Corporate Account Executive - Montréal, Canada - SailPoint

Description

As the

leader in Identity Security

, SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the modern enterprise. Harnessing the power of AI and machine learning, delivering the central control point for risk management for the enterprise. SailPoint continues to grow globally and expanding our global presence creates opportunities for top sales people to become a part of our awesome culture.

We are a Gartner top right, high growth Identity Security SaaS organization: the only company with a multi-tenant, micro services built SaaS IGA solution and AI and machine learning Identity Security platform.

Organizations don't know what data they have; let alone where it resides and crucially:

who/what has access:
we help them answer those key questions.

Identity security is the central control point for risk management for the enterprise:
the easiest way to implement your digital transformation faster and reduce risk.

Our employees voted us "best places to work" - 10 years in a row.

Using the Challenger sales methodology, quota will be achieved by engaging with approximately 100 target customers.

Our Sales Executives gain a thorough understanding of prospective client's business and the industry in which they compete, the corresponding IT initiatives, identifying needs which the company can help resolve, developing compelling business value proposals for our solutions and ultimately closing business.

They will also develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior level decision makers and other key buyers within the named accounts and partners.

The path to success:

The activities of first few months are critical in setting the right foundations and our most successful hires achieve these things during their first month with the company.

• Embrace the onboarding sessions and go into them with a clear plan of what you need to get from them. These sessions should equip you with sufficient knowledge to achieve the rest of your month one milestones.
• Arrange to meet key members of your leadership team and prepare for those meetings to get the maximum benefit from them.
• Establish internal network & led interlock meetings with virtual teams & key stakeholders including but not limited to Sales Engineers, Inside Sales, Partner Team, Customer Success & Marketing.
• Learn about our products, success stories and what sets us apart from our competitors. You should be comfortable pitching the SailPoint value proposition.
• Map and segment existing customers & new logo opportunities within your territory.
• Sort accounts between A, B, C priority and reset/clean pipeline.
• Set $$ amounts next to all "A" accounts & make introductions with them.
• Passed "1st Mate" enablement badge.
• Work with marketing and our Partner team to show the potential new logo opportunities in your territory.
• Identify potential customers with compliance/governance requirements and/or business drivers requiring an IGA solution.
• You should have developed your territory plan, particularly in regard to strategies to approach "A" accounts presented to & signed off by Management.
• You should have met key partners that are influencers in your "A" accounts.
• Customers from "A" accounts should know who you are.
• Implemented an operating cadence with virtual team (meetings in place with clear purpose)
• Fully used Challenger during the sales cycle exec engagement & alignment, approval process, signatory process, vacation plans, creating tension etc.
• Become a regular user of Sprout Social and develop a good cadence of digital messaging.
• Demonstrated SFDC hygiene with regular, accurate activity and updates.
• Passed "Sailing Master" and "Quarter Master" enablement badges.

By the end of your second quarter, in addition to the attainment and continued development of your Q1 activities, the best performing sales people will:

• Use Salesforce & Challenger to inform accurate forecasting.
• Continue to build a pipeline aiming for 3x quota.
• Met with all of the key decision makers within your target accounts and have developed a detailed account plan for each.
• Presented forecast for selfgenerated opps & expected time to 1st sale.
• Shown progress through sales stages for any inbound opps (from 540)
• Acquired "Captain" enablement badge.

To identify the conclusion of a successful & rewarding first year at SailPoint you will:

• Continued to improve and refine all the activities detailed against the previous quarters.
• Achieve your sales quota.
• Continued to build pipeline aiming for 3x quota.
• Education:

Preferred but not required:
Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in an IT, business or sales related field.

Travel:
Business travel of approximately 50 percent yearly is expected for this position.

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual or