Account Executive

Job description

Join the team as Twilio’s next New Business Account Executive 4 on our High Tech team!

This position is needed to lead prospecting, solution selling and closing new business opportunities across our Messaging, Voice and Email products. In this role, you will be directly responsible for expanding our messaging business with some of the largest and fastest growing mid-market and enterprise companies in the High Tech vertical. New Business Account Executives are experts in the CPaaS ecosystem and Twilio’s product offerings. This role is highly cross functional, with deep integration with product management, carrier relations, finance, and solutions engineering teams.

We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, approximately 20% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way.

Responsibilities

• Drive new customer acquisition, while being assigned a quota for iACV (incremental Account Contract Value)
• Own highly analytical and consultative sales cycles to win business in competitive vendor sourcing cycles with Twilio’s messaging (e.g. SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Business Messages, Account Security, etc.), voice and email solutions.
• Work with customers across assigned verticals (Financial Services) to understand their business and technical requirements, and match them to the capabilities of Twilio’s communications API platform, designing a solution for their specific use cases.
• Work with teams in Finance, Legal, Pricing, and Operations to design mutually beneficial contracts to address customer requirements, while balancing the needs of our business.
• Be passionate about what you do, think outside the box, and use world-class interpersonal and communication skills to present complex contractual, technical, and financial details to prospects in a way that builds confidence and comfort in the proposed solution.
• Balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects and deals at the same time.
• Partner cross functionally with sales, services, product, and finance to develop long range territory strategies and sales plans.
• Act as the voice of the customer to Twilio’s product and carrier relations teams.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the CPaaS industry - staying up to date on key industry initiatives and new capabilities - on behalf of your customers and the wider Twilio go-to-market organization.
• Generate and maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce.
• Stay current with industry changes and collaborate with your team and peers to learn and share best practices

Requirements

• Possess a total of 8 years of tech sales experience, with a minimum of 6 years in a closing role
• Directly selling technical SaaS or CPaaS and experience solution selling and multi-threading
• Experience outbound prospecting into new accounts and a strong “hunter” mentality for bringing in Mid-Market and Enterprise sized accounts
• Technical solutions selling experience working with real customers and prospects, listening to them, and solving problems
• Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships
• Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value
• Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models
• Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define process and build programs
• Record of delivering market driven results, especially to scale and enterprise customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience
• Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms.