Senior Strategic Account Executive
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Description
- This position is needed to lead complex solution selling across Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform—including Messaging, Voice, Email, Segment CDP, Trust & Identity (Verify, Lookup), and Flex. You will drive revenue growth and build strategic, executive-level partnerships with top enterprise financial services and FinTech organizations
- As a trusted advisor, you will navigate domain-specific use cases like fraud prevention and personalized engagement while collaborating across Product, Compliance, Finance, and Engineering
- Manage a book of Named Accounts within the regulated verticals sector, while being assigned a quota for revenue and expansion targets through upsell and cross-sell
- Own highly analytical and consultative sales cycles to win business in competitive vendor sourcing cycles with Twilio’s messaging (e.g. SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Business Messages, Account Security, etc.), voice and email solutions
- Work with customers across assigned verticals to understand their business and technical requirements, and match them to the capabilities of Twilio’s communications API platform, designing a solution for their specific use cases
- Work with teams in Finance, Legal, Pricing, and Operations to design mutually beneficial contracts to address customer requirements, while balancing the needs of our business
- Be passionate about what you do, think outside the box, and use world-class interpersonal and communication skills to present complex contractual, technical, and financial details to prospects in a way that builds confidence and comfort in the proposed solution
- Balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects and deals at the same time
- Partner cross functionally with sales, services, product, and finance to develop long range territory strategies and sales plans
- Act as the voice of the customer to Twilio’s product and carrier relations teams
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of the CPaaS industry - staying up to date on key industry initiatives and new capabilities - on behalf of your customers and the wider Twilio go-to-market organization
- Generate and maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce
- Stay current with industry changes and collaborate with your team and peers to learn and share best practices
Benefits
- Build and present a Twilio app to earn your Twilio track jacket and receive $30 per month for e-books for continued learning and education
- Work from home opportunities
- Generous annual time off in all countries
- Comprehensive health programs
- Programs to help our employees plan for their retirement needs
- Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves, as well as family medical care leave
- Variety of snacks, drinks, and catered meals in each of our locations
- 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!
- Technical solutions selling experience working with real customers, listening to them, and solving problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experienceExperience managing and growing an enterprise install base, driving cross-product adoption across matrixed organizations, and executing strong QBR strategies to maximize account value
- Record of delivering market driven results, especially to scale and enterprise customers
- Experience directly selling technical SaaS or CPaaS
- Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships
- Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models
- Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value
- Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define process and build programs
- Possess a total of 10 years of full cycle sales experience, with a minimum of 3 years managing or leading quantitative highly analytical products or solutions for their customers
- Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms
- Domain expertise from a highly quantitative industry such as DevOps, Fintech, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments
- Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experience
- Applications for this role are intended to be accepted until November 19th 2026, but may change based on business needs