Enterprise Account Executive - Industry Expansion

Gong
Salt Lake City, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward enterprise sales professionals comfortable with consultative selling and industry-specific strategy, with a focus on financial services, healthcare, and other targeted domains in a collaborative, high-impact environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 4-5 years of enterprise SaaS sales experience and a track record of closing large net-new deals
    — “4-5+ years of relevant sales experience, with at least 1 year of experience selling complex SaaS solutions to enterprise clients”
  • Individuals who have successfully sold into financial services, healthcare, and energy sectors with a multi-threaded approach
    — “specifically having sold net-new into the financial services, healthcare, consulting, manufacturing, and energy industries”
  • Candidates who can build account plans aligned with enterprise strategies and lead complex sales cycles
    — “Develop tailored account plans for your target accounts that align with Gong's overall strategy”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a significant focus on outbound prospecting and self-sourced opportunities
    — “driving the majority of new opportunities through self-sourced, net-new activities”
  • This is a specialized role targeting only net-new customers in specific industries
    — “acquiring net-new customers within the financial services, healthcare, consulting, manufacturing, and energy industries”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience with consultative selling and aligning with enterprise-level strategies
    — “positioning yourself as a trusted, consultative advisor”
  • Highlight your ability to simplify complex concepts and engage senior executives effectively
    — “Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts”
  • Emphasize your success in using value-based methodologies like MEDDPICC for enterprise sales
    — “Proven experience utilizing MEDDPICC or a similarly effective value-based selling methodology”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Drive new business growth within a greenfield territory
  • Manage prospects from lead generation to closing
Typical background
4-5+ years of relevant sales experience

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesAccount ManagementConsultative SellingComplex Sales CyclesEnterprise Sales

Preferred

Gong.io

Stack & domain

SalesComplex Saas SolutionsEnterprise ClientsMeddpiccGong.ioCreative ProspectingStrategic ThinkingConsultative AdvisorTailored Account PlansValue PropositionOutbound ProspectingSales StrategiesSales EnablementCommunicationComplex Customer NeedsFinancial ServicesHealthcareConsultingManufacturingEnergy

About the role

Original posting from Gong via Greenhouse

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io.

At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career.

As an Enterprise Account Executive specific for the Industry Expansion vertical, you'll play a key role in acquiring net-new customers within the financial services, healthcare, consulting, manufacturing, and energy industries. Being a champion of the entire sales process from start to finish, you will use your creative prospecting skills to strategically hunt and close new business. This team will be focused exclusively on selling Gong Foundations to net new customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Drive new business growth within a greenfield territory, managing prospects from lead generation to closing, while positioning yourself as a trusted, consultative advisor; build strong relationships with net-new prospects to understand their business goals and objectives

Develop tailored account plans for your target accounts that align with Gong's overall strategy, identifying key decision-makers, regional nuances, buying processes, current investments, and net-new revenue opportunities

Effectively communicate Gong's value proposition to potential customers, generating excitement and enthusiasm about our solutions

Continuously refine and optimize messaging to scale our outbound prospecting efforts, driving the majority of new opportunities through self-sourced, net-new activities

Engage with senior executives to educate them on the evolving Revenue Intelligence industry, establishing Gong as the market leader in this emerging space

Collaborate with SDR, Sales, and Sales Engineering teams to craft account-based sales strategies that drive value across all go-to-market teams

QUALIFICATIONS

4-5+ years of relevant sales experience, with at least 1 year of experience selling complex SaaS solutions to enterprise clients requiring a multi-threaded approach, specifically having sold net-new into the financial services, healthcare, consulting, manufacturing, and energy industries.

Proven track record of exceeding revenue targets of $1M+ net new ARR and consistently closing six-figure net-new deals in complex sales cycles.

Strong business acumen with the ability to think strategically at a high level, while also going deep within accounts to consult on and align with their global strategies

Experience selling to senior leaders such as the C-Suite, CROs, and other key go-to-market stakeholders within enterprise organizations (1,000+ employees)

Hunter mentality with a passion, and demonstrated success, for prospecting and securing new logos across new categories

Proven experience utilizing MEDDPICC or a similarly effective value-based selling methodology to address complex customer needs in enterprise sales

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and present them in an approachable and engaging way

Experience with Gong.io is preferred but not required

Source: Gong careers (Greenhouse)

Similar roles