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Mid-Market Account Executive, New Business

San Francisco, CA
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Motive

Startup
Category
Sales
Experience
0-3 years
Type
Full-Time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$142,000 - $197,000
Job Description
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Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks. Motive serves more than 100,000 customers from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

About the Role:

As a Mid-Market Account Executive, you will be pivotal to the growth of our Mid-Market sales segment, driving new business with companies operating 50-149 trucks across the US and Canada. You will own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing, working as a relentless hunter to identify opportunities, clearly articulate and educate our value proposition, and close key stakeholders. We are looking for driven and experienced sales individuals with a persuasive, natural sales ability and a strong commitment to results. This is an amazing opportunity to join our fastest growing sales segment with the ability to advance into the Upper Mid Market and Enterprise segments as well as sales leadership.

What You'll Do:

  1. Responsible for driving new business logos, while meeting or exceeding monthly revenue quotas
  2. Ability to lead all aspects of the sales cycle including prospecting, sales campaign/meetings, discovery, qualification, negotiation, and close
  3. Maintain a high level of outbound lead generation through cold calling and strategic outreach with consistent ability to hit KPI metrics
  4. Lead discovery calls, demos, and trials to understand the business challenges and goals of potential customers
  5. Work cross functionally and collaboratively with related departments (Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, etc)
  6. Demonstrate a consistent attention to detail in accurate sales forecasting

What We're Looking For:

  1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent SaaS closing experience required
  2. 2+ years of experience in a full cycle sales role, SaaS preferred
  3. Must be located in San Francisco, CA
  4. Proven track record of quota achievement in a new business, outbound sales role
  5. Experience partnering with Sales Engineers, SDRs, and trial experience a plus
  6. Self-starter comfortable with a fast-paced environment, demonstrating a willingness to learn/ramp quickly and be a creative problem solver for the larger Motive team
  7. Strong ownership attitude from prospecting, demonstrations, to negotiations and closing
  8. You embody a growth mindset and seek out opportunities to constantly learn and grow. Extreme curiosity about the product, the industry, and your customer’s businesses.
  9. Do What It Takes mentality - You are proactive and take initiative to drive and cultivate new creative solutions

The compensation range for this role is 142000-197000 OTE + uncapped commissions and equity which may vary based on performance. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits as well as 401k contribution all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements. Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.