Senior Account Executive
Circle
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Location: Remote
Work Model: Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: 150,000 - 190,000 USD/year (OTE)
Skills: High-Salary senior
Description
About the Role
Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Close $20K-$100K ACV new business deals by managing prospects from trial through contract signature.
- Execute expansion opportunities by managing a book of existing customers after you’ve sold previously.
- Run discovery conversations that uncover customer needs, challenges, and success criteria
- Deliver customized demos that showcase Circle’s value proposition for diverse use cases across creators, brands, and enterprises
- Navigate complex buying processes, engaging multiple stakeholders and decision-makers
- Build compelling business cases and ROI models for executive stakeholders
- Develop mutual evaluation plans and success criteria with prospects
- Stay current on product releases and understand how customers leverage new features
- Contribute your expertise to evolve our sales methodology and playbooks
- Share wins, losses, and learnings openly to help the entire team improve
What You Bring
- 5+ years of closing experience in B2B SaaS or technology sales with $30K-$50K ACV deals
- Proven track record of exceeding quota and ranking as a top performer
- Consultative selling expertise with ability to conduct deep discovery and build value-based business cases
- Proficiency in English at CEFR C2 / ILR Level 5 (spoken, written, reading)
- Strong alignment with Circle’s values
- Relationship building skills – quickly establish rapport and find common ground
- Business Acumen – understand what makes a business run
- Internal locus of control – in control of your outcomes
- Intellectual curiosity – research prospects and ask thoughtful questions
- Technical aptitude – comfortable with SaaS platforms and automation tools
- Exceptional organization and outstanding written communication
What We Have to Offer
- Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
- Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else.
- Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
- Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.
- Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!
- Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
- Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
- Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
- Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world!