Senior Account Executive – SouthWest US

🕒 August 18

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $162k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Account Executive

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Progress

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1981

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 1995-01

Software • Artificial Intelligence • Infrastructure Management

Progress is a software company that offers a wide range of products and services aimed at improving digital experiences, data management, and infrastructure management. The company provides AI-powered applications across its platforms, enabling businesses to develop and manage these applications efficiently. Progress offers solutions such as the Progress Data Platform for data, AI, and analytics projects, and Sitefinity for digital content and experience management. Additionally, Progress provides infrastructure management products to help streamline network and application management, as well as data connectivity tools under the DataDirect brand. The acquisition of ShareFile has expanded Progress's capabilities in secure file transfer and collaboration. With a strong focus on artificial intelligence, Progress works to deliver innovative solutions for its customers and partners across various industries.

📋 Description

• Own and develop a broad geographic Southwest US territory • Conduct account segmentation and whitespace analysis • Prospect for new logos and expand the installed base • Map partners and create self-generated pipeline • Lead end-to-end sales cycles from prospecting and discovery through technical validation, competitive displacement, negotiation, and close • Coordinate RFPs, RFIs, task orders, and contract renewals when applicable • Develop and execute strategic account plans aligned to funding cycles and procurement timelines • Build and maintain multi-threaded relationships with program owners, technical and architecture leaders, procurement and contracting officers, and executive leadership • Link customer mission outcomes to platform capabilities and value realization • Build and maintain qualified pipeline aligned to quarterly and annual bookings targets • Provide accurate CRM forecasting and deal inspection reflecting customer timing and risk factors • Ensure compliance with SLED procurement rules, internal approval frameworks, and pricing guidelines • Build joint territory plans and create pipeline with systems integrators, MSPs, resellers, solution providers, and national and regional channel partners • Conduct co-selling, partner pipeline reviews, account mapping, and executive-to-executive engagement • Coordinate with Sales Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, Legal, Finance, and Sales Operations • Achieve quarterly and annual targets • Maintain pipeline health and forecast accuracy • Drive territory growth through self-generated pipeline, new-logo acquisition, installed-base expansion, and competitive displacement • Build strong, durable executive-level customer relationships

🎯 Requirements

• Proven success in a field-based, quota-carrying B2B technology sales role • Experience independently managing a geographic territory • Experience conducting in-person customer and partner meetings • Ability to operate without foundational field-sales training • Demonstrated success driving six- and seven-figure deals • Excellent executive communication, negotiation, and consultative selling skills • Record of meeting or exceeding a meaningful individual quota • Experience winning net-new logos • Ability to quantify personally generated pipeline • Experience activating VARs and channel partners to source or influence opportunities • Comfort managing a broad account base with transactional through complex six- and seven-figure sales • Experience selling infrastructure software or adjacent technology solutions • Strong partner and channel execution • Ability to create pipeline independently • Experience with SLED, healthcare, higher education, public utilities, or broad commercial territories strongly valued • Experience selling network monitoring and observability, infrastructure and IT operations management, network performance monitoring, network detection and response, application delivery and load balancing, network security, or closely adjacent infrastructure software beneficial • Ability to influence from outside the organization and lead complex internal deal teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Tuition reimbursement program • Critical illness, hospital indemnity, and personal accident insurance • Identity theft protection • Auto and home insurance • Legal insurance • Pet insurance • Commission plan with up to an additional $162,000 at goal • Bonus or uncapped commission opportunities, as applicable • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback • Flexible paid vacation time • Paid day off for birthday • Company holidays • Parental Leave and other leave programs • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Employee well-being resources focused on physical, mental, social, and financial health