The Role
The Account Executive will engage with potential clients, conduct prospecting, manage sales cycles, and maintain client relationships while achieving sales targets.
Summary Generated by Built In
Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
Summary
Smarsh is seeking an Account Executive, Corporate Accounts to join our fast-growing Sales team. This candidate will actively engage with prospective new clients via phone, and web conference to introduce Smarsh products and value proposition. Smarsh partners with a wide breadth of mobile (i.e., AT&T, Verizon), social (i.e., LinkedIn, Facebook) and collaboration (i.e., Slack, Microsoft) partners to deliver vital governance and compliance solutions for companies in highly regulated industries. Someone who embraces new opportunities, is motivated by professional advancement, demonstrates curiosity, enjoys problem solving, delivers excellence, and thrives in a changing, fast-growth environment is the ideal candidate. The candidate will work cross-functionally with the larger Smarsh team on several high-impact and high-visibility projects. Should possess a results-oriented mentality, have an energetic personality, know the value of being a good team player, and be driven in determining your own W2 at the end of the year!
How will you contribute?
- Actively engage with prospective new clients via phone, and web conference to introduce Smarsh products and value proposition.
- High volume of prospecting activities and lead generation within your assigned territory to identify new potential Smarsh customers in the Corporate Sales segment.
- Consistently meet or exceed quarterly bookings goal.
- Interact with Management team in 1:1, team meetings and via forecasting and reporting to provide high quality service.
- Maintain accurate and timely forecast that is kept up to date as the opportunity progresses through the sales cycle.
- Maintain accurate system hygiene in Salesforce, including keeping notes in opportunities up to date.
- Establish and maintain a positive working relationship with all colleagues and customers.
- Provide industry regulation changes and updates to our client base, as and when implemented.
- Effectively use sales tools: Salesforce, LISN, Outreach.io, Zoominfo, and others to prospect.
- Maintain coverage of accounts in territory. Coverage defined by Sales Excellence Framework.
- Manages time effectively to hit quota, KPIs and continues education in sales skills or product knowledge
- Focuses on Corporate Sales accounts 51-1000 employees or threshold determined by management.
What will you bring?
- Ability to multi-task and manage a large pipeline.
- Knowledge of financial markets and or hosted technology services is highly advantageous.
- Professional oral and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Detail oriented.
- Ability to effectively work across multiple departments.
- Quickly overcome objections.
- Very Proficient in Salesforce.com.
- 2-3 years prior SaaS or software sales experience.
- Track record of sustained success/over-achievement in a sales role.
- Experience managing the entire sales cycle, from prospecting through negotiation and closing.
- Excellent customer service and telephone manner.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiar or working knowledge of Salesforce.com.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
What do we offer?
- Healthcare insurance
- We provide medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
- Personal time off
- A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a “take-what-you-need” time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
- 401K Match
- Smarsh provides a 4% 401K match for which employees are fully vested on day one.
- Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical programme provides a time to recharge, study or simply do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.
- Recognition: We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition programme enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition
Smarsh is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Smarsh invites all qualified and interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. including the frequency of functions.
About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.
Skills Required
- 2-3 years prior SaaS or software sales experience
- Proficient in Salesforce.com
- Knowledge of financial markets and hosted technology services
- Excellent customer service and telephone manner
- Bachelor's degree preferred
Smarsh Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Smarsh and has not been reviewed or approved by Smarsh.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is characterized by unlimited PTO, generous vacation allowances, and paid holidays, with policies that support taking time away. These elements are positioned as a core strength that helps balance lower base pay in some roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks include wellness programs, commuter and bike reimbursement, volunteer time off, peer recognition, remote-work support, and a sabbatical option. The variety of non-salary benefits contributes to a supportive work-life environment.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match and profit sharing is offered, with immediate vesting described for the match. This strengthens the long-term financial component of total rewards.
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The Company
What We Do
Smarsh provides cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions for companies in regulated and litigious industries.
