Verkada
Enterprise Account Executive (Enterprise Public Sector)
Remote Enterprise CORP role with clear candidate location fit.
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Canada
Role overview
Enterprise Account Executive (Enterprise Public Sector)
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You'll Do
- Develop and implement a comprehensive territory plan
- Dedicate at least 50% of your time to field-based sales activities away from the workplace, including customer meetings, site visits, and relationship-building
- Manage the entire sales process to ensure delivery against key performance metrics and quota, with a strong emphasis on net new business sales. This includes prospecting and lead generation, providing product demos, product trials, and strategic negotiations with customers and channel partners
- Meet or exceed individual targets and contribute to the overall team and company success. Penetrate new, untapped markets with greenfield accounts
- Initiate and manage expansion discussions to drive customer retention
- Devise a comprehensive customer acquisition strategy and partner with Verkada’s channel partner sales organization to drive deal registrations each quarter
- Drive business growth and enhance market presence through a combination of customer engagements, marketing campaigns, executive briefings, industry conferences, events, and public sector market sector knowledge/intelligence
- Gain an in-depth and detailed understanding of Verkada’s business and products to confidently sell to government accounts within the territory
- Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing, and contractual agreements
- Provide account analysis, quarterly business reviews, and accurate revenue forecasts
- This role requires regular travel, estimated to be more than 50% of the time, including both domestic and international destinations as needed. The successful candidate must be comfortable with frequent travel to support business operations, customer and partner engagements, and team collaboration.
What You Bring
- 5–7+ years in B2B software/hardware sales (quota-carrying).
- 2-3+ years of experience building greenfield territories and closing new business within Enterprise Public Sector accounts.
- Familiarity with the Canadian public sector landscape, including Federal, Provincial, and Municipal jurisdictions.
- Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing major accounts against incumbents
- Willingness to have a strong field presence multiple days per week; Must live in the territory & be willing to travel up to 50%
- A demonstrable track record of success managing longer, complex sales cycles and engaging with all levels, from end users to business champions to C-level executives
- Experience collaborating with internal and external channel partner teams to sell through and with channel partners is a plus
- Relevant software or hardware industry experience in any of the following domains: security software, physical security, hardware, or SaaS is a plus
- Strong knowledge and execution of MEDDIC is highly preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Thrive working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a strong sense of urgency
- BS/BA degree strongly preferred
- Must be fluent in French and English
Canada Employee Benefits
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under most plans and 70% for family premiums
- Medical, vision and dental coverage
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, generous time off and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
Additional Information
- You must be independently authorized to work in Canada. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.
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