About the Role

Verkada is excited to announce our Account Executive Development Program, “Verkademy”! As an Associate Account Executive, you’ll be a part of the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley/SF with a short promotion path into a closing role! Ideal candidates should be passionate, high energy and a self-starter with the ability to adapt in a fast-paced sales organization.

About Verkademy

What You'll Do

Verkada is building a world-class sales organization. Our business requires highly motivated and capable sales professionals. We prioritize drive and demonstrated success in whatever sales role you’ve been in before — we care far less about fancy pedigrees, schools, or a resume with “brand name” companies. We have a fun, positive culture of success, and of course, we pay well.

What You'll Do

• Source and close new business to consistently meet or exceed quarterly sales quotas
• Build an intimate understanding of Verkada products and their place in the industry
• Manage the full sales cycle: Prospect for new customers, host online demos, create proposals, and close deals
• Maintain accurate pipeline management with expert-level forecasting 
• Aggressively exceed goals consisting of outbound phone calls, emails, online demos, and trials every quarter
• Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to customers and channel partners
• Work closely with Channel Partners & Technical Support to ensure smooth launches and fuel future product growth
• Provide market/client feedback to Verkada’s product/engineering team

What You Bring

• At least 2+ years of sales experience in a quota-carrying capacity 
• Highly effective communication skills, with ability to build rapport, nurture relationships, and strong presentation skills
• Thrive in a dynamic, competitive, and fast-paced startup environment
• Bachelors degree preferred but not required 
• Experience in Salesforce is a plus 
• Tenacity, drive to learn, and self-motivated
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is building a world class sales organization and is seeking highly motivated, results-driven Sales professionals to join our Mid-Market Select team. The Mid-Market Select team will play a crucial role in driving new business acquisition for the largest, most strategic segment of Mid-Market.

What You'll Do

• Source and Cultivate Opportunities:
• Proactively identify and pursue new strategic business opportunities within Select Named Accounts.
• Conduct strategic outbound prospecting through phone calls, emails, in-person field events, and online outreach to generate leads.
• Sales Cycle Management:
• Manage the complete sales cycle, from initial contact to close, with a focus on meeting or exceeding quarterly sales quotas.
• Conduct online demos, create compelling proposals, and actively participate in demos & trials / proof of concepts to showcase Verkada's value proposition.
• Create effective presentations and proposals; create urgency to drive deal closure, negotiate pricing and contractual agreements.
• Territory Planning and Forecasting:
• Develop and implement a strategic territory plan to maximize opportunities within the Select segment.
• Maintain accurate pipeline management and contribute to forecasting efforts to ensure goal alignment.
• Customer Engagement and Consultation:
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers within the Select segment, understanding their needs and recommending Verkada solutions.
• Collaborate closely with channel partners to enhance customer relationships and drive successful launches.
• Initiate and manage expansion discussions to drive customer retention. This includes identifying customers’ goals and requirements, including budgetary constraints and key decision makers.

What You Bring

• Minimum of 4-9 years of sales experience, with a track record of success in a quota-carrying capacity.
• Possess a hunter sales mentality with a strong desire to be successful, and have a proven track record of prospecting, closing new logos, and landing accounts against incumbents.
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to build rapport, nurture relationships, and deliver compelling presentations.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, competitive, and fast-paced startup environment.
• Tenacity, drive to learn, and a self-motivated attitude.
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.
• Experience with Salesforce, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo & Outreach is a plus.
• Knowledge and execution of MEDDPICC is preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal teams: Channel, Sales Engineering and Marketing.
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings, presentations, and team collaborations.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend 
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time

Overview

As a member of our Sales Strategy and Operations team, you will have an integral role in driving the insights, operations, and strategy that enables Sales to run better, faster, and smarter. Sales Strategy and Operations is an excellent platform to learn how a business really runs. 

You will be joining the Sales Strategy and Operations team as a high impact contributor, gaining exposure to a wide variety of challenges, processes, and data that makes the engine of this Sales organization hum. As a Division Lead on the team, you will lead cross-functional initiatives from ideation to analytics to recommendations to drive impact across the sales organization.

Responsibilities

• Overall:
• Serve as the strategy and operations partner with our SLC sales leadership
• Our mandate is to make the sales motion run more effectively, efficiently, and ultimately drive higher bookings at sustainable cost
• This requires a mix of analytical skills, nose for value, operational chops, and communication when operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced environment
• What this role entails:
• Strategy & ops partnership with leadership
• Be the strategy and operational partner with sales leaders
• Help the sales leaders to develop their strategies, as well as the tactics that underpin these strategies
• Partner with sales leaders to operationalize the strategy on a daily basis 
• Workflow improvement:  
• Identify pain points in the sales motion and workflows could be improved
• Scope out solutions and implement directly or serve as a product manager with our team's software engineers on automation solutions
• Analytical asset-building
• Develop analytical tools that help the sales team to sell strategically and better-understand their business
• Scope and execute analytical special projects that help us better understand our business and what drives success.  Apply these learnings to drive operational changes in the business
• Be the glue that connects sales reps to the rest of the business
• Understand how the sales team workflows connect with other parts of the business (marketing, product, supply chain, finance, etc.)
• Relay insights from the sales team to other parts of the org, provide the sales perspective to these other stakeholders, and make connections between the sales team and other teams

Requirements

• High-impact self-starter: you take initiative to move projects forward and can operate well with little guidance. You’re excited by the possibility of leading cross-functional workstreams and generating buy-in among senior leadership. 
• Raw smarts: we are looking for people who can look at complex problems and solve them start to finish.
• Strong analytical skills: you nerd out about data, can quickly structure analyses to answer key business questions to drive decision-making, and will also have perspectives on building the right data architecture. Excel skills are a must; SQL / Tableau / Looker experience a plus.
• Process and operational thinking: you can tackle a problem independently and quickly iterate to a solution, and then also document it in a way that's easy to understand for all audiences. Previous Salesforce experience is a plus.
• Communication and stakeholder management: you'll need to be able to connect with sales reps and hardware engineers alike to figure out how we build the right processes and workflows to drive efficiency while also giving us the data to measure how we're doing. Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
• Flexibility and hustle: you manage change and ambiguity well, and have no problems juggling multiple priorities while executing in a fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable pivoting quickly and often.
• 3+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, banking, private equity, corporate strategy, or a startup. Bachelors or masters from a top school preferred.
• Previous Sales, Sales Operations, or Strategy experience is a plus.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.