Role Description
As an Senior Account Executive, you will take ownership of an assigned territory focused on bringing in our highest value net new logo opportunities. To achieve this, you will bring Dropbox’s product capabilities and value to potential clients, gain insight into their business challenges and goals, and help them find new and enlightened ways to collaborate and operate their business. The successful candidate has experience building relationships with executive-level contacts, co-selling with channel partners, and is adaptable to changing or ambiguous environments. You must be highly results-driven, customer-focused, business savvy, and innovative at building internal and external relationships to help our clients transform their businesses!
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale out a territory-specific account acquisition strategy to close new business opportunities by creatively breaking into net new logo accounts, prospecting into multiple lines of business, and being a visionary to help prospects craft their digital transformation (hunting 100% white space accounts)
- Identifying and qualifying leads, building relationships with key decision makers, understanding customer needs, delivering sales presentations, negotiating contracts, and closing deals
- Build strong relationships with local channel partners to collaboratively work with key personas within their accounts and identify opportunities for Dropbox AI products.
- Collaborate with internal teams such as marketing, product, and customer success to ensure customer satisfaction
- Mobilize and collaborate across a broad account team to create visibility with target accounts, drive engagement of target prospects at both the individual contributor and executive level, and move these accounts through the sales process
- Constantly generate pipeline through ever-evolving techniques, tools, product demonstrations, field marketing initiatives, trade shows, and top-tier channel partners
- Construct, forecast, and manage your sales activity and pipeline to meet revenue targets.
- Provide accurate forecasting and sales forecasts to management
Requirements
- 6+ years experience in B2B software sales with a track record of hunting into and closing strategic/complex deals
- Experience managing key customer relationships and closing strategic sales opportunities.
- Curiosity to learn, explain and demonstrate a highly complex product
- Consistent track record of over-achievement and net new logo accomplishments
- A hunter's mindset focused on excellence in pipeline generation and opportunity progression, including diligent planning and preparation. Strong discovery, negotiation, and closing skills are your specialty
- Contribute to the overall team culture in a positive, impactful way
- Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to build long-lasting relationships across your team and the company
- Ability to travel for marketing events and meeting partners and customers as necessary
- Extensive experience utilizing a CRM to managed account opportunities and correlate key performance metrics
- An ‘in the field’ mentality leading you to meet customers & prospects face to face wherever possible and capable of working in a Virtual First environment
- Considering candidates in Atlanta, GA, Raleigh, NC or Miami, FL metro areas
- BA or BS degree or equivalent experience
- General knowledge of generative AI and search infrastructure
- Preferred: Experience hunting and work with accounts with 1000+ employees
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$177,100—$239,700 USD
US Zone 3
$157,400—$213,000 USD
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Why Work With Us
Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.
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