Verkada

Verkada

Enterprise Account Executive (Tennessee)

Nashville, TN United States · Full-time

No sponsorship$220k-$300kDetected 5 days ago
Agentic AISalesAccount ManagementValuationCommunicationCollaborationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • We are seeking a hardworking, driven individual with superb energy, passion and experience driving new business acquisition in the municipalities of 250k+ populace.
  • This person will join a growing Public Sector Field Sales team and will cover Tennessee & Oklahoma region.
  • With Verkada's consistent year over year growth, now is the perfect time to join the sales team.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and Implement a comprehensive territory plan
  • Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics and quota, with a strong emphasis on net new business sales.
  • Devise a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy and partner with Verkada's channel partner sales organization to establish channel partner initiatives that result in a minimum of 5 deal registrations each quarter
  • Drive business growth and enhance market presence through a combination of customer engagements, marketing campaigns, executive briefings, industry conferences, events and market sector knowledge/intelligence
  • Create effective presentations and proposals
  • create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements
  • 5-10+ years of quota-carrying software/hardware technology or channel sales with focus on building a greenfield territory and landing new business
  • Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements
  • Self-motivated, tenacious, confident, with a willingness to engage in prospecting to maintain individual funnels as expected
  • Customer-focused with extensive experience developing customer relationships within SLED accounts.

Requirements

  • Proven track record of success in a sales-driven organization selling a highly complex technical solution (with the awards and references to prove it)
  • Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing major accounts against incumbents
  • The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements and team collaboration
  • You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Nice to have

  • 2+ years selling technical solutions or products to the Public Sector (SLED, Local Government, Municipalities) is a plus
  • Relevant software or hardware industry experience in any of the following domains
  • security software or hardware, computer networking and "how the internet works", subscription, SaaS, or Cloud software is a plus
  • Strong knowledge and execution of MEDDIC is highly preferred
  • BS/BA degree strongly preferred

Compensation

  • Estimated Annual Pay Range

Benefits

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
  • Professional development stipend
  • Wellness/fitness benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Gain an in-depth and detailed understanding of Verkada's business and products to confidently sell to states, cities, counties, education agencies and special districts within your territory
  • This includes relationships with Government Agencies, Higher Education Institutions, Solutions Partners, and Resellers
  • Experience managing longer, complex sales cycles This includes navigating the complexity of multiple buying stakeholders and the nuances of government and education buying

Company info

  • Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
  • We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
  • You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
  • We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more.
  • Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
  • You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world.
  • It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens.
  • The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE.
  • The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes.
  • We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
  • more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more.
  • At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company.
  • This includes prospecting and outreach to new SLED business opportunities providing product demos, product trials, and strategic negotiations with customers and channel partners

Equal opportunity

  • Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
  • As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

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