Sense

Strategic Account Executive – Utility

Sense

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $165,000 per year

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About the role

  • Build and Expand Pipeline
  • Full-cycle Sales experience from sourcing to nurture to close with proven playbooks to take clients through a sales/bus dev funnel and execute agreements.
  • Organize, prioritize and manage the deal pipeline.
  • Strong consultative/value selling skills and ability to influence innovation and new technology adoption in utility organizations.
  • Lead and manage the RFP process and collaboration with the energy services team to submit competitive proposals for capturing future work.
  • Manage senior-level relationships with prospects and customers - navigating diverse utility business units from engineers up to C-level executives.
  • Proactively monitor and analyze market trends and industry developments with an ability to quickly articulate those trends into value creation opportunities.
  • Adept at creating both client facing and internal presentations that communicate goals, and values proposition.
  • Collaborating with the commercial team, built estimates and competitively priced service offerings to clients.
  • Achieve and Surpass Sales Targets
  • Overall responsibility for the leadership and management for a specific sales target within a defined geography.
  • Consistently meet and exceed quarterly and annual sales targets, demonstrating exceptional drive and determination.
  • Close deals that match or exceed your booking targets, contributing significantly to Senses growth and success.
  • Excellent strategic thinking complemented by an attention to the details required to execute an agreement.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success, Product, and Engineering
  • Demonstrated success translating market trends, customer feedback, regulatory decisions, and competitive landscape to Product and Technical teams to influence product road map.
  • Drive ongoing account management in partnership with Customer Success to ensure customer satisfaction and drive additional expansion opportunities
  • Partner with internal stakeholders in Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations, and Finance.
  • Translate voice of the customer, support the creation and iteration of a comprehensive business development and go-to-market strategy in conjunction with engineering, product, and commercial leadership.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in enterprise software sales role or business development, cloud computing services, or networking & infrastructure in the energy and utility industry.
  • Track record of successfully meeting and exceeding quota.
  • Experience working and thriving in a startup environment.
  • Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, capable of tailoring to varied audiences.
  • Demonstrated agility and ability to be adaptive, with a high willingness to learn.
  • BS/BA degree.
  • **Successful Traits:**
  • Exceptional at networking and relationship building, and ideally have an existing network of contacts within the utilities and meter manufacturer industry.
  • Results-driven - you are comfortable defining a way forward as an early ambassador in a still nascent and new market - you’ve seen the maturation of a market from selling to innovators and early adopters to late-movers.
  • Match vision with execution; you have experience thinking big as well as demonstrated success executing with strong attention to detail.
  • Passionate about environmental issues and have a close affinity for decarbonization and our planet.
  • **Travel Requirements: **
  • Ability to travel often to clients and prospects across North America. Expect ~25-40%.
Benefits
  • Flexible time away policy
  • Paid parental leave.
  • A wide range of difficult and interesting problems to be solved.
  • Work with a small team of experienced entrepreneurs creating revolutionary technology.
  • Great opportunity to gain experience at a consumer smart home startup.
  • Competitive compensation and generous healthcare benefits.
  • A great office in Central Square in Cambridge, MA right by the Red Line
  • Compensation $145k to $165k + bonus.
  • Stock Options and 401k with up to 10k match
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
full-cycle salesbusiness developmentcloud computing servicesnetworkinginfrastructuresales targetsRFP processmarket analysispresentation skillsaccount management
Soft Skills
consultative sellinginfluencerelationship buildingstrategic thinkingattention to detailadaptabilityresults-drivennetworkingcommunicationcollaboration
Certifications
BS/BA degree