Account Executive

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire an Account Executive, Large Enterprise to the Sales & Success team.

Why join Sprout’s Sales & Success team?

At Sprout Social, our Sales and Customer Experience team is the driving force behind how today’s most innovative brands use Sprout to power the future of customer connection. We sell and support the leading social intelligence platform for businesses, helping organizations unlock the full value of social data to drive strategic decisions.  Through powerful social intelligence and trusted partnership, we enable teams to build authentic relationships and drive meaningful business impact.

In this role, you will collaborate with the brightest minds in the industry to support global giants like PwC, Publicis Groupe, and Bank of Ireland. Just as importantly, we believe in the power of our people. You’ll find a culture that honors your ambition, encourages you to explore new horizons, and provides the framework for you to build a career that matters. If you’re ready to champion innovation and accelerate your impact, this is where you can do your best work.

What you’ll do

• Prospect, develop and close sales opportunities with a focus on acquisition and new logos in the large enterprise segment.
• Own your numbers - consistently meet and exceed your activity goals (prospecting and meetings completed) to build a fruitful pipeline that will provide consistent quota retirement.
• Establish deep relationships within your book of business through multi-threading, achieving both executive or VP level and end user engagement.

What you’ll bring

Sprout Social is looking for a highly driven and tech-savvy Account Executive with strong business acumen to join our expanding Large Enterprise sales team. Ideally, you will be equally driven by a customer-centric mentality as well as a desire to find and close new business.

These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:

• 5+ years of closing experience in B2B sales
• Proven success selling/cross-selling to large enterprise organizations (5,000+ global employees)
• Ability to manage a large number of prospective accounts and identify problems, opportunities and consultatively provide solutions for each of them

Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:

• Experience building relationships, presenting and selling to senior level decision makers across multiple functions
• SaaS experience preferred
• Experience working with internal partners and cross-functional stakeholders to increase deal momentum and exceed both prospects and customers expectations

How you’ll grow

Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:

• Complete Sprout Social’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization.
• Partner with Enterprise Leadership  to define key success metrics for your role and how you will measure against them.
• Meet with current members of the Enterprise Sales team individually to understand what’s working, what’s not, and gather learnings to implement into your role.
• Shadow Account Executives on calls live or through Gong to learn sales strategies and positioning.
• Dive right into our platform to learn about what makes our platform unique, how our solution impacts business objectives and why customers love our solutions.
• Learn Sprout’s go-to-market messaging, key differentiators, develop and personalize segment-specific value propositions.
• Learn the relevant customer stories and case studies to justify your value propositions with real ROI examples from the field.
• Complete a demo and written certification to ensure comprehension.
• Learn Sprout’s existing customer sales process by shadowing your peers.

Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:

• Meet with all your existing customers within the book of business and begin the process of building relationships with key strategic stakeholders.
• Identifying the top 20-25% of new logo opportunities within your book of business to create focus and execution in your weekly prospecting activities.
• Understand the language of all your customers and where we can expand our offerings by expansion into new business units or increasing utilization of our platform with existing customers.
• Own your numbers - consistently meet and exceed your activity  goals to build a fruitful pipeline that will provide consistent quota attainment after ramp.
• Co-build account & territory plans with your BDR &, Solutions Engineers teammates.
• Regularly meet with your BDR to define a relationship that ensures seamless communication and coordination on all net new business generation and expansion opportunities.
• Conduct active research leveraging all available tools and data sources to understand your customers’ brand, culture, KPIs, partners, and success metrics so you can add value throughout your interactions and become a trusted advisor.
• Gain a solid understanding of your customer’s internal transitions and mitigate the risk of customer churn.

Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:

• Have built solid relationships at the C-Level with existing customers within your “book of business".
• Have built strong internal relationships with your peers, customer success, professional services, solutions engineering, our legal partners and others who will take part in your deal cycles. You will have a deep understanding of each team’s partnership expectations and service level agreement..
• Have built 4X your monthly quota target of net new logo pipeline.
• Become a Sprout Social and social media expert to confidently speak to ever-changing trends, new product features and platform enhancements to help our customers realize their full potential and accomplish their goals.
• Consistently achieve your monthly and quarterly revenue targets.

Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:

• Mentor and develop your BDR to become best in class at their respective functions and further advance their skill sets and career trajectory.
• Step up as a peer leader to share best practices across the organization and help others grow from your experiences.
• Consistently meet and exceed monthly activity, pipeline and new business metrics.

Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.

Our Benefits Program

We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product, and culture. We invest in our team with a comprehensive benefits program:

• Comprehensive Private Health: 100% premium coverage for you and your eligible dependents through AXA Health, including benefits for dental and vision.
• Pension Scheme: We contribute 4% to your NEST pension (on top of your 5% contribution).
• Generous Paid Time Off: 25 days of paid leave, plus all public/bank holidays and additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days.
• Paid Parental Leave: We support all growing families with 26 weeks of full pay for birthing parents and 16 weeks of full pay for non-birthing parents.
• Family & Care Support: Access to subsidized child/eldercare through Care.com.
• Premium Mental Health Support: Full access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including free coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): An annual $700 USD fund to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
• Work From Home Support: A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
• Career Development: Full access to our internal Grow@Sprout program for career pathing, plus learning platforms and mentorship.
• Charitable Giving: A company match for your donations to eligible organizations.

*This list is for informational purposes only. Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change and do not constitute a contract or guarantee of benefits.

Our salary ranges reflect the expected earning potential for this role. Individual pay is based on geographic zone, relevant experience, and skills.

Our current hiring range for this role: £148,000.00 – £185,000.00 OTE annually. OTE is governed by an incentive plan. It is the sum of a fixed base salary plus incentives at target performance. Incentive compensation will vary based on performance. Offers are made within this range, with opportunities to grow within the broader band based on performance and impact.

We share both our current hiring range and our broader geographic salary bands to provide transparency into our compensation philosophy. This ensures you understand not only your starting potential but also the long-term growth opportunities available as you progress in your role.

The full OTE range for this role is £148,000.00 - £203,500

These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.

If you require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the interview process or to submit your application, please email us at accommodations@sproutsocial.com. Include the nature of your request and your preferred contact information. We'll do everything we can to support your success during our recruitment process while upholding your privacy. Please note that only inquiries regarding accommodations will receive a response from this email address; other inquiries will not be addressed (e.g., you send your resume but are not requesting an accommodation). 

Candidates for this remote work opportunity must be based in either England, Northern Ireland, or Wales. If you are based in another location within the United Kingdom, we aren’t able to hire in your location at this time.

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