
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
Tech Stack
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
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