Strategic Account Executive

Strategic Account Executive

• Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise and global accounts through expansion, retention, and net-new business.
• Build trusted executive relationships that position SmartBear as a long-term strategic partner.
• Develop and execute account strategies that maximize customer value, adoption, and revenue growth.

About the Role:

• You'll be responsible for building long-term partnerships with some of SmartBear's largest customers, helping them expand their use of our platform while identifying new opportunities to deliver business value.
• Own a portfolio of named strategic and global accounts.
• Drive new business, cross-sell, upsell, and renewal opportunities.
• Create and execute multi-year account plans aligned to customer business objectives.
• Build executive-level relationships and act as a trusted advisor.
• Lead complex enterprise sales cycles and negotiations.
• Coordinate internal resources including Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Product, and Leadership to drive successful customer outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
• Maintain accurate forecasts, opportunity plans, and executive visibility into account health and growth opportunities.

We are looking for you if you have:

• 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience.
• Success selling complex technology solutions into large enterprise organizations.
• Demonstrated success building relationships with executive stakeholders across technical and business organizations.
• Experience developing and executing strategic account plans across complex enterprise organizations.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices including DevOps, testing, API management, or application security.
• Strong account planning, forecasting, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization—an important distinction for us.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know?

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices across the world.
• We've won major industry (product and company) awards including SD Times, DeveloperWeek's Devies Award, the AI Breakthrough Award, and Built In Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious.

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