Account Executive, Strategic Enterprise

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Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire an Account Executive, Strategic Enterprise to the Sales & Customer Experience team.

Why join Sprout’s Sales & Customer Experience team?

At Sprout Social, our Sales and Customer Experience team is the driving force behind how today’s most innovative brands use Sprout to power the future of customer connection. We sell and support the leading social intelligence platform for businesses, helping organizations unlock the full value of social data to drive strategic decisions. Through powerful social intelligence and trusted partnership, we enable teams to build authentic relationships and drive meaningful business impact.

In this role, you will collaborate with the brightest minds in the industry to support global giants like Salesforce, Airbnb, and Equifax. Just as importantly, we believe in the power of our people. You’ll find a culture that honors your ambition, encourages you to explore new horizons, and provides the framework for you to build a career that matters. If you’re ready to champion innovation and accelerate your impact, this is where you can do your best work.

What you’ll do

• Develop an account growth strategy with a select subset of named customer accounts, while working to develop net new pipeline that translates to revenue in assigned prospect accounts
• Manage the enterprise purchasing process in a global organization by working with partners across procurement, legal, security, etc.
• Own your numbers - consistently meet and exceed your quota
• Establish deep relationships within your book of business through multi-threading, achieving both executive or VP level and end user engagement

What you’ll bring

Sprout Social is looking for a highly driven and tech-savvy Account Executive with strong business acumen to join our expanding Strategic Enterprise sales team. Ideally, you will be equally driven by a customer-centric mentality to grow customer accounts.

These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:

• 8+ years of software sales experience, with the majority in a closing role
• Proven success selling complex enterprise solutions
• Consistent overperformance in previous roles (top 5% of company)

Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:

• Experience establishing deep relationships, presenting and selling to C-suite level decision makers across multiple functions
• Experience working in a ‘team selling’ environment and managing a team of supporting account resources
• Accurately forecasts and manages pipeline on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Fiercely passionate about the impact social media can have on a large enterprise

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including

• Complete Sprout Social’s 3-week new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and

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salary plus incentives at target performance. Incentive compensation will vary based on performance. Offers are made within this range, with opportunities to grow within the broader band based on performance and impact.

We share both our current hiring range and our broader geographic salary bands to provide transparency into our compensation philosophy. This ensures you understand not only your starting potential but also the long-term growth opportunities available as you progress in your role.

The full OTE range for this role is CA$332,000 – CA$498,000.

These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the interview process or to submit your application, please email us at accommodations@sproutsocial.com. Include the nature of your request and your preferred contact information. We'll do everything we can to support your success during our recruitment process while upholding your privacy. Please note that only inquiries regarding accommodations will receive a response from this email address; other inquiries will not be addressed (e.g., you send your resume but are not requesting an accommodation).

Candidates for this remote work opportunity must be based in either Alberta, British Columbia or Ontario. If you are based in another location within Canada, we aren’t able to hire in your location at this time.
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