Enterprise Account Executive

| Portland, OR +18 more | Remote
Employer Provided Salary: $150,000 Annually
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About the opportunity

Building on the growth already achieved by our US based sales team, we’re looking to grow our Account Executive team throughout North America.

As an Account Executive, you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by leading the end-to-end sales process from prospecting to close. You’ll be instrumental in driving new revenue opportunities, customer enablement initiatives and leading a consultative sales process by speaking the language of both professional developers and business leaders. Working in partnership with our Customer Success team, you’ll nurture and grow a customer base within North America.

As an Account Executive in this critical market, you will be the point of contact for both customers and prospects. Your role is to identify and develop new sales opportunities and grow existing accounts while ensuring customers meet their business objectives with Contentful.

What to expect?

  • Position, negotiate, and close new logo and expansion business ($50-500K ACV) in the North American territory
  • Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, managing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to customers, and creating sales proposals
  • Prospect and develop new business opportunities with existing customers and prospective customers. As part of our Product Lead Growth (PLG) motion it is critical for you to be successful conducting research, identifying key players, qualifying leads to drive new business relationships, then growing value-add relationships with key decision makers by becoming a trusted advisor
  • Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams
  • Refine and evolve our "land-and-expand" model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams
  • Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and current customers while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value based selling approach
  • Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities, as well as the greater sales ecosystem (including, but not limited to Sales Development Representatives, Account Managers, and Customer Success) to drive new business and retain customers
  • Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently
  • Work closely with Customer Success & Marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented with the respective customers
  • Your compensation plan includes Monthly and Annual accelerators for over achievement against your bookings goals.

What you need to be successful?

  • 4-8+ years of experience selling a technical platform 
  • 5+ years of individual quota carrying experience with a history of exceeding quota
  • Working knowledge of selling and positioning to customers a technical SaaS and/or PaaS platform
  • 2+ years of growing and expanding existing customer accounts in a SaaS and/or PaaS environment
  • Demonstrated ability to sell transactions of $150k+ to organizations with $1b+ in revenue, experience engaging VP and C Level executives
  • Experience working with a Partner ecosystem to land and expand customers.
  • Experience closing $$ASP
  • Ideal Candidates have:
  • Understanding of sales led growth sales motion
  • Previous CMS (content management system) experience

Ideal Candidates have:

  • Understanding of product-led growth sales motions
  • Previous CMS (content management system) experience

What's in it for you?

  • Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital products
  • Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
  • Comprehensive health/dental/vision care package covering 100% of monthly premiums for employees
  • We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous combination of a flexible time off policy, volunteer time off and paid holidays
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
  • Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career.
  • Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
  • Share and navigate the excitement of a new workplace with your CFF (Contentful First Friend)
  • Commuter benefits and monthly bill stipend
  • Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!

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Who are we?

Contentful is the leading content platform that powers digital experiences for over 30% of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of global brands. Our platform unifies content in a single hub, structures it for use in any digital channel and integrates seamlessly with hundreds of tools through open APIs. It lets developers and content creators work in parallel, increasing team efficiency and happiness. Companies such as Shopify, Staples, Atlassian, Electronic Arts, Chanel, Roche, Vodafone use Contentful to build their mobile and web products, voice-controlled apps and more. 

We’re growing rapidly and we have secured over $330 million in funding from top-tier partners such as Tiger Global, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst and Benchmark.

More than 750 people from 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.

Everyone is welcome here!

“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiting coordinator know.

Please be aware of scammers who may fraudulently allege to be from Contentful. These types of fraud can be carried out through copycat websites, fake email addresses claiming to be from our company, or social media. We do not ask for your personal information such as bank account numbers, identification numbers, etc through social media or chat-based apps, nor do we request or send money for the purchase of business equipment. If you suspect fraud, please report it to your local authorities, as well as reaching out to us at [email protected] with any information you may have.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • JavaLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PHPLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RubyLanguages
    • Chorus.AICRM
    • DocuSignCRM
    • SalesforceCRM
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • Monday.comProject Management

An Insider's view of Contentful

How does your team reward individual success?

On our team, advocacy for individual team members contribution is one of the primary pillars for how we work. Teammates are recognized in company-wide emails announcing the closure of newly won opportunities. We celebrate individual wins on global team calls and honor the work of those that have gone above and beyond to create a multiplier effect.

Sara

Vice President, Solution Engineering

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Since joining Contentful in February 2020 I have had the opportunity to take on new challenges and responsibilities and to pursue my career goals. With the support of the company, I could expand my learnings and skills and put them to work. I have started as an individual contributor and now I manage a team of seven people.

Tania

Manager, Sales Operations

What is your vision for the company?

Our vision is a world where every company can easily publish content and seamlessly iterate to create the engaging digital experiences today's customers demand. Contentful is for builders, by builders. We empower creators with the right tools to build digital better, faster. Contentful is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world.

Laurence

Senior Vice President, Customer Experience

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

We have embraced an active experimental mindset. Every individual can pitch and run an experiment that can also be cross-functional, providing wide exposure. We run bi-weekly brainstorms on these to validate regularly and sometimes include customers. Many of these have solved customer problems and ended up as paid offerings.

Arjun

Senior Manager, Professional Services

What are Contentful Perks + Benefits

Contentful Benefits Overview

With stock options and salaries that grow alongside your impact, you’ll be well taken care of. We believe that experts stay experts by continually learning. We make this happen by giving you an education budget for conferences, courses, and books.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available

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