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Canonical Group - Cincinnati, OH
posted about 2 months ago
About the position
The Enterprise Account Executive - Americas at Canonical is responsible for driving sales of open source software solutions, particularly Ubuntu, to enterprise customers across the Americas. This role involves building and executing territory plans, developing new business pipelines, managing customer relationships, and achieving sales targets. The position requires a deep understanding of customer needs and the ability to communicate complex technical solutions effectively. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with various teams to ensure customer satisfaction and drive growth in their assigned territory.
Responsibilities
- Represent the company, its solutions and software, in your territory
- Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
- Develop new pipeline through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
- Close contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
- Manage customer relationships and interactions through all stages of the sales cycle
- Work with field engineers to propose solutions that solve our customers' business problems
- Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
- Maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
- Establish productive professional relationships with key influencers and decision makers
Requirements
- Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science
- Experience of open source technology and solutions
- Detail oriented with effective follow-up
- Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
- Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
- Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
- Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
- Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events
Nice-to-haves
- Specific vertical experience, in particular finance, telco, health, energy, public sector, tech
- Experience speaking at conferences or industry events
Benefits
- Performance-driven commission structure
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
