Commercial Account Executive, US & Canada (North America Sales Team)
SemrushAbout the role
Semrush is a brand visibility platform, empowering marketers to command their online presence and create measurable impact. We unify SEO authority and AI visibility, so brands are found, cited, and chosen everywhere search happens. That’s how Semrush gained the trust of over 28 million users—from scaling startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Some highlights of our success:
$470M+ Annual Recurring Revenue with AI products surpassing $38M+
Dollar-based net revenue retention of 104%, as of December 31, 2025
Large deals growing 74% YoY
Semrush named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Search Engine Optimization Solutions, Q3 2025
Exceptional demand for the Enterprise platform, with deals with global giants like JP Morgan, LG, Samsung, TikTok, and others
Shared ambition makes a bigger impact. That’s why at Semrush, progress is a partnership: You push us forward, we push you further—and we all move as one.
Are you ready to be part of this journey?
About the opportunity
The Sales team is at the forefront of empowering businesses to achieve online visibility and digital marketing success. Through our selling approach and world-class enablement programs, we equip our team with the tools, resources, and training. This is how we keep delivering meaningful results for our customers.
Joining the Sales team also means:
Fast forward and continuous career growth: the highest rate of promotions within the organization
A team spread across 40+ locations around the globe
Offline and online bootcamps as part of our onboarding process
President’s club—an opportunity to celebrate exceptional results and reward top performers in high-class vacation destination
Quota attainment has been recognized as higher than market average, according to RepVue
Uncapped commissions
About your future tasks
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Drive revenue growth by generating new business, upselling and cross-selling, and renewals
- Manage the sales cycle from prospecting to close. Comfortable with longer and more complex selling cycles with multiple stakeholders
- Dealing with Legal/Finance/IT requirements
- Manage and maintain a healthy pipeline of key customers and continuously find new opportunities for our customers and qualified prospects and opportunities
- Collaborate with Sales Development, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to develop and execute account plans
- Maintain strong relationships with existing customers, understanding their business needs and providing additional Solutions of the Company to optimize growth
- KPIs of high-volume calls, minutes, demos, and strategic focus on outreach and follow-up personalized cadences to strengthen customer relationships
- Identify and close cross-sell/up-sell opportunities using the Company suite of products
- Deliver a value-based selling experience to our customers based on automation and customer behavior
- Accurately forecast monthly/quarterly sales and retention achievement to management
- Contribute feedback to the larger Company organization by utilizing strong analytical thinking, presentation, and problem-solving skills
- Identify best practices to refine the company’s lead generation playbook
- Travel is recommended but not necessary or required.
About you
- Proven 3+ years of experience in Commercial sales, SaaS sales, or a similar customer-facing role
A results-driven approach with a history of consistently exceeding targets
Strong communication and relationship-building skills
A deep understanding of digital marketing trends and SEO concepts (preferred but not required)
A self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and as part of a team coming from outbound based organizations
Familiarity with CRM tools and data-driven selling strategies
Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced, constantly evolving environment
Alignment with our core values:
Trust, because we prefer to speak up and be our true selves;
Sense of Ownership, because it’s not worth wasting time on som
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