Strategic Account Executive

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Raleigh, NC
Senior level
Software
The Role
The Strategic Account Executive at Bandwidth will identify and develop new business within assigned customer targets, maintain relationships to maximize sales, and analyze customer and market needs. They will collaborate with teams to upsell post-sale and utilize sales resources effectively.
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Who We Are:

Bandwidth delivers world-class messaging, voice, and emergency service connectivity for the world’s biggest brands. We are the APIs and global network behind the platforms that the Global 2000’s use to power their internal communications, contact center platforms, apps, and software. We transform interactions for top-tier orgs—and we do it on a global scale. We’re the only ones who marry the power of our global network with the control and agility offered by our enterprise-grade APIs. Unmatched reliability meets unparalleled control. That’s the Bandwidth way.

At Bandwidth, your music matters when you are part of the BAND.  We celebrate differences and encourage BANDmates to be their authentic selves.  #jointheband

What We Are Looking For:

We are seeking an Strategic Account Executive with experience selling complex SaaS and/or CPaaS solutions to identify and develop new business, provide product solutions, ensure customer satisfaction, and maintain positive ongoing relationships to maximize sales for the company. Candidates must have a proven track record of successful client acquisition, relationship management, matrix level selling, RFP response management and creating partnership opportunities with large prospective customers.

What You'll Do:

  • Work closely with your Sales Development team to drive the sourcing of strategic leads within an assigned set of customer targets
  • Identify and build new account relationships from leads, cold calls, and other internal sources made available to you
  • After winning new business you will maintain and grow the acquired new business to maximize revenue growth, while continuing efforts in new business development.
  • Analyze customer and market needs, pricing models and network operations input. Provide feedback through internal channels so course correction can be made quickly and efficiently
  • Collaborate with teams of account managers to upsell business post sale
  • Sell through multiple levels of an account target, by building relationships and utilizing multiple resources within Bandwidth

What You Need:

  • History of exceeding sale quota
  • 7 + years of experience selling large, complex solutions into the fortune 500 companies
  • Possess a deep understanding of the complexities around products and technology integrations
  • Strong business development sales experience to acquire Global branded NEW industry logos
  • Proficient in the use of internal resources (lead generation, marketing events, industry practices) to identify target accounts and build the required relationship to WIN
  • Exceptional team building skills as you will work closely with cross-functional teams
  • Bachelor Degree, Business. Marketing/Sales, or similar

Bonus Points:

  • Experience in solution selling, CPaaS, UCaaS, or SaaS services
  • Familiarity with the telecom ecosystem 
  • Experience with Salesforce.com preferred

The Whole Person Promise:

At Bandwidth, we’re pretty proud of our corporate culture, which is rooted in our “Whole Person Promise.” We promise all employees that they can have meaningful work AND a full life, and we provide a work environment geared toward enriching your body, mind, and spirit. How do we do that? Well…

  • 100% company-paid Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage for you and your family with low deductibles and low out-of-pocket expenses.
  • All new hires receive four weeks of PTO.
  • PTO Embargo. When you take time off (of any kind!) you’re embargoed from working. Bandmates and managers are not allowed to interrupt your PTO – not even with email.
  • Additional PTO can be earned throughout the year through volunteer hours and Bandwidth challenges.
  • “Mahalo moments” program grants additional time off for life’s most important moments like graduations, buying a first home, getting married, wedding anniversaries (every five years), and the birth of a grandchild.
  • 90-Minute Workout Lunches and unlimited meetings with our very own nutritionist.

Are you excited about the position and its responsibilities, but not sure if you’re 100% qualified? Do you feel you can work to help us crush the mission? If you answered ‘yes’ to both of these questions, we encourage you to apply! You won’t want to miss the opportunity to be a part of the BAND.

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Top Skills

Cpaas
SaaS
The Company
Denver, CO
943 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Bandwidth is a software company that’s transforming the way people communicate and challenging the standards of old telecom. Together with our customers, we’re unlocking remarkable value, questioning the status quo, and helping people interact with technology and one another, oftentimes in ways they never dreamed possible.

Haven’t heard of Bandwidth? You’ve probably used one of our products before. We power some of the most important communications technologies on the market today—names like Google, Skype and Ring Central to name a few. At Bandwidth, we’ve got a passion for doing things the other way—imagining what they could be and uncovering opportunities to take a new approach to create what should be. We’re out to disrupt the century-old rules of the telecom industry—and that means doing things differently in every area of our business. It’s in the way we treat our people, and how we create with our customers. Whether our engineering teams are crunching code during all-night hack-a-thons or our team members are competing in a Big Idea competition, we love to dive in and get our hands dirty. No idea at Bandwidth is too big or too small, and every voice gets a listen.

Our folks have diverse backgrounds from all over the world. Crave innovation? We live for it. No one here is getting a blue ribbon for shaking their head and agreeing with the higher ups. At Bandwidth, we don’t hold back. We speak our minds, share our ideas—and let them soar. We think, we dream, we reimagine what’s possible…because we know that’s the only way we can unlock remarkable value. And that’s what really gets us fired up.

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