Sr Account Executive

Backbase
Hyderabad, India
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 10+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience in the Financial Services domain and thrive in a collaborative, client-facing advisory role. This role is ideal for those accustomed to quota-carrying responsibilities and working in a fast-growing fintech environment in Hyderabad.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience and a focus on Financial Services.
    — “10+ years of successful sales and closing experience, with focus on building relationships and creating opportunities with new customers.”
  • Professionals who can act as a trusted advisor and influence enterprise-level decision-making.
    — “Establishing a trusted advisor role with banking and financial institution customers.”
  • Individuals who can thrive in a fast-paced, informal, and collaborative scale-up environment.
    — “flexible, no-nonsense, informal and fast-paced working environment.”

Things to consider

  • This role demands a high level of client relationship management and strategic advisory skills.
    — “You build close relationships with your customers to understand their business drivers and understand how to establish buy-in at all levels.”
  • The position requires managing large software agreements with significant revenue targets.
    — “Managing and closing large software agreements ($1M+ ARR).”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in managing enterprise-level sales cycles and closing large deals.
    — “effectively run a sales cycle to reach and exceed your goals.”
  • Emphasize a track record of exceeding quota and providing value-focused digital banking strategies.
    — “Track record of exceeding quota.”
  • Showcase skills in reverse-engineering business objectives and crafting compelling investment cases.
    — “Ability to reverse engineer business objectives to reach your goals.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · LowAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Individual

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What success looks like

  • Achieving sales targets
  • Building customer relationships
Typical background
10+ years of successful sales experience

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesClosing DealsEnterprise Software SalesCustomer Relationship ManagementForecasting

Preferred

Fintech ExperienceDigital Banking Solutions

Stack & domain

SalesClosingEnterprise SaasDigital Banking TransformationCustomer RelationshipsSales ManagementDelivery LeadsSenior/executive ManagementInfluentialStrategicAdvisoryRelationship BuildingProblem-solvingCommunicationLeadershipFintechFinancial ServicesBanking

About the role

Original posting from Backbase via Greenhouse

About the Company

Backbase is a fast-growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world.

Backbase creates the best digital banking solutions on the planet, enabling our clients to deliver superior online and mobile customer experiences. We are a global, young-spirited, diverse (45+ nationalities), fast-growing and leading fintech company. Agile is our middle name and we love pushing innovation in the digital banking world. We make it work. And we’re not done innovating just yet. 

Our 2,000+ employees work together on better and more advanced products. As we are in scaleup phase, we don’t believe in simply “doing our jobs”. We’ve always got room for new, creative talent to push us further. 

What will you bring to make us stronger? We are organized to support you. You will receive time to educate yourself and will work with some of the best specialists in the business. We are work and play. At Backbase, you can come as you are and say it like it is. 

Join us for a journey instead of a job!

About the Role

We are growing our Sales team and offer opportunities for ambitious, strategic Sales Executives who thrive in a client-facing advisory role.

You will carry your own sales quota within the APAC sales team and deliver digital banking transformation opportunities with net-new customers, adding to a growing list of active Backbase customers. 

Based on your quota you will set objectives and plan accordingly to achieve targets. Backbase is expanding and there is no doubt that we have the best solution in our niche market. 

Being a Sr. Sales Executive at Backbase is an exciting and challenging role. This is an ideal position if you have 10+ years of successful sales and closing experience, with focus on building relationships and creating opportunities with new customers. 

Your professional DNA is that of a highly influential advisor with a focus on enterprise SaaS software in Financial Services. 

This position offers you to work in a flexible, no-nonsense, informal and fast-paced working environment, enabling and empowering you to grow as a sales professional. In this position you will report directly to the Regional Vice President of Sales.

You build close relationships with your customers to understand their business drivers and understand how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new enterprise software sales opportunities with Banking and Financial Service customers and effectively run a sales cycle to reach and exceed your goals.

Finally, you build close relationships with your customers to understand their business drivers and understand how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new sales opportunities with Enterprise Banking and Financial Service customers and effectively run a sales cycle to reach and exceed your goals.

Responsibilities

This is a quota carrying role in which you will identify and close opportunities for Backbase business primarily with net-new customer accounts and secondary opportunity to expand existing customer relationships;

Managing and closing large software agreements ($1M+ ARR);

Forecasting and managing net-new opportunities from identification to close;

Leading customers to have value-focused digital banking strategies;

Establishing a trusted advisor role with banking and financial institution customers;

Aggregating and collecting requirements from customers and craft the business case for investments in digital banking transformation;

Supporting Backbase's goal of building digital banking leadership;

Other activities as required to fulfill the business objectives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience;

8-10+ years experience in a quota carrying role;

5+ years experience in digital banking;

Required Skills

Track record of exceeding quota;

Ability to reverse engineer business objectives to reach your goals;

Eagerness to figure out tough problems for your customers.

Source: Backbase careers (Greenhouse)

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