Commercial Digital Cloud Account Executive - Retail, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing

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Job Category
Sales
Job Details
About Salesforce
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Applications for this position will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
The Experience
As a Digital Pace Specialist AE, you'll be a quota-carrying overlay who partners with Core Account Executives to expand our digital footprint within existing customers. You'll own relationships with Marketing, Digital and Ecommerce leaders, while the Core AE owns the broader Sales and Service relationships. You'll drive new opportunities, expansion, whitespace and cross-sell across the Digital portfolio: Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Revenue Cloud and Data 360.
Segment: Commercial (customers with 1,000-4,500 employees)
Industries: Manufacturing, Automotive, or Retail and Consumer Goods
What You'll Actually Be Doing
Develop key customer stakeholder relationships, with a focus on Marketing, Digital and Ecommerce leaders, and drive customer satisfaction at assigned accounts
Develop and drive the overall long-term account strategy, aligned to customer business objectives
Partner closely with the Core AE / Account Director on account strategy and executive engagement
Perform account planning at assigned accounts, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment
Coordinate internal Salesforce resources (Solution Engineers, Customer Success, Partners, Marketing) to meet customer business needs
Share the Salesforce value proposition with existing and new customers, tied to outcomes like personalization, customer data unification, commerce growth and revenue lifecycle efficiency
Drive growth within assigned accounts through new opportunities, expansion, whitespace and cross-sell across the Digital portfolio
Build and manage a healthy pipeline through account mapping, outbound prospecting and joint campaigns with the Core AE
Forecast accurately and maintain clean pipeline hygiene in Salesforce
You're Our Person If...
You have an average of 5+ years of B2B & SaaS full-cycle sales experience
You've proven you can manage existing customer accounts to drive upsell/cross-sell, as well as acquire new logo accounts (or focus exclusively on new logos in a Hunter role)
You have a track record of meeting or exceeding quota, ideally as a specialist or overlay seller
You understand MarTech, Commerce, customer data or the broader Digital ecosystem (e.g., CDP, marketing automation, ecommerce platforms, CPQ/billing, data and analytics)
You've sold to Marketing, Digital and Ecommerce buyers at the director level and above
You can build and deliver compelling presentations and business cases to customers
You can strategize with a large extended team and collaborate in a matrixed selling motion without owning the full account
You have strong discovery, storytelling, negotiation and executive presence
You're a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, who balances hunting with account expansion
Even Better If...
You have experience selling into the Manufacturing, Automotive, or Retail and Consumer Goods industries
You have experience at a MarTech, Commerce, CDP or data platform vendor (e.g., Adobe, Shopify, Braze, Snowflake, Oracle, SAP, Optimizely)
You're familiar with Salesforce products and the Salesforce selling motion
You have experience with a methodology such as MEDDPICC, Command of the Message or Challenger
Why This Role
Sell a high-growth, strategic portfolio into customers who already trust Salesforce
Work alongside Core AEs with established relationships, giving you a warm entry point
Drive meaningful impact as AI, data and digital customer experience become top priorities for every business
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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Skills
Snowflake, Artificial Intelligence, Salesforce, CRM, Customer Success, Negotiation, SAP