Job Summary
The Account Executive is responsible for driving new business growth, expanding customer relationships, and achieving revenue targets within the Indian market. This role serves as a trusted advisor to prospective and existing customers, helping them understand how Copado's solutions can support their business objectives and digital transformation initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a proactive sales professional who possesses a deep understanding of the Indian enterprise landscape, excels at building high-trust relationships, and has a proven track record of navigating complex local procurement cycles. You will manage opportunities and deliver consultative sales engagements from initial outreach through deal closure and customer expansion.
Key Responsibilities
- Market Expansion: Develop and execute growth strategies to acquire new enterprise customers specifically within the India region, tailoring approaches to local market dynamics.
- Revenue Generation: Achieve and exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue targets.
- Pipeline Management: Build and maintain a strong pipeline through outbound prospecting, inbound leads, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities.
- Consultative Selling: Conduct discovery calls, presentations, and product demonstrations to prospects and customers, mapping Copado solutions to unique business goals and challenges.
- Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong relationships with Indian enterprise CXOs and key decision-makers, becoming a trusted advisor throughout the sales cycle.
- Ecosystem Collaboration: Build strategic partnerships within the Salesforce India ecosystem, including local Salesforce teams, Global System Integrators (GSIs like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant), and ISV partners.
- Internal Advocacy: Act as the voice of the Indian customer by gathering feedback and advocating for regional needs internally.
- Market Intelligence: Analyze Indian market trends, competitor movements, and customer insights to identify new growth opportunities.
- CRM Accuracy: Maintain accurate account, opportunity, pipeline, and forecasting data in Salesforce CRM, providing regular updates to leadership.
Requirements
Experience & Market Knowledge
- 5+ years of experience in technology, software, or SaaS sales, with a strong, proven track record of selling into Indian enterprise accounts.
- Deep understanding of the Indian corporate ecosystem, including navigating complex hierarchy structures, multi-stakeholder decision-making, and local procurement/legal nuances.
- A strong existing network within the Salesforce India ecosystem or the broader Indian enterprise IT landscape is highly preferred.
Skills & Competencies
- Deal Navigation: Proven ability to manage complex, high-value enterprise deals simultaneously in a competitive market.
- Ecosystem Selling: Experience collaborating with Global System Integrators (GSIs) and regional partners to co-sell and drive mutual growth.
- Adaptability: Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth global environments while executing effectively at a local level.
- High EQ: Excellent listening, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with a keen sensitivity to cultural nuances in Indian business practices.
- Technical Aptitude: Passion for technology with the ability to quickly learn new products, tools, and processes. Knowledge of DevOps, software development, or testing solutions is a major plus.
- Tools: Proficiency using Salesforce Sales Cloud or similar CRM platforms.
Qualifications & Experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Business-level English proficiency is required; fluency in regional Indian languages is a strong advantage for local relationship building.