Adobe is looking for an Account Director who is responsible for achieving sales targets through the sale of Adobe’s Digital Marketing product lines. The Account Director will develop long-term customer relationships and craft strategic account plans while guiding customers to realize the value of Adobe solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Approach the business strategically and set a multi-year north-star vision and strategy grounded in value. Proactively identify and achieve the path to the sales plan
- Be an innovative and resilient problem solver. Able to bring forward and take the lead on solving ambitious and sophisticated problems that allow Adobe to serve our customers better
- Communicate with customers effectively and persuasively to uncover company-viable solutions from their perspective
- Build strong executive relationships across multiple fields (CIO, CTO, CMO, CDO)
- Identify and gain customer alignment on a compelling business issue to be addressed
- Demonstrate industry expertise, thought leadership, a grasp of the macro-economic environment, and be a trusted advisor
- Articulate the Adobe story, unique value proposition, and how Adobe’s solutions align with customers’ vision and solve customers’ business issues (e.g., return on investment of product)
- Lead, collaborate, and orchestrate Adobe's entire Ecosystem and Partners to drive outcomes. Use Adobe's ecosystem to the fullest potential
- Collaborate to drive consensus and action—be the owner and driver of the territory and account strategy, and how the ecosystem will support
- Manage large, sophisticated sales processes internally involving legal, deal desk, product marketing, product support & engineering, and other Adobe customers
- Identify and lead collaboration with external 3rd parties, including tech partners and system integrators
- Meet sales quota and run an efficient business
- Advance and close sales opportunities through the successful execution of the sales strategy and roadmap
- Build strong account plans at the start of the year and lead regular account-planning meetings to keep the team aligned
- Follow a well-adapted approach to maintaining a rolling 4Q pipeline. Keep pipeline current and quickly qualify opportunities. Collaborate with support organizations, including Marketing, Inside Sales, Partners, and channels, to funnel pipeline into your accounts
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 to 7+ years with proven track record selling solutions to Marketing, IT, and brands or lines of business in large enterprise organizations
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment, optimally partnering with other Adobe teams, including Sales, Support, Engineering, Product & Marketing
- Strong understanding of digital experience technologies and SaaS within the CMT space
- Validated Sales Excellence and creative, problem-solving approach