Account Executive - Splunk (Remote)
Cisco · West Des Moines, IA · Yesterday
Business Development$260k–$352k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a hardworking, driven, sales professional to drive revenue growth calling on large enterprise accounts.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrates multi-faceted, highly complex deal cycles, often involving multiple stakeholders with significant incremental revenue growth.
- Typically prospects new deals with C-suite, buyers, executives at all levels.
- Cultivates expert knowledge of the security, observability and cloud/SaaS market knowledge, advising customers on lifecycle adoption and alignment with customer strategic initiatives.
- Anticipates evolving customer needs, leveraging specialized knowledge of customer business models, industry trends, and value drivers.
- Applies competitor and customer insights to build effective account strategy and relationship map.
- Ledges executive-level engagements by championing innovative, customer-first strategies that drive business transformation and long-term value realization.
- Expertly navigates commercial, legal, and technical requirements and risks to realize business value.
- Leads negotiations with a consultative approach by balancing competitive pricing, service levels, and contractual commitments to secure customer-first agreements.
- Reviews, prioritizes, and aligns customer needs and Splunk portfolio strategy to drive significant incremental annual contract value.
- Ledges Splunk account planning and leverages innovative channels to identify new consumption options within Splunk while mitigating risk.
- Demonstrates deep technical comprehension of technical solutions and their long-term value/ROI in customer context.
- Integrates CRM data with business intelligence tools to develop scalable operational frameworks for sales process optimization and tool utilization.
- Partners with other account executive resources to provide insights to Rev Ops, finance, legal, and procurement teams for cross-functional workflow enhancement.
- Champions GTM-wide collaboration that influences Splunk and customer organizations.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience applying partners, channels, and alliances to sell more efficiently and overachieve your quota.
- Relevant software experience in any of the following: IT systems, enterprise or infrastructure management, application development and management, DevOps, security, business applications, and/or analytics.
- Subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software experience is preferred.
- Consistent track record of new business development and overachieving sales targets with prospects and customers in the defined territory.
- Strong executive presence and polish, and excellent listening skills.
- Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques; knowledge of Force Management, MEDDPICC, and Challenger methodologies is a plus.
Benefits
No benefits are mentioned in the job posting.
Pay
The starting salary range posted for this position is $259,900.00 to $351,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Schedule
No schedule is mentioned in the job posting.