Talkdesk · 2 days ago
Enterprise Account Executive, Healthcare & Life Sciences (Mid-Atlantic)
Talkdesk is a cloud contact center leader focused on redefining customer experience. The Enterprise Account Executive will be responsible for new business development within large enterprise accounts in the Healthcare industry, fostering relationships, and managing the end-to-end sales process.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCRMCustomer ServiceSaaS
Responsibilities
Responsible for new business development within large enterprise accounts and closing of opportunities within the Healthcare industry
Foster and expand the company’s relationship with business units, divisions and the overall enterprise customers
Create and cultivate a close relationship with strategic alliances
Understand the customers’ business strategy and direction and manage a long term, sustainable business portfolio
Manage the end to end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Sales Engineers, Professional Services, Executives, Partners etc
Bringing innovative ideas that showcase case Talkdesk’s competitive advantage and disruptive mindset
Meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue/quota through the management and execution of the Talkdesk sales process
Develop a comprehensive sales strategy and a sales plan that ensures consistent achievement of objectives over the short- and long-term for your coverage model
Build lasting, meaningful relationships with other members of management, team, and prospect/customer community
Build and align with the Talkdesk sales Go-to-Market plan to develop and own accountability for region’s market segmentation and targeted accounts
Develop essential internal relationships to provide the support necessary to manage accounts and close deals
Communicate accurate and realistic forecast information to the management team per our process and policy
Communicate market reaction and needs back to headquarters in a productive manner
Take an active role in solving problems, which involve other functional areas, instead of 'dumping problems at the factory door'
Take the lead in prioritizing the needs of customers so that engineering and other functional areas can focus on the right tasks and issues
Qualification
Required
Travel required: 50%+
Previous experience in selling Enterprise software solutions
8+ years of outside/direct sales experience carrying / exceeding quota, preferably SaaS
Experience positioning through strategic value based selling
Experienced in selling SaaS-based solutions, managing complex sales practices and solution-based selling to CXO, senior management and director-level individuals
Analytical, with strong business acumen
Flexible personality, able to adapt to surroundings
Analytical and business deal-making capability, ability to ferret out opportunities, create positive relationships, find the hidden issues during due diligence, and bring the transaction to closure successfully
Demonstrated track record in the planning, development, and implementation of new business activity involving leading-edge technology
Proven ability to grow revenues to a substantial level and scale bookings growth and net-new customers
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Extensive negotiation and contract development experience
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
BA/BS degree
Preferred
CCaaS knowledge is a plus
Benefits
Health Insurance : Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Retirement Benefits : 401(k) plan
Paid Time Off : Talkdesk offers an uncapped paid time off program, subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
Paid Holidays : Talkdesk offers 14 paid holidays each year.
Paid Sick Leave : Employees have uncapped paid time off, subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
Company
Talkdesk
Talkdesk offers an enterprise contact center platform that allows companies to make the customer experience a competitive advantage.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$592.45MKey Investors
Transpose Platform ManagementViking Global InvestorsSalesforce Ventures
2025-09-01Debt Financing· $95M
2021-08-12Series D· $230M
2020-07-23Series C· $143M
Recent News
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