Due to our rapid growth, we are looking for a driven Sales Executive with a knowledge of marketing technologies, and solid business to business selling experience. This is a mid-to-senior level role responsible for identifying strategic clients through research efforts, relationships, outreach and exceptional territory management. The Sales Executive understands the importance of following a strategic sales process that ultimately results in closing deals with substantial prospects.

• We are looking for hunters with a proven record of closing four or five figure deals.
• Proven ability to manage complex sales cycles selling both horizontally and vertically within mid to larger organizations.
• You follow a strategic sales process that adopts a consultative partnering approach.
• Demonstrated ability to ask for, get, and nail meetings with company executives.
• You have a minimum 3 -5+ years of strategic sales experience in a SaaS environment. You will not be considered without this qualification.
• You must be willing to make cold calls and have proven to develop a robust pipeline.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority, gaining consensus and executing. You should carry yourself like a true “A” level professional.
• Superior written, verbal, and presentation skills, including extensive experience writing proposals and making executive presentations.
• Your sales forecast activity is tightly managed in Salesforce.com.
• Comfortable operating in a fast paced, high growth startup environment.
• Education: We don’t really care if you have a BA, BS, MBA, PhD, or are a Knighted Lord. But you do have to be smart, have an insatiable sense of intellectual curiosity and driven to succeed.
• If you are a Knighted Lord, please indicate number of dragon’s slain in your cover letter.
• Candidates for this role must be located in Chicago.