twilio’s next 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 Hightech 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 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 Hightech 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 Hightech 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, SalesforceStay current with industry changes and collaborate with your team and peers to learn and share best practices.
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 8 years of sales experience, with a minimum of 3 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 process and build programs.
- Record of delivering revenue and gross profit results, especially for large-scale and enterprise customers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience.
Desired:
- Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms.
- Domain expertise from a highly quantitative industry such as DevOps, Fintech, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments.
- Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experience.
- B2B hightech companies
Location
This role will be remote and based in the U.S.
What We Offer
There are many benefits to working at Twilio, including, in addition to competitive pay, things like generous time-off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirem
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