
Commercial Account Executive
Illumination Systems Arizona
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇫🇷 France
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Prospect, qualify, and close new business across commercial and mid-market accounts. Drive opportunities from first meeting through technical validation, pricing, and close
- Manage relationships with strategic customers, identifying opportunities to cross-sell, upsell, and deliver measurable value.
- Become an expert in communicating MinIO’s benefits to technical and business stakeholders, focusing on business impact and customer success.
- Partner with internal teams, including product, marketing, and customer success, to deliver seamless customer experiences.
- Build and manage a healthy pipeline with disciplined forecasting and deal hygiene
- Use MEDDPICC (or similar) to qualify deals and drive predictable outcomes
- Maintain accurate pipeline, forecasting, and activity tracking in Salesforce
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Field Architects, Marketing, Customer Success, and Product
- Consistent quota attainment with strong pipeline coverage
- Ability to move complex, technical deals forward with urgency and clarity
- High-quality discovery that uncovers real customer pain and expansion potential
- Trusted advisor status with customers building modern, scalable data platforms
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or infrastructure sales experience sales with consistent quota achievement and expertise in managing complex, high-value sales cycles.
- Strong background in sourcing and closing new customers, particularly in enterprise or mid-market segments.
- Demonstrated ability to expand and retain accounts through cross-sell, upsell, and delivering measurable customer value.
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, data infrastructure, or B2B SaaS. Experience engaging with technical buyers, including VPs of Infrastructure, Engineering, and Enterprise Architects.
- Thrives in fast-paced environments, with experience at early or growth-stage companies.
- Skilled at challenging the status quo, demonstrating clear business value, and driving competitive wins.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence decision-makers and navigate complex negotiations.
- Proven ability to work across functions, leveraging internal resources to achieve customer success.
- Experience managing deal sizes ranging from $50k to $300k+.
- Expertise in pipeline generation tools (e.g., SalesLoft, Outreach) and social selling (e.g.,LinkedIn Navigator).
- Familiarity with Force Management, MEDDPIC or other sales methodologies.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
B2B SaaS salesinfrastructure salespipeline generationsales forecastingdeal managementcross-sellingupsellingcustomer value deliverytechnical validationsales methodologies
Soft skills
communication skillsnegotiation skillsrelationship managementcustomer successinfluencing decision-makersproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationstrategic thinkingquota attainment