
Senior Account Executive – Strategic FSI Accounts
Pure Storage
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $152,500 - $244,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making, doing major account planning/selling.
- Work through partners in order to drive new business opportunities through them.
- Understand prospect and customer use-cases in order to drive new business.
- Plan and manage the relationships at both the strategic and operational level.
- Evaluate new opportunities and present recommendations to the account teams you are teamed with and the management team.
- Conduct competitive and market intelligence sessions for customers.
- Drive customer networking and thought leadership.
- Work closely with the rest of Portworx sales/pre-sales/SDR and engineering teams.
- Give enablement sessions both 1:1 and 1:many in order to spread the word on Portworx.
- Leverage all available documentation, best practices, knowledge-base articles and other vehicles to assist customers.
- Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first.
Requirements
- 8+ year’s experience in selling Enterprise software and subscription software into the top F50 accounts, focused on Financial Services companies.
- A strong technical understanding of the Enterprise software, Container, cloud native, and storage domains.
- Ability to present Portworx’s UVP, product, vision, strategy, and road map.
- Expertise leading a complex sales process with multiple stakeholders, while fostering teamwork and shared ownership internally and with Partners.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including written and oral communication, able to build relationships easily and deepen them over time.
- Avid hunter with proven prospecting skills, consistently opening doors to new customers and navigating seamlessly between the boardroom and the data center while passionately positioning the advantages of a Portworx solution.
- Authenticity and a genuine desire to engage customers and understand their business challenges.
- Thought leadership, creativity and a Challenger Mindset; the ability to apply your customer insights and expertise in technology solutions to position Pure’s portfolio to solve persistent problems.
- Ability to assess, plan, and actively manage a territory to achieve maximum revenue and efficiency.
- Consistent track record of exceeding quota and driving referenceable business.
- Passionate about post-sales customer success.
Benefits
- Pure Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge and aspire to be trailblazers.
- Pure Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been Named Fortune's Best Large Workplaces in the Bay Area™, Fortune's Best Workplaces for Millennials™ and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
- Pure Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.
- flexible time off
- wellness resources
- company-sponsored team events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Enterprise software salesSubscription software salesTechnical understanding of cloud nativeTechnical understanding of storage domainsSales process managementProspecting skillsAccount planningMarket intelligenceCustomer relationship managementThought leadership
Soft Skills
Interpersonal skillsWritten communicationOral communicationTeamworkOwnershipCreativityAuthenticityCustomer engagementProblem-solvingChallenger mindset