Enterprise Account Executive, US & Canada (North America Enterprise Sales Team)
Semrush · Austin, TX · 2 wk ago
Business Development$251k–$303k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Sales team is at the forefront of empowering businesses to achieve online visibility and digital marketing success. Through our selling approach and world-class enablement programs, we equip our team with the tools, resources, and training. This is how we keep delivering meaningful results for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for driving revenue growth through new customer acquisition, upselling and cross-selling, and renewals.
- Working closely with the Sales Development team, Customer Success team, and Marketing team to identify and engage prospects, understand their needs, and build strong relationships.
- Drive revenue growth by generating new business, upselling and cross-selling, and renewals.
- Manage the sales cycle from prospecting to close. Comfortable with longer and more complex selling cycles with multiple stakeholders.
- Dealing with Legal/Finance/IT requirements.
- Manage and maintain a healthy pipeline of key customers and continuously find new opportunities for our customers and qualified prospects and opportunities.
- Collaborate with Sales Development, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to develop and execute account plans.
- Maintain strong relationships with existing customers, understanding their business needs and providing additional Semrush Solutions to optimize growth.
- KPIs of high-volume calls, minutes, demos, and strategic focus on outreach and follow-up personalized cadences to strengthen customer relationships.
- Identify and close cross-sell/up-sell opportunities using the Semrush suite of products.
- Deliver a value-based selling experience to our customers based on automation and customer behavior.
- Accurately forecast monthly/quarterly sales and retention achievement to management.
- Contribute feedback to the larger Semrush organization by utilizing strong analytical thinking, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Identify best practices to refine the company’s lead generation playbook.
Requirements
- Proven 5+ years of experience in enterprise sales, SaaS sales, or a similar customer-facing role.
- A results-driven approach with a history of consistently exceeding targets.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- A deep understanding of digital marketing trends and SEO concepts (preferred but not required).
- A self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and as part of a team coming from outbound based organizations.
- Experience selling to enterprise accounts in industries such as retail, finance, SaaS, or marketing agencies ($500m + in annual revenues).
- Familiarity with CRM tools and data-driven selling strategies.
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
Qualifications
- Alignment with our core values: Trust, Sense of Ownership, Constant Changes.
Skills
- Strong product-market fit recognized by RepVue.
- High earning potential with clear quota attainment visibility.
- Life insurance.
- Low cost medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
- Dependent Care Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Health Savings Account.
- Short-term and long-term Disability.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Paid parental leave.
- Relief Fund.
- Travel coverage.
Benefits
- Annual Total Cash Compensation salary range: $250,500.00 to $303,000.00.
- Flexible approach for an interview format.
Pay
The annual Total Cash Compensation salary range for this position is $250,500.00 to $303,000.00. Actual pay within this range depends on several factors, including work location and individual qualifications.
Schedule
Travel is recommended but not necessary or required.