Smarsh

Sr. Account Executive, Enterprise (EMEA)

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London, England, GBR

Hybrid

Expert/Leader

Software

The Role

Lead end-to-end sales process for SaaS compliance solutions to enterprise clients, building relationships and achieving sales quotas.

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.

As part of our Enterprise Business Unit, this role serves as a strategic leader within our Enterprise Sales Team and a trusted partner to our largest global clients across the world. This role leads our end-to-end sales process based on a deep understanding of our offerings and an uncanny ability to build relationships and understand the unique needs of our clients.

This role is an exciting opportunity for an experienced sales leader who has the willingness to go deep with our clients to understand their needs and the intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and maniacal work ethic needed to help us solve for their needs. This role has the unique opportunity to influence senior-level stakeholders internally and externally and the most successful incumbents will have a strong internal drive for results and passion to win.

How will you contribute?

Develop meaningful business relationships with key stakeholders and influencers, driving value-led conversations and presentations to articulate Smarsh’s strategic impact on their organization.
Lead generation, qualification & opportunity management to closure.
Deliver new business to Enterprise-level customers in a defined geographical territory by promoting our SaaS based compliance solutions.
Influence internal key stakeholders to drive effectiveness and collaboration for closing enterprise-wide deals.
Consistently deliver against your quota, while prioritizing and delivering outstanding customer sales experience.
Maintain accurate and timely forecasts throughout the sales cycle on a weekly basis.
Negotiate and participate in contractual processes through close.

What will you bring?

A minimum of 10+ years proven experience and history of quota achievement selling into global, large enterprise accounts.
Proven and successful experience selling to regulated industries such as financial services.
Effective at building and maintaining collaborative relationships with key decision-makers and C-Suite executives within prospect organizations.
Proven ability to sell through multi-gen sales cycles.
You have demonstrated excellence in the past as a top performer in previous roles and are highly achievement orientated.
Excellent communications and negotiation skills.
Ability to maneuver through the grey by strategically assessing customer needs to translate them into technical solutions.
Direct experience with Salesforce or another CRM system.
Ideal candidate has experience with a sales methodology such as MEDDIC and experience selling to strong Champion and Economic Buyer relationships.
Familiarity with tools such as Salesforce, PowerBI, Outreach, Gong are all a "plus".

What do we offer?

We value our people and offer a competitive salary.
Strong maternity and paternity scheme
A workplace pension scheme
Take what you need holiday package
Private medical insurance
Dental plan
Group life assurance
Group income protection
Employee assistance programme
A monthly wellness allowance
Adoption assistance
Stock options

Don't meet every requirement? Apply anyway! We value diverse candidates and encourage applications, even if you don't perfectly match the job description. Studies have shown that some strong candidates may self-select out of the interview process prematurely, at Smarsh we encourage an inclusive, high-performing environment.

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 interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Including 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

Minimum of 10+ years proven experience in sales
History of quota achievement selling into global, large enterprise accounts
Proven experience selling to regulated industries such as financial services
Excellent communications and negotiation skills
Direct experience with Salesforce or another CRM system
Experience with sales methodologies such as MEDDIC
Familiarity with tools such as PowerBI, Outreach, Gong

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.

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.
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.
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.