Alliance Sales Executive, Associate Director, Adobe - Industrial Products & Energy
About the role
EY’s Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP) function unites sales leadership, sector insight, technology expertise, and solution depth to drive market-leading growth. As EY’s growth catalyst, S&SP shapes and executes integrated go-to-market strategies across priority accounts, industry sectors, and strategic alliances—delivering differentiated value through a deeply client-centric culture.
Responsibilities
- Sales Origination
- Relentlessly originate net-new pipeline within Industrial Products & Energy by identifying unmet needs, emerging priorities, and experience-led transformation opportunities
- Drive sales across three core channels:
- Direct client origination
- Adobe field-led co-sell motions
- EY account team-led pursuits
- Lead early-stage opportunity identification and qualification, independently shaping pursuits from signal detection through deal maturation
- Adobe Alliance Leadership
- Act as a trusted partner to Adobe I&E field teams, evangelizing for EY by building credibility and mindshare across account executives, solution consultants, and sales leadership
- Evangelize and position EY’s Adobe-powered offerings and bespoke solutions, including customer experience (CX), digital commerce, personalization, content supply chain, and data-driven marketing
- Shape joint go-to-market motions and influence Adobe investment toward EY-led pursuits
- Industrial Products & Energy Industry Impact
- Demonstrate deep understanding of the most pressing challenges facing I&E organizations, including complex buying journeys, channel fragmentation, legacy customer engagement models, inconsistent data, and pressure to differentiate through experience
- Translate Adobe capabilities into outcomes that resonate with I&E executives, including:
- End-to-end customer and distributor experience transformation
- Personalized, data-driven B2B and B2B2C engagement
- Digital commerce and customer self-service enablement
- Content lifecycle and digital asset optimization
- Real-time customer insights powered by AI and data
- AI-Enabled Selling & Innovation
- Infuse AI into the full sales lifecycle, including:
- Account and opportunity analytics
- Intelligent prospecting and prioritization
- Pattern recognition across pipeline and buying signals
- AI-supported storytelling, proposal shaping, and pursuit orchestration
- Integrating and leveraging digital sales agents across the entire sales lifecycle
- Champion AI-enabled EY and Adobe solutions, including generative AI and content innovation (e.g., Adobe Firefly), with credibility and business impact
- Serve as a role model for modern, AI-forward sales execution, helping elevate sales effectiveness across teams
- Market Leadership & Collaboration
- Deep I&E sector knowledge and Adobe platform expertise, with the ability to translate that knowledge into enterprise-scale, experience-led transformations that deliver measurable business outcomes
- Be the face of EY’s Adobe Alliance within Industrial Products & Energy and the face of EY to Adobe I&E teams
- This role requires an individual who can envision and activate a multi-alliance ecosystem, helping position EY as the firm that orchestrates partners, platforms, and services to unlock new growth and transformation opportunities for clients
- Orchestrate cross-service-line and cross-functional teams to bring the best of EY to pursuit opportunities
- Coach and influence account teams and peers through active leadership in the market—not authority alone
Qualifications
- 10+ years of quota-carrying sales experience in professional services, technology, and/or enterprise solutions
- Demonstrated success as a net-new business hunter, not solely an account or alliance manager
- Direct experience selling to Industrial Products and/or Energy clients, with deep understanding of industry challenges and go-to-market complexity
- Strong Adobe ecosystem experience, including co-sell and partner-led motions
- Deep knowledge of the Adobe platform, including Experience Cloud, data, content, and AI-driven capabilities
- Experience with the broader Adobe partner ecosystem and how Adobe fits into a multi-vendor enterprise landscape
- Prior experience selling at a Big Four firm or large global systems integrator
- Exceptional client relationship management and executive communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
Desired Qualifications
- Technical background or delivery/program leadership experience
- Experience selling large, complex, multi-stakeholder transformation programs
- Strong coaching and mentoring capability
- Proven team-selling experience across alliances and solution teams
- Willingness to travel up to 50%
What we offer you
- We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.
- The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $221,410 to $280,070 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives.
- In the New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento), the base salary range for this job is $265,650 to $318,290 plus participation in an incentive compensation program applicable to Sales Executives.
- Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
- In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
- We provide a flexible vacation policy, where you'll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances.
- You'll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
Equal Employment Opportunity
EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at ssc.customersupport@ey.com.