Enterprise Account Executive

Job description

Applications for this position will be accepted on an ongoing basis. About the Opportunity Building on the success of our US-based sales team, Contentful is expanding our Enterprise Account Executive team across North America. As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will drive Contentful’s growth by leading the full end-to-end sales cycle—from prospecting to closing—across both new and existing enterprise accounts ($1B+). In this highly consultative role, you’ll drive new revenue, customer enablement initiatives, and act as a trusted advisor to both technical and business stakeholders. This position requires a deep understanding of the Martech/DXP ecosystem, CMS platforms, and content personalization, as well as mastery of value-based selling and MEDPICC-driven enterprise sales processes. Partnering with Business Development, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and Marketing, you’ll nurture relationships and guide enterprises to realize the full value of Contentful, ensuring that business objectives are met and digital experiences are transformed. What To Expect Source, position, negotiate, and close new logo and expansion business ($50K- $1M++ ACV) in North American enterprise accounts, leveraging strong knowledge of Martech, DXP, CMS, and personalization/experience platforms. Focus for this role is financial services companies. Consistently meet or exceed quarterly and annual sales goals by developing robust account strategies, developing pipeline, informed by in-depth understanding of the Martech and DXP landscape. Execute and document the MEDPICC sales methodology throughout the entire sales cycle—ensuring deals are qualified, stakeholder alignment is achieved, and forecast accuracy is maintained. Lead value-based consultative sales engagements, clearly articulating customer ROI and business outcomes to C- Level Executives, and mapping Contentful solutions to digital transformation priorities. Develop and present compelling proposals, tailored business cases, ROIs and commercial constructs that align to customer needs, often including complex, multi-stakeholder deal orchestration. Manage RFI/RFQ processes in concert with internal and client teams, ensuring solution alignment and advancing strategic enterprise opportunities. Refine and evolve our land-and-expand model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams, driving exp…