Account Executive
About the role
About Us
Orkes is a platform for developers to build durable, distributed event driven applications. Based on the popular open source orchestration engine, Orkes lets developers focus on faster go to market with applications, scaling them to handle millions of workflows without having to worry about failures, scalability or visibility into the executions.
We are seeking an accomplished and highly driven Mid-Market Account Executive to join Orkes. Working with a talented and agile core team, you will have the opportunity to grow with us and make an impact. In this role you will be responsible for creating the strategy for and a pipeline of qualified leads for Orkes Cloud, with an emphasis on working with existing Conductor open source customers, and close business to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly and yearly sales goals. You will do this by building strong and effective relationships with customers and will be guided by the long term growth of your portfolio. Your foundation for success will be learning deeply about customer needs, Orkes products and connecting the dots.
Your day-to-day at Orkes:
- Identify and qualify new business opportunities through prospecting, networking, and cold outreach
- Obsess on achieving daily & weekly against prospecting targets, across your assigned territory accounts, to build a favorable pipeline gap of 3:2:2
- Develop and execute strategic sales plans to target mid-market accounts Build and maintain strong relationships with developers, key decision-makers, and stakeholders
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including marketing, product, and customer success to drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction
- Focus on forecasting accurately and maintaining favorable coverage across commit, best-case and most-likely for the current quarter
- Obsess over compressing sales cycles and obtaining early verbal commitments from customer
- Work with Orkes revenue leadership to move the deal from verbal to close within the forecast Track daily sales activities and maintain CRM hygiene by accurately capturing the details that are required by Orkes leadership in our CRM system
- Consistently follow MEDDPICC across your opportunities and develop close plans for the opportunities within the current quarter forecast
- Execute sales-plays defined by Orkes leadership team to develop the right customer opportunities
- Stay informed about market trends, competitor activities, and industry developments to inform sales strategies and tactics
- Achieve and exceed monthly and quarterly sales targets and KPIs to drive company growth and revenue
- Collaborate with Customer Success team for identifying value opportunities for account expansion
- Provide exceptional customer service and support throughout the sales cycle to build long-term partnerships and maximize customer lifetime value.
Qualities that will help you succeed:
- You are fanatical prospector who obsess over building your pipeline
- Experience in a Sales and/or Business Development role within a high growth organization, preferably with startups that achieved growth across its open source install base.
- Experience working successfully across the spectrum of sales (strategy, lead generation, business closing, relationship nurturing)
- Outstanding communication skills including both phone and written communication as well as active listening
- Self-starter with a record of overachieving against your quota along with an incredibly high activity rate and constant obsession with attaining your monthly and quarterly budget
- Rigorous Sales Methodology