Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco, through its Splunk business, provides security and observability solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The Account Executive will drive revenue growth across large enterprise accounts by generating pipeline, developing customer relationships, managing complex sales opportunities, and achieving license, support, and service revenue targets.
Responsibilities
- Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities
- Explore the full spectrum of relationships and business possibilities across the client’s entire org chart
- Become known as a thought-leader in machine learning and predictive analytics
- Expand relationships and orchestrate complex deals across more diverse business stake-holders
- Holistically embrace, access, and apply the channel to identify and open new, unchartered opportunities
- Work as a team for the most efficient use and deployment of resources
- Provide timely and informative input back to other corporate functions
Skills
- 5+ years of direct sales experience selling enterprise software to large enterprises (required) in fast-growing, changing, and driven environments
- Excellent leadership and influencing skills; ability to build strong business partnerships both outside, and within the organization
- Skilled at business planning and diligent at measuring and communicating progress towards the plan, identifying roadblocks, and coming up with appropriate solutions
- Success adapting in fast-growing and changing environments
- Relevant software experience in any of the following: IT systems, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, DevOps, security, business applications, and/or analytics. Subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software experience is preferred
- Consistent track record of new business development and overachieving sales targets with prospects and customers in the defined territory
- Strong executive presence and polish, and excellent listening skills
- Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques; knowledge of Force Management, MEDDPICC, and Challenger methodologies is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work within Portland or Seattle.
- U.S. employees are offered medical, dental and vision insurance, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
- A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- 1 paid day off for an employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations.
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on the hire date and each January 1st thereafter, plus up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
- Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.
- For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, incentive compensation has no cap once performance exceeds 100% attainment.
- Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
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