SEMrush

Commercial Account Executive, US & Canada (North America Sales Team)

SEMrush$188K — $207K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of sales experience, focusing on mid-market clients
  • Proven ability to manage long sales cycles with multiple stakeholders
  • Strong collaboration skills to work within cross-functional teams
  • Experience in upselling and cross-selling in a SaaS environment
  • Excellent presentation and analytical thinking skills
  • Fundamental understanding of online marketing technology

Responsibilities

  • Drive revenue growth through customer acquisition and renewals
  • Manage sales cycle from prospecting to closing deals
  • Collaborate with various teams to develop and execute account plans
  • Maintain relationships with existing customers to identify growth opportunities
  • Identify and execute upsell/cross-sell strategies using company products
  • Accurately forecast sales and retention achievements
  • Continuously find new opportunities to expand customer base

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Low cost medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
Full Job Description
About the opportunity

The Sales team is at the forefront of empowering businesses to achieve online visibility and digital marketing success. Through our selling approach and world-class enablement programs, we equip our team with the tools, resources, and training. This is how we keep delivering meaningful results for our customers.

Joining the Sales team also means:
  • Fast forward and continuous career growth: the highest rate of promotions within the organization
  • A team spread across 40+ locations around the globe
  • Offline and online bootcamps as part of our onboarding process
  • President's club-an opportunity to celebrate exceptional results and reward top performers in high-class vacation destination
  • Quota attainment has been recognized as higher than market average, according to RepVue
  • Uncapped commissions


About your future tasks

In this role, you will be responsible for:
  • Drive revenue growth by generating new business, upselling and cross-selling, and renewals
  • Manage the sales cycle from prospecting to close. Comfortable with longer and more complex selling cycles with multiple stakeholders
  • Dealing with Legal/Finance/IT requirements
  • Manage and maintain a healthy pipeline of key customers and continuously find new opportunities for our customers and qualified prospects and opportunities
  • Collaborate with Sales Development, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to develop and execute account plans
  • Maintain strong relationships with existing customers, understanding their business needs and providing additional Solutions of the Company to optimize growth
  • KPIs of high-volume calls, minutes, demos, and strategic focus on outreach and follow-up personalized cadences to strengthen customer relationships
  • Identify and close cross-sell/up-sell opportunities using the Company suite of products
  • Deliver a value-based selling experience to our customers based on automation and customer behavior
  • Accurately forecast monthly/quarterly sales and retention achievement to management
  • Contribute feedback to the larger Company organization by utilizing strong analytical thinking, presentation, and problem-solving skills
  • Identify best practices to refine the company's lead generation playbook
  • Travel is recommended but not necessary or required.


About you

  • Proven 3+ years of experience in Commercial sales, SaaS sales, or a similar customer-facing role
  • A results-driven approach with a history of consistently exceeding targets
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills
  • A deep understanding of digital marketing trends and SEO concepts (preferred but not required)
  • A self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and as part of a team coming from outbound based organizations
  • Familiarity with CRM tools and data-driven selling strategies
  • Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced, constantly evolving environment

Alignment with our core values:
  • Trust, because we prefer to speak up and be our true selves;
  • Sense of Ownership, because it's not worth wasting time on something you don't believe in;
  • Constant Changes, because we are always looking to make things better


The annual Total Cash Compensation salary range for this position is $188,200.00 to $207,000.00. Actual pay within this range depends on several factors, including work location and individual qualifications.

Compensation ranges for the same role in other countries may differ based on local market conditions, compensation philosophy, and regulatory requirements.

*International Locations*

Compensation ranges for this role outside of the United States may differ and will be determined based on local market benchmarks, compensation practices, and applicable regulations.

About the perks

  • Strong product-market fit recognized by RepVue
  • High earning potential with clear quota attainment visibility
  • Life insurance
  • Low cost medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
  • Dependent Care Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Health Savings Account
  • Short-term and long-term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Paid parental leave
  • Relief Fund
  • Travel coverage

About SEMrush

SEMrush is a software company that provides search engine optimization (SEO) and online marketing tools for businesses. The company's software platform is designed to help businesses improve their online visibility and increase their website traffic. SEMrush's tools include keyword research, site audit, backlink analysis, and competitor analysis. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Learn more about SEMrush
Size
1,000 employees
Market Cap
$1 billion
Industry
Founded
2008
NASDAQ

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