Sr. Account Executive - Federal Public Sector

Posted 13 Days Ago
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Washington, DC
248K-310K Annually
Senior level
Software
The Role
The Sr. Account Executive will drive sales growth in the Federal Public Sector, engaging with key government executives. Responsibilities include achieving sales targets, managing accounts, and developing plans for growth. The role demands experience selling enterprise software to the U.S. Federal government and requires a strong sales strategy and communication skills.
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Your opportunity

 If you seek to bring new, disruptive ideas to the enterprise software market, it’s now time for your next big challenge!

 We are looking for a Public Sector Account Executive to join our extraordinary Sales team and help us drive the market. Right now, Public Sector organizations across every size and vertical are focused on improving uptime & performance to ensure high mission success, gaining greater scale & efficiency through projects like cloud adoption/migration, and accelerating time to market through speed and agility by embracing DevOps practices. With the massive market opportunity in front of us, there is not a more exciting time to join our team. 

 

What you’ll do

You will have a track record of over-quota achievement and will grow an ambitious pipeline of business as a result of new logo acquisitions, with creativity, and simple hard work. You will navigate through complex Federal organizations and sell to multiple decision-makers.

This role requires US Citizenship. 

  • Achieve growth and hit sales targets.
  • Provide detailed and accurate sales forecasting.
  • Personally engage in key account sales and ongoing customer success.
  • Engage senior government executives in order to close sales opportunities.
  • Developing specific plans to ensure growth both long and short-term.
  • Develop and continue to optimize the sales pipeline and forecast process with a focus on predictability.
  • Define account strategies that allow the team to have the right potential to identify customer prospects and targets.
  • Represent New Relic by driving sales opportunities with company partners.
  • Measure and report results of sales against plan execution. 

This role requires

  • 8+ years field sales experience selling enterprise software or business technology products and services to the U.S. Federal government including the Department of Defense, national security sector, or civilian agencies.
  • US Citizenship and Active Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance (Secret or higher) or similar U.S. government clearance 
  • Technical acumen with the ability to relate it with business value and operational mission needs.
  • Comfort with managing existing enterprise accounts and expanding into new agencies.
  • Experience in consultative, enterprise solutions selling APM and/or Infrastructure related software tools.
  • Outstanding track record of experiences and successes in growing a sales territory and exceeding assigned goals.
  • Ability to forecast, manage sales expenses.
  • Exemplary written and oral communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal, planning, and organizational skills.
  • Demonstrated experience with data management and analysis.
  • Bachelor’s degree

Bonus points if you have

  • Previous experience selling Observability solutions
  • Exposure to a consumption sales motion

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

The pay range below represents a reasonable estimate of the on target earnings (salary plus target sales incentives) for the listed position. This role is eligible for a commission plan (as defined in the sales incentive plan document) and a competitive equity package. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time off, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Estimated On-Target Earnings Range

$248,000$310,000 USD

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process
In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics. 

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,102 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

The world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze and troubleshoot their software. New Relic One is the most powerful cloud-based observability platform built to help companies create more perfect software. Learn why customers trust New Relic for improved uptime and performance, greater scale and efficiency, and accelerated time to market.

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