Full-Cycle Account Executive, Enterprise - Nooks

What is Nooks?

Nooks is a platform transforming sales reps from manual laborers to scientists. With today's technology, sales reps shouldn't need to manually write hundreds of emails, research hundreds of websites/linkedins, and make hundreds of calls. They should instead focus on the parts of their job that actually require people - talking to customers, being creative, and problem-solving. With a combination of AI tools, automation and real-time collaboration, Nooks can do the rest.

The problem

Sales pipeline is critical for growing companies. Many, especially B2B companies, have teams of sales/business development representatives (SDR/BDRs) or full-cycle account executives whose responsibility is to identify, contact, and qualify new potential customers. There are ~750,000 SDR/BDR's in the US alone (e.g. Airtable, Brex, Databricks and many other tech companies have sizable SDR/BDR teams)

In their day-to-day, SDR/BDRs spend time on 3 main activities:

1. Prospecting & research - identify a list of potential customers using signals like industry, size, fundraising, headcount growth, new hires, job descriptions, etc.
2. Email & LinkedIn messaging - write messages to those contacts to convey the problem and pitch your product. The goal is for them to book a demo
3. Calling - Live phone conversations often have higher conversion than emails because they're more personal, but there's a lot more manual work involved

Most of the sales rep's job can be automated with today's technology: large language models, web scraping, automation, integrations, etc.

The role

We're looking for an early Enterprise Account Executive to help us build out our growing Enterprise sales team. This person will help us execute and refine our sales playbook from lead generation to closing. You shouldn't be afraid to get your hands dirty and prospect yourself (it's what we sell after all!). You'll be involved in closing deals and improving our Enterprise sales strategy.

Responsibilities

• You'll run discovery calls, align key stakeholders and close deals
• Source pipeline to help you hit revenue goals
• Land and expand: build process and funnel for manual top-down reach out, onboarding, activation, and expansion
• Evangelize the product and personally help close the largest deals
• Work collaboratively across teams - including Engineering, Product and Marketing
• Provide full visibility into the sales pipeline at every stage of development

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant sales experience and a track record of exceeding quota (SDR / AE management experience a strong plus) 
• Experience selling to Enterprise orgs
• Possess extensive knowledge of sales principles and practices (Sandler, MEDDPICC, and Challenger experience is a nice to have) 
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.
• Strong problem solving, issue-resolution, and multi-tasking skills, the ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, and a keen attention to detail.
• Strong leadership and team building skills

Bonus if you have

• Been an early AE at another startup
• Sold to sales leaders in the past
• Experience working as a Senior Sales Manager or Account Executive at a fast-paced SaaS company