Director, Strategic Accounts

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See yourself at Twilio

Join the team as Twilio’s next Director, Strategic Accounts.

About the job

This position is needed to lead our growing Strategic Accounts team aligned to the Regulated Verticals Healthcare sector. This person will lead, mentor, and scale a high performing team of Strategic Account Executives (6-8 individual contributors) focused on revenue growth and cross selling Twilio’s new products to existing named accounts across North America.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll

• Be customer focused, metrics driven, embrace a consultative sales philosophy, and are passionate about helping your team succeed.

• Our customers are often application owners, software engineering leaders, product managers, entrepreneurs, and line of business owners. You must love talking to all types of customers about building their businesses and helping them drive innovation across many different types of use cases centered around how our customers communicate with their customers.

• Support your team by helping them build and progress pipeline, work across functions to execute complex deals and lead strategic prospect and customer meetings. You will conduct weekly 1:1's with each team member, provide tactical and strategic deal guidance, motivation, and career development.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date CRM data for your team and provide reliable weekly forecast information to upper management.

Qualifications

Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

*Required

• 8+ years of technical solutions selling experience, with 4+ years experience managing a team of account managers or strategic account executives within the Enterprise segment

• A leader who lives the Twilio Magic and has a demonstrated track record of success. You should feel comfortable with selling a platform or SaaS, but if you have experience with Contact Centers, Messaging, Call Tracking and other communication solutions even better.

• Customer focused, metrics driven, embraces a consultative sales philosophy, and is passionate about helping their team succeed.

• Experience building high performing sales teams, managing forecasting, and supporting fiscal planning and revenue