Enterprise Account Executive
About the role
About the job
This position is needed to sell into high value Enterprise prospects and existing customers with ARR under $50k. You will play a key role in further growing Twilio’s Communication business across UK/I/Northern Europe. You will be responsible for sourcing new, high value customers as well as driving the sales process from internal leads to qualifying new prospects and handling deals to closure.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll:
- Be responsible for new customer acquisition and driving ACV for a specific set of accounts while maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
- Master creating pricing proposals, negotiating terms and managing the contract process. Ideally, you also have experience selling communications solutions to a technical and business audience, building trust and mutual respect with technical customers and peers.
- Are passionate about what you do and you are able to think outside of the box and have extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills to make complex contractual, technical, and financial details sound simple.
- Able to balance challenging priorities and handle multiple projects/deals at the same time.
Qualifications
Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to 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:
- 8+ years of Enterprise Sales experience and a track record of personally selling and closing complex solutions to enterprise and software companies.
- Strong experience identifying, mapping and prospecting enterprise accounts
- Proven success in selling complex, technical solutions such as cloud communications platforms, APIs, Conversational AI and/or enterprise software
- Experience in account management, developing large enterprise clients, and a history of meeting or exceeding sales targets
- Experience working with Fortune 500 or similarly large enterprises
- Background in working within a quota-driven environment with proven ability to close high-value deals (e.g., six to seven figures)
- Expertise in solution-based selling or consultative selling
- Strong negotiation and contract management skills, including handling complex deals with long sales cycles.
- Prospecting and lead generation skills—ability to develop a pipeline through