Plaid

Account Executive - Named Enterprise - Public Sector

Job Description

Our Sales team at Plaid combines deep product and industry knowledge and is focused on bringing Plaid to an ever-broadening set of businesses. Our thesis is that every company in financial services can benefit from better financial technology and that many industries that don't currently consider themselves to be fintech actually are.


Responsibilities
  • Build executive relationships and identify business value and impact of Plaid across your territory of accounts.
  • Focus on a named account book of business in the Public Sector vertical. Critical elements of the role will be your understanding of the Public Sector landscape, including key partnerships needed in procurement/contracting vehicles, payments, credit and fraud.
  • Go deep and wide in prospect accounts to build support for adopting Plaid within Public Sector accounts, including both payer and provider customers.  
  • Deeply understand Plaid’s business value and technology advantage in the Public Sector Vertical.
  • Win as a team - in partnership with outbound sales development rep, account manager, technical account manager, implementation manager, product organization, and other members of your account pod.

  • Qualifications
  • Significant experience (12+ years of quota-carrying experience) in a new-revenue role and a strong track record of closing enterprise-level deals (5+ years focused on enterprise customers) with large target customers.
  • Ability to sell to a technical solution to a business buyer - develop and sell in the value story at the executive level.
  • Strong prospecting, qualifying, and negotiating skills; consultative sales approach with a product-centric mindset.
  • Experience working with sales development and deploying a territory or vertical focused revenue strategy.
  • Interest in financial services products and a desire to create strategic relationships that help our customers succeed.
  • Excitement to work in a high-growth environment and to help build processes and tools as needed.