Account Executive

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers developers and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers enhance conversions and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S. Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report rated a leader by the analyst community and named a top place to work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

The Enterprise Account Executive will play a key role in driving Acquia’s business development and sales activities.

The ideal candidate needs to have experience selling sophisticated Web Development projects and/or Web Content Management software and/or SaaS and have an outstanding passion for success MEDDIC experience would be ideal! The role reports directly to the Director of Enterprise Sales North America.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Execute a go-to-market strategy for Acquia's offerings; built on individualized business cases by customer

• Identify and nurture positive relationships with key corporate C-level representatives through prospecting marketing leads and expansion of existing contacts within accounts

• Build and nurture a strong sales pipeline and forecast through discovery calls and meetings

• Drive the sales process and handle the contract and approval process of new deals including negotiating on price and getting approvals including contract terms

• Meet or exceed set Quota targets and Key Performance Indicators for sales based activities

• Maintain accurate and realistic forecasts

• Handle all information in our Salesforce.com CRM system

• Act as coach and mentor to BDRs you work with on prospecting

• Build awareness for Drupal and Acquia within large Enterprises and System Integrators

• Build and nurture relationships with new and existing Acquia partners

Qualifications:

• Deep experience with SaaS technologies preferably around website development or Web Content Management

• Comfortable with value creation selling

• Can demonstrate results from own pipeline generation; is a natural 'hunter'

• Demonstrated ability to handle both direct and indirect opportunities

• Experienced in a new business Sales role ideally within a similar start up and high growth organization

• MEDDIC

Attributes:

• Highly motivated overachiever standout colleague

• A high level of intensity to work with an experienced motivated leadership team passionate about creating a significantly sized company in a short timeframe

• A passion for excellence including an innate desire to build a metric driven business

• Coachable

• Excellent thought leadership traits with the ability to successfully drive fundamental changes in web strategies

• Strong analytical and writing abilities

• Outstanding presentation skills

• Strong work ethic

• Entrepreneurial spirit/attitude flexibility toward multifaceted change

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits offerings to our employees and their families in maintaining both a healthy body and a healthy mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage wellness programs take it when you need it time off parental leave recognition programs and much more!

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age color disability gender (including gender identity) marital status national origin race religion sex sexual orientation veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.

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