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Owns net-new B2B SaaS sales from prospecting through contract close. The role requires pipeline generation, consultative discovery, executive and multi-threaded selling, value-case development, negotiation, forecasting, CRM discipline, and coordination with solution engineers, specialists, partners, and leadership. The account executive translates service-operation challenges into Zendesk and AI value propositions, closes complex deals, and ensures a clean transition to post-sale teams.

Lead global Total Rewards strategy including compensation, equity, benefits, compliance and executive pay. Modernize delivery with analytics, automation and AI, present to executives/Board, mentor a Total Rewards team, and scale programs and governance across jurisdictions.

Partners with the Chief People Officer and People Leadership Team to execute strategic priorities, manage the People portfolio, oversee planning and budgets, prepare executive and Board materials, facilitate leadership offsites, coordinate engagement events, and lead confidential strategic initiatives.

Leads Zendesk’s global AI Services Consulting organization, establishing strategy, operating models, service portfolios, governance, delivery standards, capacity planning, and commercial performance mechanisms. Builds leadership capability and scalable consulting operations while partnering with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Finance, and executive customers. Drives measurable AI adoption, customer value, retention, expansion, delivery quality, and margin through repeatable enterprise services and cross-functional alignment.

Lead Zendesk’s global customer support organization and transform it into an AI-powered, commercially driven customer experience operation. Oversee AI resolution, technical support, Premier support, knowledge operations, escalations, and a 300+ person global team. Own support performance, P&L, premium support revenue, AI governance, workforce transformation, customer intelligence, and cross-functional alignment with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Renewals, and Finance. The role is hybrid and requires approximately 20–25% travel.

Lead the design, development, scaling, and operation of enterprise data platforms, services, and pipelines. Own mission-critical systems, deliver complex multi-team projects, build analytics solutions, and improve data delivery processes. Partner with architects, engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to create reliable, observable, secure, and governed platforms. Provide technical leadership, evaluate technologies, establish engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and guide technical decisions across teams.

Build production-ready proof-of-concepts, customized demonstrations, API integrations, technical sandboxes, and automation tools for enterprise customers. Lead technical validations, architecture reviews, and developer discussions while partnering with account teams. Apply JavaScript, Python, Node.js, REST/SOAP APIs, cloud infrastructure, LLMs, prompt engineering, and autonomous agent frameworks to solve customer problems and support Zendesk’s AI platform.

The role involves building and improving backend systems for real-time voice AI conversations, developing integrations, and enhancing platform performance and reliability.

Own the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Salesforce and sales systems. Integrate AI features, redefine sales workflows, lead a Product/Architecture/Tech triad, align stakeholders, prioritize backlog, and define KPIs for adoption and business impact.

Drive enterprise revenue by acquiring new customers and expanding existing accounts. Manage complex, multi-month sales cycles with C-level stakeholders, create territory plans, leverage data and sales tools, negotiate and close high-value deals, and collaborate across teams to meet quarterly and annual quotas.