Account Executive - Enterprise

We’re growing quickly and we’re looking for a confident and driven Account Executive to join our team and introduce new prospects to Muck Rack win new business and contribute to our growth.

As an Account Executive you will be focused on winning new customers in the enterprise segment of Muck Rack. You should be excited about working in a fast-paced environment with a diverse range of agency and brand prospects. You’ll be a great fit for this role if building rapport and guiding prospects through a sales process comes naturally to you.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for a portion of Muck Rack sales leads

• Achieve sales goals and meet activity quota requirements

• Respond to inbound demo requests and prospect for self-generated opportunities

• Demo Muck Rack at meetings on calls and at events

• Negotiate contracts and close deals

How success will be measured in this role:

• Individual revenue goal

• Pipeline generation and prospecting activity

If the details below describe you you could be a great fit for this role:

• At least 3 years of professional experience with 2 years of Account Executive experience in SaaS OR 4 yrs of PR experience

• Experience in a full-cycle sales role including lead generation pipeline management and closing opportunities

• Experience carrying a quota and exceeding goals or related experience

• Self-motivated and driven by results

• Invested in personal development opportunities to drive your growth as a sales professional and industry expert

• Natural relationship builder who is personable patient and dependable—you enjoy working with prospects and they enjoy working with you

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal – you are comfortable leveraging email phone text and social media to engage with prospective customers as well as confident when presenting to large teams and groups

• Dedicated to understanding the challenges our customers are facing and identifying solutions that Muck Rack can provide

• Familiar with the tools we use including Google Drive Salesforce Slack LinkedIn Sales Navigator Gong.io CPQ system and Guru willing to invest time in learning our tech stack to enable your own productivity and resourcefulness

Interview Overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team

• A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager

• Skills Assessment (2 hours max)

• Peer interviews with several team members

• Final call(s) with executive team member(s)

Salary

In the US the base salary for this role is $80000 with on target earnings of $170000+. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US meaning that we pay based on job function and level not location. For all other countries we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.

Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors including experience level skillset and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.