Senior Sales Account Executive
What You'll Do
- Own the full sales cycle—from prospecting and qualifying new enterprise accounts through proposal, negotiation, and contract execution.
- Build relationships with CTOs, CIOs, Chief Scientists, Heads of Innovation, R&D leaders, procurement teams, and executive decision-makers.
- Lead executive-level discovery conversations to uncover complex business challenges and position innovative technology solutions.
- Manage multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles, typically lasting 3–6 months.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Marketing, and Legal.
- Position the company as a long-term strategic technology partner while identifying expansion opportunities.
- Contribute to territory planning, industry messaging, and competitive positioning.
- Represent the company at industry conferences, customer events, and executive meetings.
- Maintain an accurate sales pipeline and disciplined forecasting process.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience with a proven track record of closing $200K+ ACV enterprise deals.
- Experience selling deep-tech, enterprise SaaS, developer platforms, infrastructure software, AI, HPC, engineering software, or other highly technical solutions is a strong advantage.
- Demonstrated success selling into Fortune 500 organizations.
- Experience selling innovative technologies where educating customers and creating demand was part of the sales process.
- Comfortable engaging engineers, researchers, scientists, and technical executives.
- Experience navigating complex buying committees involving technical champions and executive stakeholders.
- Thrives in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial startup environment.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical degree and/or MBA.
- Experience helping build or scale a new enterprise software category.
- Industry experience in Advanced Manufacturing, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, Aerospace & Defense, or Chemicals & Materials.
- Experience carrying a $2M+ ARR quota with consistent achievement.
- Background selling AI/ML infrastructure, engineering software, EDA, HPC, simulation platforms, or other emerging technologies.
For more info, Please share me your updated CV at shameena@Lsarecruit.co.uk