SMB Account Executive - Multiple languages

Job Description

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Drive top-line revenue growth by acquiring new customers and developing strategies for account expansion.
• Manage and nurture customer relationships ensuring high satisfaction and retention levels.
• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to cross sell additional products and services to existing customers to optimize account revenue and profitability.
• Use data insights, customer intents, and adoption history to effectively prospect new clients and enhance retention strategies.
• Understand and convey the benefits of Zendesk products, aligning them with customers’ business objectives to ensure customer satisfaction and product expansion.
• Lead competitive sales cycles utilizing strong communication skills and value selling to articulate compelling business cases.
• Consistently develop a robust pipeline of qualified opportunities accurately tracking details and sales stages in Salesforce.
• Provide accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts, and exceed quarterly and annual revenue goals.
• Collaborate with internal teams to enhance sales strategies and streamline sales execution.
• Exceed weekly and monthly activity and pipeline KPIs.

What You Bring to the Role:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience required.
• At least 2 years of B2B sales or solution engineering experience, preferably in the SaaS industry with a proven record of exceeding sales targets.
• Experience in managing and expanding customer relationships at various levels.
• Strong presentation, negotiation, and deal closing skills.
• Strong account research, prospecting, and customer outreach skills.
• An entrepreneurial spirit, strong collaboration skills, and a drive for continuous  professional growth.
• Knowledge of industry trends and the ability to build relationships with key decision makers.
• Outstanding organizational and multi-tasking skills with the ability to handle  high volumes of opportunities simultaneously.
• Experience creating and leveraging territory plans.
• Familiarity with key Sales tools such as Salesforce, Outreach, and Clari.

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience
Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love. We advocate for digital first customer experiences—and we stick with it in our workplace. Over 5,000 employees worldwide are collaborating from kitchen tables, home offices, coworking spaces, and Zendesk workspaces to make one team.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to peopleandplaces@zendesk.com with your specific accommodation request.