Strategic Account Executive

About The Opportunity

As a Strategic Account Executive for the North American region, you’ll drive Contentful’s growth by spearheading the end-to-end sales process from prospecting to closing in a set of strategic prospects and customers with growth potential. You’ll be instrumental in driving net new revenue and uncovering upsell opportunities with existing and new Customers. You’ll drive Customer enablement initiatives and follow a consultative sales process by speaking the language of both professional technologists and business leaders.

Working in partnership with a dedicated strategic team of Customer Experience, BDR, Solution Engineering alongside Partnerships and Marketing teams, you’ll foster and grow a North American Customer base with global presence that exemplifies strategic importance.

• Build strategic account plans for complex, multinational organizations, and execute against that plan with a dedicated team.
• Seek to identify the digital experience problems of prospects and customers while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those difficulties to ensure a value based selling approach.
• Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline, overseeing internal and client processes, maintaining sales reports, developing market and competitor knowledge, delivering presentations to Customers, and creating sales proposals.
• Collaborate with a dedicated BDR to prospect and develop new business opportunities across a strategic account list. Conduct research, identify key players, and execute with a value story.
• Collaborate with a dedicated Solution Engineer to inspire and uncover opportunities and pave the way for solid expansion. Securing the tech win.
• Collaborate with dedicated Customer Success professionals, to deeply understand and align on the customers goals, execute against them and map out a growth path.
• Align with critical SI and Tech partners to drive the Contentful value story alongside theirs.
• Work with the wider GTM team, including field and partner marketing
• Position, negotiate, and close both new and expansion opportunities.
• Oversee RFI/RFQ requests.
• Refine and evolve our strategic sales model
• Develop proposals, position complex pricing structures and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements efficiently.
• 30% Travel expected
• No in-office requirements

• 7-10+ years of experience selling enterprise SaaS or PaaS platforms, with expertise in Martech, CMS, personalization, or digital experience technologies.
• 3+ years of experience selling across North America.
• Proven experience in expanding large multinational accounts.
• Working knowledge of selling and positioning to customers a technical SaaS and/or PaaS platform, and orchestrating an internal team to win.
• Demonstrated experience using the MEDPICC (or equivalent) sales qualification framework to structure, manage, and close large, complex enterprise deals.
• Advanced skills in value-based selling and consultative sales methodologies, with the ability to articulate and deliver measurable customer outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of digital marketing technology, including headless CMS, content personalization, customer data integration, and cross-channel content delivery.
• Expertise working within a partner ecosystem and leveraging partnerships to land, expand, and drive customer value.
• Strong communication, proposal development, and presentation skills, with an ability to engage and influence both technical and business decision-makers.
• Prior experience in CMS sales is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of how to sell transactions of $300K+ to organizations with $5b+ in revenue and frequent engagement with VP and C-level executives.

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