Account Executive - Enterprise & Strategic Accounts

AI overview

Drive new opportunity creation and deal development across enterprise and strategic accounts while collaborating closely with a Sales Director and engaging with C-level stakeholders.

Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year base salary (which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, geographic location, business needs, and market demand).

Who We Are

Persado is an innovative Marketing AI platform that integrates high-performance creative generation with automated review of compliance risks. Used by 8 out of the top 10 US banks today, the Persado platform orchestrates collaboration between marketing and compliance teams as they generate content that balances performance and compliance risk.

Persado is at the forefront of empowering marketing teams in highly regulated industries—such as banking, insurance, and telecommunications -- to create and optimize content with speed, compliance, and confidence. Our platform enables enterprise copywriters and marketers to generate and deliver personalized timely, compliant content across channels with unparalleled efficiency, automation, and measurable business impact. As an employer, Persado is committed to creating a place where everyone’s unique perspective is valued. We understand that our team members and our inclusive culture are what make Persado special. Persado is proud to be named on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2020 and Built In’s Best Places To Work in 2021, 2022 & 2024.

Requirements

What We Are Looking For

We are hiring an Account Executive to drive new opportunity creation and early-stage deal development across enterprise and strategic accounts.

You will work in close partnership with a Sales Director who leads late-stage execution and deal closure.

This role is ideal for AEs who excel at prospecting, executive engagement, and consultative discovery — and who enjoy building high-quality pipeline in sophisticated buying environments.

What You Will Work On

  • Prospect, identify, and qualify new enterprise and strategic opportunities aligned with Persado’s ICP.
  • Initiate and lead discovery conversations with senior marketing, digital, business line, and executive stakeholders.
  • Develop a strong point of view on prospect priorities and shape opportunities around measurable business outcomes.
  • Build relationships across multiple stakeholders and functions within target accounts.
  • Partner closely with Sales Directors to transition qualified opportunities and support deal progression.

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS sales or business development roles.
  • Strong track record of generating qualified pipeline in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
  • Experience engaging Director-, VP-, and C-level stakeholders in discovery-led conversations.
  • Familiarity selling into one or more of the following industries:
    • Banking, credit unions, and financial services (US and Europe)
    • Telecom, wireless, or subscription-based consumer businesses
    • Airlines, travel, loyalty, or membership-based models
    • Retail or large B2C brands with sophisticated CRM programs
  • Consultative mindset with strong business acumen.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building opportunities from scratch.
  • Resilient, curious, and commercially driven.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

What We Offer

Achieve your life goals and work goals at Persado:

  • Persado’s hybrid working model empowers both remote and in-office work equitably
  • Competitive and equitable compensation
  • Generous benefits packages globally
  • 401k matching (USA); Pension Scheme (Certain EU locations) to prepare for your future
  • We encourage professional growth through our dedicated enablement and training teams, as well as on demand tools and resources
  • Employee Enrichment Fund to pursue a passion or upgrade your home office
  • Structured onboarding program to ensure a confident start and long-term success for new hires
  • Strong emphasis on career development and mobility, continuous feedback loops and performance management
  • Flexible time off to support work-life harmony (including Summer Fridays and a one week Winter Holiday Break)
  • #PersadoCares: 2 paid Volunteer days per year and charitable donation matching
  • Robust Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives; culture month celebrations, commitment to bias-free recruitment, community ERGs, and more

Valuing diversity at Persado means recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Persado is committed to diversity with respect to all aspects of employment. All decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, employee training and development, and all other terms and conditions of employment, will be made without regard to race, religious beliefs, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical and mental disability, age, ancestry or place of origin.

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Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Education Stipend: Employee Enrichment Fund to pursue a passion or upgrade your home office
  • Flexible Work Hours: Persado’s hybrid working model empowers both remote and in-office work equitably
  • Career development support: Strong emphasis on career development and mobility, continuous feedback loops and performance management
  • Paid Parental Leave: #PersadoCares: 2 paid Volunteer days per year and charitable donation matching
  • Paid Time Off: Flexible time off to support work-life harmony (including Summer Fridays and a one week Winter Holiday Break)

Persado is reinventing digital marketing creative by applying mathematical certainty to the words we use in marketing communications. Words, after all, are the foundational DNA of marketing. By unlocking the power of words, companies win every digital marketing moment, experiencing dramatic new brand engagement and revenue performance across every channel.In an era where marketing budgets have hit the wall and digital marketing creative is underperforming, Persado is empowering companies to break out of this “confidence crisis” by shifting digital creative from subjective “guesswork” to science. The Persado Message Generation Machine keeps companies from falling behind by using mathematical certainty to inform their brands and instill confidence they are making every word count, across each customer journey, and every channel.Forward-thinking CMOs and marketing executives [from companies like Citi, Dell, Gap, Google, Vodafone] rely on Persado to continuously outperform by using words as a new source of value and differentiation, driving up to a 30 X ROI across all of digital marketing and multiplying the impact of existing investments.

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