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Mattermost

Account Executive - Nordics (Remote)

Job Summary

The Account Executive role involves developing and closing business within target accounts, focusing on mid-market and enterprise sectors. Candidates should have significant experience in enterprise sales, particularly selling technical products and managing complex sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders. The position requires prospecting, engaging with open source users, and executing solution and value-based selling strategies. It emphasizes quota attainment, forecasting, and collaborative account management to drive revenue growth.

Required Skills

Business Development
Customer Relationship Management
Sales
Forecasting
Account Management
Pre-sales Support
Solution Selling
Enterprise Sales
Territory Planning
Technical Product Sales

Job Description

Mattermost provides secure, workflow-centric collaboration for technical and operational teams that need to meet nation-state-level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense, and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S. Department of Defense and governmental agencies around the world.


Our self-hosted and cloud offerings provide integrated workflow automation, AI-acceleration, ChatOps with team messaging, audio calling and screen share on an open core platform vetted and deployed by the world’s most secure and mission critical organizations.


We co-build the future of collaboration with over 4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000 code improvements towards our shared product vision, which is translated into 20 languages.

To learn more, visitwww.mattermost.com


The Account Executive is a senior sales position responsible for developing, managing and closing business within target accounts in our Mid Market & Enterprise focused sales organization. Note: This position requires regular travel.



Responsibilities
  • Prospecting and developing opportunities in target markets and accounts.
  • Refining go-to-market strategy for the relevant markets and organizations in your territory.
  • Engaging new and existing open source users of Mattermost to provide value around how users can be more successful with our technology platform and tools.
  • Managing complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple engagement points in DevOps, IT, InfoSec and other lines of business.
  • Executing solution and value selling to existing customer base and new prospects.
  • Articulating and evangelizing the vision and positioning of both Mattermost and our products, and securing strategic commercial commitments.
  • Building a pipeline of revenue and new logos for your target accounts.
  • Accurately forecasting business on a quarterly cadence.
  • Communicating with management and sales operations to ensure proper execution of documents and correct process, as well as following instructions or recommendations set by these teams and company management.
  • Ensuring the successful rollout and adoption of Mattermost products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales engineering and support resources.
  • Collaborating closely with sales leadership and fluently sharing key deal information to align extended sales engineering, pre-sales, product support teams and executive support. Become an expert in Mattermost, and in enterprise messaging & collaboration software


Requirements
  • Significant enterprise sales and customer facing experience.
  • Experience selling a technical productWork under minimal supervision on complex projects.
  • Track record in developing and closing large, complex deals 4+ years successful quota attainment Very motivated and goal-oriented.
  • Dynamic experience in an emerging company environment.
  • Creation and execution of territory strategy and business plans.
  • Attentive to forecasting and business reporting responsibilities.



Mattermost is an EEO Employer. We are a remote-first, open source company.


We are constantly working towards adding more countries/regions to this list, but first we need to make sure we are compliant with local laws and regulations, which takes time.


Mattermost is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people from all walks of life. We don't discriminate against staff or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

Interested in this job?

Application deadline: Open until filled

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Mattermost

Mattermost ensures adaptable, focused, resilient collaboration– keeping your teams connected when the mission is on the line.

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Date PostedDecember 5th, 2024
Job TypeFull Time
LocationRemote - Stockholm
SalaryCompetitive rates
Exciting remote opportunity (requires residency in Sweden) for a Account Executive - Nordics (Remote) at Mattermost. Offering competitive salary (full time). Explore more remote jobs on FlexHired!

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