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About the job

As a New Business Senior Account Executive, you will be responsible for prospecting, solution selling and closing new business opportunities across our Messaging, Voice and Email products. In this role, you will be directly responsible for expanding our messaging business with some of the largest and fastest growing enterprise companies, spanning industries such as DevOps, FinTech, MarTech and HealthTech. New Business Account Executives are experts in the CPaaS ecosystem and Twilio’s product offerings. This role is highly cross functional, with deep integration with product management, carrier relations, finance, and solutions engineering teams.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will :

• Be responsible for new customer acquisition, while being assigned a quota for net new bookings.
• Own highly analytical and consultative sales cycles to win business in competitive vendor sourcing cycles with Twilio’s messaging (e.g. SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Business Messages, Account Security, etc.), voice and email solutions.
• Work with customers across assigned verticals to understand their business and technical requirements, and match them to the capabilities of Twilio’s communications API platform, designing a solution for their specific use cases.
• Work with teams in Finance, Legal, Pricing, and Operations to design mutually beneficial contracts to address customer requirements, while balancing the needs of our business.
• Be passionate about what you do, think outside the box, and use world-class interpersonal and communication skills to present complex contractual, technical, and financial details to prospects in a way that builds confidence and comfort in the proposed solution.
• Balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects and deals at the same time. 
• Partner cross functionally with sales, services, product, and finance to develop long range territory strategies and sales plans. 
• Act as the voice of the customer to Twilio’s product and carrier relations teams.  
• Establish yourself as a subject matter expert in the CPaaS industry - staying up to date on key industry initiatives and new capabilities - sharing your knowledge with your customers and the wider Twilio go-to-market organization. 
• Generate and maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce 

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:

Demonstrated track record of selling and closing in the cloud communications platform market.  Specific requirements:

• 12 years of combined experience in major account or strategic sales, managing or leading quantitative, highly analytical products or solutions for their customers. 
• 12 years of experience in full cycle sales directly selling technical SaaS or CPaaS
• Experience outbound prospecting into install base, greenfield prospecting into new accounts, and executing strong QBR strategy for territory penetration
• Technical solutions selling experience working with real customers, listening to them, and solving problems
• 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 
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