iPipeline

Principal Account Executive

iPipeline$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of enterprise or strategic sales experience.
  • Ability to align internal strategy with customer outcomes.
  • Proficiency in advanced CRM and analytics for strategic insight and forecasting.
  • Strong executive communication skills for influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Expertise in enterprise sales and advanced negotiation capabilities.
  • Proven track record of leading complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership and capability in mentoring others.
  • Strong financial and commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

  • Operate as a senior enterprise seller for high-impact accounts with minimal oversight.
  • Identify and pursue significant enterprise-level opportunities and new market entries.
  • Lead advanced negotiations and build executive-level customer relationships.
  • Drive multi-year sales pursuits with substantial revenue impact.
  • Design complex, customized solutions aligned with customer transformation goals.
  • Provide advanced forecasting and strategic deal insights to senior leadership.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create a unified account strategy.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits package.
  • Opportunities for career growth.
  • Employee stock purchase plan.
  • 401(k) and company-matched retirement packages.
  • Generous time off and flexible work/life balance.
  • Employee wellness program.
  • Awards and recognition program.
Full Job Description
Overview

This is an office-based position.

Responsibilities

Job Summary:

  • The Principal Account Executive operates as a senior enterprise seller responsible for the organization’s most complex high-impact opportunities or accounts. Operating with minimal oversight, this role shapes long-term customer or market strategies, influences internal stakeholders, and drives substantial business outcomes.

Pipeline Development & Opportunity Creation:

  • Strategically identify and pursue enterpriselevel opportunities and new market entries with significant revenue impact.
  • Use AIdriven insights to evaluate enterprise opportunity trends, assess deal and pipeline risk, and inform prioritization of highimpact pursuits and market entry strategies.

Customer Engagement & Relationship Management:

  • Lead advanced negotiations and commercial / financial deal structure. Build and sustain executivelevel customer relationships across enterprise organizations.

Sales Execution & Revenue Accountability:

  • Lead enterprise or multiyear sales pursuits with significant revenue impact.

Solution Design & Value Creation:

  • Architect complex, customized solutions aligned with enterprise customer transformation goals.
  • Understand and articulate how the company solution integrates / complements a wider IT landscape.
  • Use AIenabled analysis to inform the design of complex, enterprise solutions by evaluating customer technology landscapes, transformation priorities, and value realization pathways.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex customer situations.

Pipeline, Data, & Forecasting Management:

  • Provide advanced forecasting and strategic deal insight to senior leadership.
  • Use AIenhanced analytics to stresstest pipeline assumptions and forecast reliability.

CrossFunctional Collaboration & Influence:

  • Collaborate with other Go To Market Team Members to create a "One Account Strategy" for each account.
  • Coordinate product, legal, finance, implementation, and executive stakeholders. Influence roadmaps and priorities through customer insight.
  • Leverage AIbased insights to synthesize customer feedback and market signals for internal teams.

Knowledge Development, Leadership, & Organizational Impact:

  • Act as a subject matter expert and internal advisor on complex sales and customer challenges.
  • Provide strategic input and recommendations to sales and gotomarket strategy through enterprise customer insight, complex deal experience, and market observation.
Qualifications
  • Typically requires 10+ years of enterprise or strategic sales experience.
  • Ability to align internal strategy to customer outcomes.
  • Advanced CRM and analytics proficiency to provide strategic insight, forecasting guidance, and advisory support to leadership.
  • Advanced executive communication skills to influence and align senior stakeholders
  • Enterprise sales expertise and advanced negotiation skills.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
  • Thought leadership and mentoring capability.
  • Strong financial and commercial acumen.
Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, opportunities for career growth, an employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), generous time off and flexible work/life balance, company-matched retirement packages, an employee wellness program, and an awards and recognition program 6 all in a creative, fast-growing, and innovative company.

About iPipeline

Industry
Founded
1995

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at iPipeline

More Enterprise Technology Jobs

Find similar Principal Account Executive jobs: