Director Account Executives (SMB)
KnowBe4 · Clearwater, FL · 1 wk ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
Responsibilities
- Manage and coach a team of 8-12 Account Executives to develop a strong team of world class sales professionals
- Maintain an accurate pipeline for your team and conduct weekly pipeline reviews with all of your Account Executives to ensure forecast accuracy and sales goal achievement
- Coach and support the Account Executives by assisting with closing deals by tags, handling customer objections, reactivating dark deals, and handling coaching plans and drilling as needed to improve skills
- Maintain accurate reporting and pipeline management
- Prioritize the workload and direct the activities of Account Executives
- Identify areas of improvement and suggest/execute training and/or disciplinary actions to increase production
- Be an expert on closing, negotiating, prospecting and other sales techniques that are necessary to be a top performer and consistently achieve sales quota
- Handle day to day needs of the sales team they manage
- Provide genuine recommendations as to the hiring, firing, disciplining, and promoting of subordinate employees to which the organization gives significant weight
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
- 2+ years management experience preferred
- SaaS sales background preferred
- Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
- Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
- Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
- Leadership skills required
- Mastery of closing techniques, discovery questions, prospecting, building rapport and other key elements of the sales cycle
- Strong verbal and written communications
- Excellent time management and organization skills
Benefits
We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment.