Account Executive

About the Role SailPoint is seeking an Account Executive to sell its Identity Security Solution. The role requires leading a virtual team of partner resources and driving revenue by engaging customers and partners across the territory. The successful candidate will excel in discovery, articulate SailPoint's value against competitors like Microsoft, Okta, and Saviynt, and deliver a superior customer experience from first contact through closure.

What You'll Do

• Exceed revenue quota goals on a quarterly and yearly basis.
• Effectively address each customer’s and partner’s unique inquiries by providing accurate information and tailored solutions that align with their specific needs and interests.
• Develop business plans, which align to your assigned territory.
• Strategically engage with customers and business partners to maintain a high level of customer service that aligns with SailPoint’s core values.
• Collaborate with marketing to develop and execute marketing plans through/with partners and end users.
• Pursue all leads supplied and ensure internal systems are updated.
• Lead the appropriate technical resources to demonstrate SailPoint's advantages to the customer.
• Follow-up with customers and partner with post-sale team to ensure consistent and ongoing coverage of account, including new sales opportunities.
• Own and oversee all aspects of the sales cycle, including qualifying, presentations, demonstrations, RFP responses, negotiations, and the closing process.
• Foster a deep understanding of the territory, including customers, prospects, partners, influencers, and competitors.
• Understand and communicate all product and technological strategies employed by competitive and complimentary organizations in the SailPoint market space.
• Effectively initiate, navigate, and manage discussions across all levels of a customer’s organization, from business stakeholders to technical decision-makers.
• Utilize all channel management and reporting tools, including accurate forecasting and Salesforce hygiene.
• The path to success: 1-month milestones: Establish plan for existing customers clearly identifying opportunities for uplift over coming years and understanding account potential. Segment account list into your top 20 focused accounts & the Top 3 Big Bet accounts within this list. Meet with old account managers to capture any history. Meet with partners of existing accounts to understand their position and services offered. Work with Marketing Manager on marketing plan. Work with Channel Manager on channel plan. 2-month milestones: Create a stakeholder map for key partners that are influencers in your Top 20 accounts and devise your approach to connect with them. Demonstrate Salesforce hygiene with regular, accurate activity and updates. Met weekly with sales management to keep Salesforce and Clari up to date. 3-month milestones: Complete territory plan and present to Sales Management: Existing account overview and account potential Prioritized accounts with account potential Clean pipeline of potential 2025 opportunities to establish gap to target Marketing and channel engagement plans to close the Gap to target Customer references / case studies planned Pipeline growth plan Meet with all existing customers and identify opportunities to extend the value they are receiving from SailPoint. Lead an operating cadence with virtual team Achieve “1st Mate” enablement badge. 4-month milestones: Create account plans for key accounts. Create opportunity plans for key opportunities. Present forecast for self-generated opportunity & expected time to 1st sale. Develop strategies to approach Top 20 accounts - present to management. Relationship maps in Salesforce are completed - customers from Top 20 accounts know who you are. Showing progress through sales stages for any inbound/inherited opportunities (sales cycle 5-40). Present SailPoint value proposition.