Account Executive, Hootsuite
New Business, Mid-Market, German Speaking
Social media management tool
Open for applications
Social media management tool
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Hootsuite's mission is to empower organizations to build trust and deepen relationships through the power of social.
Role
Who you are
- Considerable relevant B2B sales experience OR lead generation/business development representative experience (experience in software considered an asset); proven ability to achieve or exceed assigned quotas
- Ability to focus on client business value, return on investment, and customer solutions (not features-focused selling)
- Experience crafting sales plans for your vertical/territory and building/executing on your account/territory plans
- Fluency in German
- Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
- Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance and challenging self and others to deliver results
- Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
- Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish—doesn’t give up
- Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community
- Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better
- Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity
- Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a German speaking Account Executive, New Business (Mid-Market) to help us develop and close new business with mid-market Hootsuite customers within our landmark industries
- You will work in a fast paced sales environment selling Hootsuite solutions to prospective customers
- You will work with our inbound lead generation teams as well as prospect and generate outbound leads, helping our prospective customers choose Hootsuite as their Social Media Management partner
- You will report to the Manager, Sales
- Successfully acquire new mid-market sized business customers within our landmark industries in order to achieve individual quota targets. Respond and action internal leads while also prospecting and generating your own external leads
- Navigate sales cycles from value creation to negotiation and closing, and present the value of our solutions to prospective senior level customers. Forecast and close new business revenue every month
- Proactively seek out insightful market and industry information in order to effectively develop rapport with mid-market customers. Recommend relevant solutions by offering a unique product mix from the range of Hootsuite products to solve clients business challenges. Recommend appropriate third party partner solutions to meet customer needs and build a differentiated pitch for our customers
- Deliver product presentations and demos to potential customers, showcasing a range of solutions that provide maximum benefit to the customer. Complete RFI/ RFP and other supplier technical requirement documents
- Partner with our pre & post sales teams to navigate roadblocks and objections, ensuring customer success and long term value for the customer
- Manage, track and report sales activities and results through Salesforce, Sales Navigator and 6Sense
- Facilitate a warm handoff to the implementation and customer teams following the close of the initial customer sale to ensure a smooth customer transition and onboarding
- Provide day to day peer support with training new team members as they onboard and develop their sales skills
- Perform other related duties as required
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Hootsuite is a leading social media management platform that’s been around since the early days of this now ballooning online sector. With over 18M customers, and used by over four fifths of the Fortune 1000 - including major players like Ikea, bumble, and JC Perrault - this giant is hugely competitive in the space. It’s a rapidly-changing market, however, and staying ahead is tough.
A push for acquisitions (including Sparkcentral and Heydey) comes as the company is broadening its remit to help customer service teams manage inquiries. This is an interesting step into a growing sector: customer service is going through a period of rapid development with the progress of chatbots and a major increase in the amount of digital communications.
Hootsuite's plans for an IPO didn't survive the tough economic conditions of 2022, and like many other tech companies it engaged in several rounds of layoffs across 2022 and into 2023, with over a third of its workforce made redundant. Following a change in leadership the company hopes to get back on course as the economy begins to recover.
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back within 2 weeks
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2014
$60m
SERIES D
Aug 2013
$165m
SERIES B
Total funding: $246.9m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage on mental health-related treatments in North America. Culturally appropriate trauma counselling services
- A company-wide Wellness Week between July 5 to 12 where we can all “unplug” together
- Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym / Wellness Reimbursement ($55 per month)
- Gym Discount
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Maternity Leave
- PTO (Vacation / Personal Days) - 20 days. After your two year anniversary, you get an additional two days each year until you reach thirty days (six weeks) at your sixth anniversary
- Paternity Leave
- Sick Time (for individual employee and family members)
- Bereavement Leave
- Business Travel Insurance
- Company Phones
- Fertility Assistance (Coverage for fertility treatments and gender affirmation surgeries)
- Immigration Assistance
- Phone Bill Reimbursement ($50 per month)
- Remote Work
- 401k
- Employee Discount
- Pet Friendly Workplace
- RRSP Matching
- Volunteer Time Off
Company values
- Step Up - Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles
- One Team - Make Hootsuite a place where we all feel safe, welcomed, valued, and empowered to do our best work together without compromising who we are
- Customer Obsessed - Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed
- Go Fast, Be Agile - Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity
- Play to Win - Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders
- Neighbors and Allies - Give back to our communities and be an ally
Company HQ
South Main, Vancouver, BC
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Leadership
Ryan Holmes
(Board Member)Previously founded interactive agency Invoke Media, served on the Board of Directors for Ariztia, and after stepping back fro Hootsuite went on to found pre-seed fund LOI Venture.
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