Tableau Account Executive, Federal Civilian

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Job Category

Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Our Enterprise Business team focuses on working with exciting growing organizations of 5000+ employees in the Public Sector vertical.

Tableau
As the market-leading choice for modern business intelligence, our analytics platform makes it easier for people to explore and manage data, and faster to discover and share insights that can change businesses and the world. Everything we do is driven by our mission to help people see and understand data, which is why our products are designed to put the user first—whether they’re an analyst, data scientist, student, teacher, executive, or business user. From connection through collaboration, Tableau is the most powerful, secure, and flexible end-to-end analytics platform.
Day to Day

Our Prime Named Enterprise Account Executives engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Tableau platform. They build positive, trusted relationships with both key team members and c-suite decision makers within their patch, and become naturals at helping customers realize value from their Salesforce investments. You will drive the analytics discussion and identify use cases within your accounts.

• You will use your skills to develop opportunities, through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.

• Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts

• Assist with the development and execution of overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives

• Coordinate internal resources including product support, customer success, and sales engineering to meet customer business needs

• Assist with account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with other sales resources (Salesforce Core AE’s, Prime AE’s, Cloud AE’s, etc.) to ensure strategic alignment

• Manage complex sales-cycles and present to C-level executives the value proposition of Tableau platform

• Define and complete territory / account sales plans for assigned territory and then meet and exceed sales goals (quotas) through prospecting, qualifying, managing and closing sales opportunities.

• Develop and manage sales pipeline, prospect and assess sales and move a large number of transactions simultaneously through the sales pipeline.

Required Experience

• 7-10+ years of quota carrying software or technology sales and account management experience; ideally focused on selling to Federal Civilian agencies

• Work well within a team of various partners within a matrixed environment (client directors, solution engineers, executives, etc.)

• Highly driven individual with a focus on execution, strong sense of urgency and a belief in our Tableau mission.

• A mix of business curiosity combined with a technical ability to truly address customer data challenges and earn trust

• Solution selling mentality: develop a plan and solution, articulate value, and navigate complexities of our customers to drive revenue

• Education: Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Preferred Experience

• Experience selling in the software industry or technical sales experience (ex: Saas)

• Experience with analytics, data, databases, predictive modeling, or business intelligence preferred.

Working at Salesforce
Working at Salesforce isn’t all about selling. It’s also about learning, and we heavily invest in you with a month-long onboarding, including: a week-long Salesforce cultural immersion program, dedicated Tableau product bootcamp, mentorship program, weekly coaching and development programs.
Benefits

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