Sales Executive, Central USA region
Why you? Are you a central-US based Sales Executive who has experience in hunting for new business, developing relationships with C and VP-level executives, and who has a history of selling disruptive products and services? Do you want to represent a leading edge IT consulting company and a respected brand in the data management space? At Pythian, we’re looking for a successful Sales Executive to join our team. You will be responsible for driving growth inside your assigned territory through the execution of sales strategies and partner management of Pythian services, with a focus on growing new accounts.
You will manage a book of business by identifying opportunities with new clients in the region as well as establishing a strong relationship with existing clients. If this is you, and you wonder what would it be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out!
What do we need from you?
- While we understand you might not have everything on the list, to be successful you are likely to have skills such as:
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of experience and education will also be considered.
- 5+ years experience in selling professional or managed IT services in the cloud, application, analytics, data management and data infrastructure space.
- Previous experience in a senior sales role with demonstrated ability to meet or exceed targets in the information technology or professional services sector with an emphasis on hunting for new business coupled with a desire to help clients solve difficult business problems with technology.
- Experience in selling cloud technologies and services (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, SAP, Snowflake) as well as a deep understanding of the growing purpose and role of various public cloud platforms. Cloud certifications are an asset.
- Strong understanding of the vital role of data in the application and analytics space and the various underlying technologies both in the cloud and on prem.
- Ability to manage influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building.
- Ideally combined background of post-sale and sales experience.
- Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue business models.
- Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement.
- Enthusiastic and creative leader with the ability to inspire others.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Proficient in the use of Salesforce, and its importance.
What do you get in return?
- Love your career: Highly competitive OTE and total rewards package. Quotas lower than industry average.
- Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home (forever), there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! You can be located anywhere in the Missouri region, all you need is a stable internet connection.
- Love your coworkers: Large pre-sales, subject matter experts, and operations teams to help you in the sales cycle and beyond. Chance to work with some of the brightest data engineers in the industry!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
- Love your yourself: Pythian cares about the health and wellbeing of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
Why PythianPythian excels at helping businesses use their data and cloud to transform how they compete and win in this ever-changing environment by delivering advanced on-prem, hybrid, cloud and multi-cloud solutions to solve the toughest data challenges faster and better than anyone else. Founded and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada in 1997, Pythian now has more than 300 employees located around the globe with over 350 clients spanning industries from SaaS; media; gaming; financial services; e-commerce and more.
Pythian is known for its technology-enabled data expertise covering everything from ETL to ML. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver innovative solutions that meet the specific data goals of each client and have built meaningful partnerships with major cloud vendors AWS, Google and Microsoft. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.
DisclaimerFor this job an equivalent combination of education and experience, which results in demonstrated ability to apply skills will also be considered.The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.Apply for this job
