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Account Executive (Mid-market)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience in a consultative sales role for a SaaS business.
  • Proven experience performing in a high-growth sales environment.
  • Extensive consultative selling skills, with skills to navigate complex sales cycles.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end sales process from inbound lead to close.
  • Employ a consultative sales approach to create and deliver demonstrations tailored to customer needs.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with prospects to ensure a positive experience.
  • Help mature the global mid-market business and contribute to overall growth.

Key facts

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Organizational Skills
  • Teamwork
  • Adaptability
  • Dealing With Ambiguity

About the company

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Dovetail

Computer Software / SaaS

Dovetail is the only AI-first customer insights hub, helping thousands of teams build better products. From user feedback and customer interviews to support tickets and sales calls, Dovetail uncovers insights fast—no matter the method.Join the ranks of Atlassian, Amazon, Spotify, Universal, Starbucks, and thousands more as they put their customer first with Dovetail and improve the quality of their thing. Founded by Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, and driven by ambition, the Dovetail team is customer-obsessed and on a mission to help the world improve the quality of every thing. Dovetail has 115+ employees across offices in Sydney and San Francisco.

Company details

IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Dovetail is the Customer Intelligence Platform for the entire organization. We unify fragmented feedback from every touchpoint, including sales calls, support tickets, and research, into a single AI-powered intelligence layer that empowers every team to build, sell, and serve with confidence. Founded in 2017, we are a team of 100+ across our offices in Sydney and San Francisco, working with thousands of teams from Fortune 500 companies to the world’s most innovative startups.

The best never guess. We help teams turn the noise of thousands of customer interactions into the signal required to move faster, prioritize better, and drive revenue.

The opportunity

We’re looking for a Mid-market Account Executive to join Dovetail and own the full sales cycle. You’ll partner with some of the world’s most innovative teams to solve complex problems with a consultative, product-led approach - while helping shape how our Customer Intelligence Platform scales. If you love building deep customer relationships and want to have a real impact in a high-growth SaaS environment, this role is for you!

Please note that we're only able to accept applicants who are based in the following states for this role: California, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, Arizona, New York & Florida.

 

What you will do

  • Manage the end-to-end sales process. You'll own the full sales cycle for our mid-market prospects, from inbound lead to close, through a consultative sales approach. You will help customers navigate complex sales cycles and manage relationships with procurement, IT, and legal to close new business.

  • Employ a consultative sales approach to help our prospects. You'll create and deliver your own consultative demonstrations of Dovetail, tailored to customer needs, for a range of audiences.

  • Become a Dovetail expert. You'll develop an intimate knowledge of how Dovetail works, what Dovetail is capable of, and an understanding of the market so that you can effectively help our prospects.

  • Develop and maintain amazing relationships with your prospects. You foster a desire to help lead and their stakeholders in every interaction throughout the entire sales cycle to ensure a delightful and positive experience. You'll partner with customer success during the sales process to ensure your prospects are set up for success as they adopt Dovetail.

  • Help mature our global mid-market business. You'll work with the Sales team to contribute to the overall growth of our global small to medium-sized business, and pioneer new practices to improve our sales efficiency as we mature our product-led sales strategy.

 

What you will bring

  • Experience in a consultative sales role for a SaaS business.

  • Proven experience performing in a high-growth sales environment. Help us identify you by sharing your results. Ideally, you would have also contributed to an early-stage sales team

  • Extensive consultative selling skills, with skills to navigate complex sales cycles, while delivering a delightful customer experience throughout the process.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the operational skills to develop, report on, simplify, and improve sales processes.

  • Concise communication so you can easily convey your thoughts, opinions, and feelings with customers and teammates.

  • The right attitude towards a sense of urgency, risk, and ambiguity that naturally comes with working at an early-stage start-up.

Benefits

  • Equity for everyone. Along with a competitive base salary, we offer options to keep us focused on driving long-term impact.

  • An environment designed for doing your best work, wherever you are. Our Sydney office is designed to maximize in-person first collaboration, while our US team is supported with a flexible remote set up.

  • Join our community. Find your people in a Doveclub, bond with your team on the regular, celebrate small wins, big milestones and cultural events with the whole company.

  • Learn & Thrive. Quench your thirst for knowledge with our generous L&D allowance or get support to Thrive, not just survive, using our wellness budget.

  • Ample PTO. Time off for the hard work you put in. 4 weeks accrued leave, floating public holidays and additional Kit Kat days throughout the year.

  • Work from anywhere. Up to 4 weeks per year to do your job anywhere in the world.

  • Generous parental leave. We offer up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave to support new parents.

  • 4 weeks at 4 years. 4 years is a long time in tech, and we value loyalty. Take a well-earned break of 4 weeks off on Dovetail.

  • Stellar benefits for those located in the US. Comprehensive health, dental, vision, 401(K) and more offered through Sequoia.

At Dovetail, we’re passionate about building and fostering an environment where every team member feels supported and valued. We celebrate individualism, welcoming everyone to show up as their authentic selves every day. It’s no secret that diversity builds the best teams, large or small, so we highly encourage applications from people who identify as part of an underrepresented group.

Dovetail's stance on AI

At Dovetail, we expect a proactive and thoughtful approach to AI. We look for people who are curious, pragmatic, and eager to integrate AI into their everyday work.

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