Account Executive

We’re looking for an Account Executive, New Business to help us develop and close new business with small to medium sized business customers. You will work in a fast paced sales environment selling Hootsuite solutions to prospective customers. You will work with our inbound lead generation teams as well as prospect and generate outbound leads, helping our prospective customers choose Hootsuite as their Social Media Management partner. This is a hybrid position open to candidates based near Hootsuite's London office. In this role, you will report to the Manager, Mid-Market Sales.

What You’ll Do

• Successfully acquire new small and medium sized business customers in order to achieve individual quota targets.
• Respond and action internal leads while also prospecting and generating your own external leads.
• Provide customer value from the prospecting stage all the way to completion of sale.
• Prepare, organize and structure your sales processes throughout the end to end sales cycle.
• Partner with customers to understand the product fit and recommend and sell Hootsuite solutions that align with their needs and overall goals on social.
• Deliver product presentations and demos to potential customers and prospects, demonstrating Hootsuite’s products and how it can align to their strategic goals.
• Consult with internal stakeholders such as solutions consultants, professional services and customer success as needed throughout the sales cycle; manage, track and report sales activities and results through Salesforce, Sales Navigator and 6Sense.
• Facilitate a warm handoff to the implementation and customer teams following the close of the initial customer sale to ensure a smooth customer transition and onboarding.
• Perform other related duties as required.

What You’ll Need

• Some B2B sales experience OR lead generation/business development representative experience (experience in software considered an asset); proven ability to achieve or exceed assigned quotas.
• Ability to focus on client business value, return on investment, and customer solutions (not features-focused selling).
• Experience crafting sales plans for your vertical/territory and building/executing on your account/territory plans.
• Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding.
• Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance and challenging self and others to deliver results.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs.
• Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up.

Who You Are

• Solution seeker. You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.
• Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

• Step Up: Dare to go beyond the expected to achieve greatness.
• One Team: Make Hootsuite a place we soar together by respecting each other's individuality, building trust, and showing up for the team.
• Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed.
• Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity.
• Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders.
• Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally.

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Seniority Level: Entry level

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Function: Sales and Business Development

Industries: Software Development