Jobs · Business Development · Illinois

Commercial Account Executive - Financial Services

Salesforce · Chicago, IL · 2 days ago
HybridBusiness Development$78k–$189k/yrFull-time

About the role

Our up-market Commercial team focuses on working with growing organizations of 250–10,000 employees across the Financial Services industry, including Banking, Insurance, and Wealth & Asset Management. As a Commercial Account Executive, you won't just sell AI agents — you'll work alongside them to accelerate revenue, build trusted customer relationships, and drive meaningful impact.

Responsibilities

  • Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts, aligned to their business objectives
  • Coordinate internal Salesforce resources and perform account planning, partnering with Prime and Cloud sales teams to ensure strategic alignment
  • Drive growth within existing accounts and develop new opportunities through warm leads and whitespace prospecting
  • Share the Salesforce value proposition with existing and prospective customers and help them realize value from their Salesforce investments

Requirements

  • 3+ years of full cycle, field-based sales experience
  • Proven track record of managing customer accounts to drive upsell and cross-sell opportunities, or acquiring new logo accounts
  • Ability to build and deliver compelling presentations to customers and C-suite stakeholders
  • Ability to strategize and collaborate effectively with a large, extended team

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5–10 years of full cycle sales experience with a focus on technology or SaaS solutions
  • Experience selling into Financial Services accounts (Banking, Insurance, or Wealth & Asset Management)
  • Familiarity with the Salesforce platform and Customer 360 solutions
  • Experience in competency-based selling; we evaluate experience across extracurricular leadership, military service, volunteer roles, and work history

Benefits

Unleash Your Potential When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best.

Pay

The typical base salary range for this position is $77,550 - $189,350 annually. In California and New York, and select cities in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range for this role in those locations is $85,300 - $208,300 per year.

Schedule

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

Similar jobs

Commercial Account Executive

TDS Telecommunications LLCMenomonie, WI· 2 wk ago
Business Development$127k/yrapply on external-telecom-teldta.icims.com