Account Executive, Strategic - Financial Services/Insurance

Scale is seeking an experienced Strategic Account Executive to lead growth and impact from Scale's products. Scale is an AI infrastructure platform that empowers machine learning developers and organizations to build the world’s most ambitious AI solutions.  As part of the growing GTM, you will oversee strategic accounts in the financial services and insurance verticals, drive pipeline, and close deals within this customer segment.

You will

• You’ll own Scale’s execution for driving impact through customer growth and success. In this highly visible hunter role, you will own, manage, and drive the full sales process from the first contact through closing new sales.
• Have minimum 3 years of experience selling both to a business and technical audience, specifically to Financial Services organizations and Financial Institutions.
• Have demonstrated success by achieving quota on a consistent basis.
• Prove ability to drive the sales process from internal leads to qualifying new prospects and managing deals to closure.
• Capitalize on your passion about what you do and you are able to think outside of the box.
• Forecast opportunities , drive accountability cross functionally, and most importantly CLOSE DEALS!
• Strong sales process skills , you are not afraid of entering details into Salesforce; building dashboards for yourself to manage your team and focusing individuals to capture opportunity data to properly report against.

Ideally you'd have

Impact led business growth : Expertise in selling to large enterprise companies in the Financial Services or Insurance industries and can use and adopt technologies to build a better world. Experience defining requirements and building strategies to effectively scale revenue through early product development, and leading teams focused on impact as well as revenue.

Comfortable in ambiguous environments: You are going to be working on selling products very early in development, iterating on those sales models, and closing marquee customers for our new products.

5+ years of Business Development, Consultant, or Solutions Sales  experience and a track record of personally selling and closing complex solutions to enterprise and software companies.

Technology sales : Expertise in technology sales, distribution, and adoption of complex business models. Scale isn’t a “revenue per seat” sales model. We focus on developer / API focussed technologies, or consumption based technology. Selling to machine learning and data science teams. Having this experience is a plus, but not required. At Scale, customer relationships are dependent on technical performance.

Executive customer engagement : Proven track record of successfully building and expanding customer relationships to new departments and c-suite.

Cross functional and executive influence : Working cross functionally with Executive Leadership, Product, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Operations, and Compliance to ensure customer success. Demonstrated ability to develop strong consultative relationships with external partners and internal cross-functional teams at all levels. Experience with creating, developing, and communicating executive level materials.

Accountability: Quantifying business needs and developing metrics. Proven track record of delivering performance against goals consistently and predictably.

Sales Commission

Additionally, this role is eligible to earn commissions and eligible to participate in Scale's equity plan.

This position is available in a U.S.-based Scale hub office (examples: San Francisco, DC, New York). No matter where you are based, you will experience a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; seeks well-rounded talent to ensure a full perspective on our customers’ experience, understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture that empowers everyone to do their best work and be the best version of themselves.

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