Enterprise Account Executive, Tableau
Job Summary
The Enterprise Account Executive for Tableau focuses on the Higher Education market, engaging with customers to sell the full analytics platform. This role involves building C-level relationships, identifying use cases, and driving strategic account growth. You will manage complex sales cycles and coordinate cross-functional resources to ensure customer success and revenue goals.
Responsibilities
- Manage complex sales cycles for Tableau analytics platform
- Build and maintain C-level stakeholder relationships
- Develop territory and account-level sales strategies
- Collaborate with cross-functional internal sales resources
- Meet and exceed established sales quotas
Required Skills
- 10+ years enterprise software/tech sales
- Solution selling methodology
- Strong technical and business acumen
- Experience with SaaS or data analytics
- Matrixed team collaboration
Job Details
### Day to Day
- Engage with existing customers and new leads to sell the entire Analytic platform.
- Build positive, trusted relationships with key team members and c-suite decision makers.
- Drive the analytics discussion and identify use cases within accounts.
- Develop opportunities through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting.
- Develop key customer stakeholder relationships and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts.
- Assist with the development and execution of overall long-term strategy for the account, aligned to customer business objectives.
- Coordinate internal resources including product support, customer success, and sales engineering to meet customer business needs.
- Assist with account planning, coordinating with other sales resources to ensure strategic alignment.
- Manage complex sales-cycles and present to C-level executives the value proposition of the Tableau platform.
- Define and complete territory/account sales plans and meet or exceed sales goals through prospecting, qualifying, managing, and closing sales opportunities.
- Develop and manage sales pipeline, prospect, and assess sales, moving a large number of transactions simultaneously.
### Required Experience
- 10+ years of quota-carrying software or technology sales and account management experience; ideally focused on large enterprise accounts.
- Ability to work well within a team of various partners within a matrixed environment (Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Sales Leaders, Executives, etc.).
- Highly driven individual with a focus on execution, strong sense of urgency, and a belief in the Tableau mission.
- A mix of business curiosity combined with a technical ability to truly address customer data challenges and earn trust.
- Solution selling mentality: develop a plan and solution, articulate value, and navigate complexities of customers to drive revenue.
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required.