Commercial Account Executive

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the modern enterprise. Harnessing the power of AI and machine learning, delivering the central control point for risk management for the enterprise.  SailPoint continues to grow globally and expanding our global presence creates opportunities for top salespeople to become a part of our awesome culture. 

We are a Gartner top right, high growth Identity Security SaaS organization: the only company with a multi-tenant, micro services-built SaaS IGA solution and AI and machine learning Identity Security platform.  Organizations don’t know what data they have; let alone where it resides and crucially: who/what has access: we help them answer those key questions. Identity security is the central control point for risk management for the enterprise: the easiest way to implement your digital transformation faster and reduce risk.

Our employees voted us “best places to work” – 10+ years in a row.

Corporate Account Executive

We are seeking a highly motivated Corporate Account Executive (CAE) to sell our IGA Solution Suite to organizations with 500-1500 users.  A SaaS offering, our IGA Solution Suite sits at the heart of an organization’s enterprise security.  The position requires a sales executive who is experienced at creating opportunities within net new logo accounts, generally engaging at C level. The successful candidate will use their previous experience in SaaS, Cyber-sec or IAM/IGA to negotiate and win SaaS contracts by selling directly to end users whilst leveraging the support of our influential channel partners. 

Using the Challenger sales methodology, quota will be achieved by engaging with approximately 100 target customers.  Our Sales Executives gain a thorough understanding of prospective client's business and the industry in which they compete, the corresponding IT initiatives, identifying needs which the company can help resolve, developing compelling business value proposals for our solutions and ultimately closing business. They will also develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior level decision makers and other key buyers within the named accounts and partners.

The path to success:

The activities of first few months are critical in setting the right foundations and our most successful hires achieve these things during their first month with the company.

• Embrace the onboarding sessions and go into them with a clear plan of what you need to get from them.  These sessions should equip you with sufficient knowledge to achieve the rest of your month one milestones. 
• Arrange to meet key members of your leadership team and prepare for those meetings to get the maximum benefit from them. 
• Establish internal network & led interlock meetings with virtual teams & key stakeholders including but not limited to Sales Engineers, Inside Sales, Partner Team, Customer Success & Marketing.
• Learn about our products, success stories and what sets us apart from our competitors.  You should be comfortable pitching the SailPoint value proposition.
• Map and segment existing customers & new logo opportunities within your territory.
• Sort accounts between A, B, C priority and reset/clean pipeline.
• Set $$ amounts next to all “A” accounts & make introductions with them.
• Passed “1st Mate” enablement badge.

Building on those foundations and demonstrating a high level of activity & application you should have achieved these milestones by the end of your first quarter. 

• Work with marketing and our Partner team to show the potential new logo opportunities in your territory.
• Identify potential customers with compliance/governance requirements and/or business drivers requiring an IGA solution.
• You should have developed your territory plan, particularly in regard to strategies to approach “A” accounts - presented to & signed off by Management.
• You should have met key partners that are influencers in your “A” accounts.
• Customers from “A” accounts should know who you are.
• Developed an effective process/formula for client engagement calls, emails, meetings and Account planning. 
• Implemented an operating cadence with virtual team (meetings in place with clear purpose)
• Fully used Challenger during the sales cycle – exec engagement & alignment, approval process, signatory process, vacation plans, creating tension etc.
• Become a regular user of Sprout Social and develop a good cadence of digital messaging.
• Demonstrated SFDC hygiene with regular, accurate activity and updates.
• Passed “Sailing Master” and “Quarter Master” enablement badges.

By the end of your second quarter, in addition to the attainment and continued development of your Q1 activities, the best performing salespeople will:

• Use Salesforce to inform accurate forecasting.
• Continue to build a pipeline aiming for 3x quota.
• Met with all of the key decision makers within your target accounts and have developed a detailed account plan for each.
• Presented forecast for self-generated opps & expected time to 1st sale.
• Shown progress through sales stages for any inbound opps (from 5-40)
• Acquired “Captain” enablement badge.

To identify the conclusion of a successful & rewarding first year at SailPoint you will:

• Continued to improve and refine all the activities detailed against the previous quarters.
• Achieve your sales quota.
• Continued to build pipeline aiming for 3x quota.

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.  

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