Strategic Account Executive

Company: Zuora, Inc.
Location: Remote
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

For the last 100 years, companies have operated primarily under a product-centric business model, where the goal was to make, ship, and sell more units. Today, there's a demand to have products and services delivered on a continual, subscription basis; to upgrade and access new innovations and features constantly. This is the end of ownership and it changes everything. Our vision is "The World Subscribed" where one day every company will be a part of the Subscription Economy (a phrase coined by our CEO, Tien Tzuo).

Zuora's leading, cloud-based software solution automates all subscription order-to-revenue operations in real-time for any business. Companies in any industry can launch new businesses, shift products to subscription, implement new pay-as-you-go pricing and packaging models, gain new insights into subscriber behavior, and disrupt market segments to gain competitive advantage.

Our growth story is only just beginning and our Sales team is pivotal in sustaining our rapid growth across the globe. We are looking for a highly collaborative, outcome-oriented Strategic Account Executive with an entrepreneurial spirit to help us take on this huge market opportunity.

As a Strategic Account Executive, you'll focus on large established, fortune 500 companies to embrace digital transformation to be disruptors and avoid being disrupted. You'll enable the most established software, hardware, media, telecom and IOT companies to sustain rapid growth, capture more subscribers and transform their entire business.

This isn't just any software sales role. This will be the most interesting sale you've ever made as you, a trusted business partner take a seat at the decision-making table and pioneer business transformation with our future customers' C-Suite and board members. You will be the CEO aka "ZEO" of your territory and career - owning, driving the strategy and leading the sales cycle with a cross-functional team including our award-winning customer service team. Join us and be challenged and supported as a salesperson to grow as you'll be surrounded by some of the brightest and most visionary people both in and outside of Zuora.

What you'll achieve:

• Complete Zuora's in depth onboarding and sales training to become an expert in Zuora's messaging, products and services and unique sales approach
• Manage the complete and complex sales-cycles often presenting to C-level executives the value of Zuora's full suite of applications
• Develop your own territory plan and a pipeline that will fuel the ongoing growth of your business enabling you to exceed your quarterly and annual sales quota
• Identify and qualify new opportunities leveraging your own creativity, inbound lead flow, personal prospecting efforts, contacts, existing accounts and partners
• Evangelize the Zuora vision and complete value proposition through customer meetings, product demonstrations, in-market events and account specific initiatives
• Work cross functionally with our sales development, marketing, product and customer service teams to deliver outstanding results
• Negotiate pricing and contractual terms as required to close the sale
• Accurately forecast profitable and predictable territory performance and required resources through adherence of our sales process
• Advocate your customers' implementations and maintain customer satisfaction by ensuring timely resolution any customer service related issues

What you'll need to be successful:

• 10+ years of solution sales experience managing complex sales-cycles with demonstrated ownership of territory and account management, preferably within SaaS, accounting/ERP applications, CRM, business intelligence or other software solutions
• Ability to align technology solutions to complex, multi-stakeholder business problems and utilize strategic thinking skills to solve customer problems
• Track record of consistent over-achievement of quotas, revenue goals and the ability to effectively identify and sell to C-level executives
• Passion for building long lasting customer relationships and working cross-functionally within a diverse team to deliver outstanding results
• Technologically adept and business acumen focused with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong computer skills including G-Suite, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Salesforce is a plus
• Ability to work individually and on a collaborative team in a fast paced and continuously evolving environment
• Bachelor's degree (sales training methodologies is a plus)
• Ability to travel when required

About Zuora

Zuora provides the leading cloud-based subscription management platform that functions as a system of record for subscription businesses across all industries. Powering the Subscription Economy, the Zuora platform was architected specifically for dynamic, recurring subscription business models and acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates and orchestrates the entire subscription order-to-cash process, including billing and revenue recognition.

At Zuora, every employee is the CEO of their experience and leading our mission are over 1,200 passionate and innovative ZEOs who value freedom, responsibility and accountability in equal measure because they have the capacity to make shift happen. Our culture isn't an empty branding effort - our ZEOs love working here and it shows in our 4+ rating on Glassdoor. We take it very seriously. We encourage our employees to be curious, creative, and stay focused on our shared mission of enabling our customers to be successful.

Zuora serves more than 1,000 companies around the world, including Box, Komatsu, Rogers, Schneider Electric, Xplornet and Zendesk. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Zuora also operates offices in Atlanta, Boston, Frisco, Denver, San Francisco, London, Paris, Beijing, Sydney, Chennai and Tokyo.

At Zuora, different perspectives, experiences and contributions matter. Everyone counts. Zuora is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.

To learn more visit www.zuora.com

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