Itential is looking for a FinServ Strategic Account Manger to join our world-class revenue team focused on developing and growing new relationships within existing accounts and pursuing the largest and most complex FinServ target accounts. You will partner with the Business Development team as part of converting intent-based opportunities, prepare and execute sales meetings with your Sales Engineering team, and execute on daily tasks in a highly-effective manner.

About Itential

Itential’s mission is to deliver industry-leading and innovative automation products that empower organizations around the globe to modernize their network infrastructure. At the core of our success is our people, our community of unique individuals, and the culture we embody. We move fast and we innovate in ways no one else can for our customers. By joining Itential, you are a part of a wildly diverse community made up of the brightest minds in the industry. Yet, despite our differences, we all share common values and goals. These values include a commitment to maintaining a healthy and productive work environment, promoting a culture of learning and continual growth, relentless curiosity for solving hard problems, and never letting anyone tell us that a goal is out of reach.

We serve some of the largest enterprise, public sector, and telecommunications companies around the world and we're proud to be named to the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies three years in a row. Learn more about life at Itential by being introduced to “Committee Week” (which embodies our open, collaborative and bring-the-best-ideas approach) here. 

About You

As the ideal FinServ Strategic Account Manager candidate, you have a confident and professional demeanor, you are a strong communicator both written and verbal, and you thrive in the most complex environments. You are growth-minded, you have a deep understanding of what it takes to leverage a strong team around you and maximize your solution’s value across a broad organization. Your immediate goals are to earn your internal team’s trust through self-motivation, learning at a high-pace, and engaging with customers and prospects on all levels.

You want to be challenged while exceeding expectations, always seeking to develop and grow new relationships within existing accounts and pursuing the largest and most complex FinServ target accounts.

You have prior professional software sales experience, but you have a strong interest in network technologies and automation, and you are very excited to play a central role in the scale-up strategy of an enterprise software company.

About the Role

The role of a Strategic Account Manager has evolved rapidly in today’s changing environment, with a much stronger connection between Marketing, RevOps, and Sales all partnering to grow revenue. Itential has fully embraced the concept of a Revenue Team and is seeking candidates with the specific set of skills required to be an effective Strategic Account Manager within the Revenue Team for the largest and most complex Financial Services, Banking, and Insurance companies.

When we engage with new resources within a large or strategic account, our purpose is to educate these individuals on the alternatives in the marketplace, offer insights, earn trust, and guide them toward improved outcomes. When we prospect and expand within accounts, we do it with mutual respect and we help inform why do anything differently, why pick Itential and potentially, why now.

We need you to embrace this changing landscape by working daily with BDRs, Marketing, RevOps, AE peers, SEs, and the VP of FinServ to execute at the point of attack. We have built the foundation for your success; this role requires you to land firmly within the team, focus on learning the problems we solve and the impact to our customers, and take action to be successful!

What You Get to Do in this Role

The FinServ Strategic Account Manager is responsible for exceeding software revenue quota through expanding existing accounts and targeting the largest and most complex FinServ accounts in your territory. You will be expected to engage directly with targeted accounts in your region and will partner with the Business Development team as part of converting intent-based opportunities, preparing and executing sales meetings with your Sales Engineering team, and executing on daily tasks in a highly-effective manner. This includes:

• Define and execute sales plans for a named list of current Itential customers and targeted strategic accounts to exceed software sales goals through prospecting, qualifying, managing, and closing sales opportunities.
• Coordinate resources throughout the sales cycle, including sales engineering, client-partner execs, architects, sales leaders, and customer success to effectively execute Itential’s sales process.
• Participate in team building and company-growth activities, including strategy setting, sales training, marketing efforts, and customer success engagements.
• Create, develop, and maintain executive-level relationships across your accounts that lead to optimal business relationships.
• Perform regular customer/market/product/competitive analyses that enable you to effectively meet account objectives and strategies.
• Negotiate and present account proposals/contracts, gaining internal alignment and approvals within cross-functional partners (finance, legal, RevOps, etc.).
• Lead and execute joint business planning with customers (QBRs) and seasonal planning activities to meet sales objectives.
• Help drive account scorecard improvements, identify adoption/expansion opportunities and secure software renewals.
• Manage and track customer accounts, opportunities, and renewal information in Salesforce.
• Utilize additional tech stack tools at a proficient level: Salesloft, Amazon Quicksight, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, and 6sense.

To Be Successful in this Role you Have

• 5+ years of enterprise software sales experience in the FinServ vertical.
• Current role focused on account expansion, targeted new logo acquisition, and SaaS offerings.
• Track record of delivering revenue and valuable customer relationships that have shaped your success in previous roles.
• An ambitious, goal-oriented, and customer-focused mindset.
• A basic understanding of network technologies, automation, and SaaS offerings.
• Demonstrable communication and presentation skills with strong business acumen.
• Experience in strategic account/business planning, tactical execution, and proven selling strategies within complex account organizations.
• A growth-mindset, consistently working to improve your skills and adapt in a constantly changing environment. 
• Humble confidence with a bias towards action. 
• The ability to differentiate Itential to our customers.