
Enterprise Sales Executive – Technology Sector
Wowza
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
About the role
- **Key Responsibilities**
- **Full-Cycle Sales:** Identify, qualify, and close new and expansion business with technology and education companies. Self-source roughly 40 % of your pipeline while leveraging inbound leads and channel partners.
- **Multi‑Step Sales Process:**
- Map out user, economic, and executive buyers within target companies.
- Perform focused cold calls and discovery to surface pain points.
- Conduct demos that highlight workflow inefficiencies and illustrate how Wowza drives efficiency and cost savings.
- Navigate RFI, RFQ, and RFP submissions; align proposals with customer and prospect-specific requirements and procurement rules.
- Build internal champions and reference other customer successes to gain buy‑in from all stakeholders.
- **Sector Expertise:** Develop credibility across the technology sector, understanding each domain’s mission, budget cycle, and regulatory constraints. Stay current on streaming technologies and emerging trends in embedded systems and video workflows.
- **Customer Advocacy:** Serve as a liaison between customers and Wowza’s product, engineering, and solutions teams. Translate customer requirements into actionable proposals and ensure their voice is heard internally.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Coordinate with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Marketing, Finance, and Legal to ensure compliant onboarding, adoption, and contract execution.
- **Pipeline & Forecasting:** Maintain a healthy, accurate sales pipeline using a CRM system. Provide reliable revenue forecasts and insights to leadership.
- **Quota Achievement:** Consistently meet or exceed annual and quarterly sales targets by closing deals in the $30K–$250K range. Typical sales cycles run 45–70 days, depending on procurement complexity.
Requirements
- **Qualifications**
- **Technology sector Sales Experience:** 5+ years of enterprise sales experience selling software or technology solutions to Technology companies and institutions, including public and private companies.
- **Technical Acumen:** Solid understanding of video streaming workflows and embedded video technologies; able to explain complex concepts to non‑technical buyers.
- **Proven Performance:** Strong history of meeting or surpassing quota, with deal sizes between $30K and $250K. Familiarity with solution-selling frameworks such as MEDDIC, Challenger, or Sandler.
- **Procurement Fluency:** Experience navigating various procurement processes—including RFIs, RFQs, RFPs—and leveraging cooperative purchasing vehicles.
- **Relationship Building:** Ability to develop trusted advisor relationships at all levels (IT users, economic buyers, executive sponsors) and shepherd them through multi-step procurement.
- **Communication & Presentation:** Excellent storytelling and demo skills; able to frame solutions around efficiency and problem-solving.
- **Drive & Resilience:** Self-motivated with a sense of urgency; comfortable managing long, complex sales cycles.
- **Collaborative Mindset:** Track record of working effectively with internal teams to deliver value and drive expansion.
Benefits
- **Benefits & Perks**
- - Competitive salary: $200,000 - $250,000 OTE (base salary + commission)
- - Generous Paid Time Off
- - Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (effective Day 1)
- - 401(k) with strong company match
- - Dependent Care FSA
- - Employer-paid Life Insurance and AD&D
- - Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- - Paid Parental Leave
- - Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- - Training & Development opportunities
- - Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
enterprise salesvideo streaming workflowsembedded video technologiessolution-selling frameworksMEDDICChallengerSandlerprocurement processesRFIRFP
Soft skills
relationship buildingcommunicationpresentationstorytellingcollaborative mindsetdriveresilienceself-motivatedproblem-solvingcross-functional collaboration