Strategic Account Manager – Articulate
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Articulate (201-500 Employees, 57% 2 Yr Employee Growth Rate)
28% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 57% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $0 Venture Funding
What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?
Articulate is seeking a Strategic Account Manager to join our amazing team. The Articulate 360 Strategic Account Manager (SAM) is a consummate rainmaker responsible for developing and executing strategies for dramatically expanding seat counts in existing Articulate accounts as well as acquiring new customers.
The SAM will primarily operate in an outbound engagement role, calling on a set of defined prospects (targeted Fortune 500+ accounts) who have not “raised their hands.” Success will be achieved by having productive interactions with these prospects that lead to Articulate revenue and happy customers.
A successful SAM implementation will ensure Articulate continues to grow and achieve our revenue objectives.
What you’ll do:
- Take control of the sales process by understanding prospect pain points, challenging prospect assumptions, creating constructive tension, providing commercial teaching, and closing Articulate 360 sales
- Teach prospects about their industries and offer unique insights that cause prospects to think differently about their business.
- Conduct needs analysis with prospects and provide product demonstrations that solve the needs of the prospect
- Use insights and consultative selling techniques to teach prospects about their industry and offer unique perspectives on their business, linking back to Articulate solutions
- Develop and execute strategies to grow Articulate 360 and Rise.com seat count within large, multinational companies
- Develop and execute strategies for acquiring net-new customers among large, multinational companies
- Build relationships using remote-based communications (phone, video conferences, email)
- Communicate the value proposition of Articulate products, overcoming objections and beating out competitors
- Host customized web demos that showcase Articulate products’ benefits that solve customer problems
- Work with internal Articulate teams to define additional resources needed during the sales cycle
- Share winning sales strategies and tactics with our sales enablement manager to train other team members on rainmaker approaches
- Share objections and roadblocks to executive management that prevents success
- Create and manage an opportunity pipeline in Salesforce
- Be accountable for sales results
- Represent Articulate at e-learning association conferences to promote Articulate solutions
- Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
What you should have:
- 5+ years of exceptional sales success in a rainmaker role
- Challenger-based sales training and experience
- Success selling SaaS products into complex, large, enterprise accounts
- Experience and success with team selling
- Highly adept at navigating complex organizations and building relationships
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work individually and in a team environment
- Knowledge of third-party data sources and sales tactics to identify ideal prospects within accounts
- Comfort in and proven ability in making cold-calls and managing a sales outbound sequence
- Excellent communicator who enjoys prospect interactions
- A can-do, tenacious winner who hates losing
- Very self-motivated and self-directed
- Ability to negotiate nonstandard deals
- Highly competitive, while also ethical and kind
- Thoughtful, trustworthy doer
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
You’re the ideal candidate if:
- Knowledge of the e-learning industry
- Experience with Salesforce.com, Salesloft, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn SalesNavigator