About the jobThis position is needed to lead relationships with our enterprise Communications platform customers who consume our messaging, voice and email services. You will be directly responsible for protecting and growing Twilio's communications business across your assigned customers. As a Senior Strategic Account Executive, you will drive highly analytical and consultative sales cycles with customers that are running large scale, global, competitively sourced, compliance-heavy, use case-specific businesses. This role is highly cross functional, and your success will depend on building deep partnerships across product management, finance, support, and operations.
ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you'll:
- Manage and expand some of our most important Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences customer accounts.
- Develop, drive, and execute account strategy to consistently deliver strong revenue, gross margin, and gross profit results.
- Partner closely with other Twilio teams to identify new revenue opportunities within your Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences account portfolio.
- Serve on a cross-functional account team with representatives from product, finance, support, and services teams.
- Run a disciplined forecast, consistently achieve goals, and present guidance to executive management.
- Run highly consultative sales cycles with our largest customers with a focus on deep discovery, listening to customer needs and being an effective champion for their point of view in the organization.
- Generate and maintain an accurate sales pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce.
- Establish yourself as a trusted subject matter expert and share industry updates and changes with the GTM sales organization.
Qualifications Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
*Required:- Possess a total of 5 years of sales experience, with a minimum of 3 years dedicated to mid-market, major account or strategic sales.
- Demonstrate expertise in managing or leading quantitative, highly analytical products and solutions for customers.
- Accountable for relationship management, cross sells, upsells and solutions consulting.
- Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships.
- Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value.
- Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define process and build programs.
- Record of delivering revenue and gross profit results, especially for large-scale and enterprise customers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience.
Desired:- Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms.
- Domain expertise from a highly quantitative industry such as DevOps, Fintech, Health & Life Sciences, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments.
- Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experience.
- Experience leading complex opportunities with Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences industry customers.
Location- This role will be remote, but is not eligible to be hired in CT, NJ, NY, WA, Penn. and San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, San Jose, CA, or the surrounding areas
Travel We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, approximately 20% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way.
What We OfferWorking at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.
Compensation*Please note this role is open to candidates outside of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., and Washington State. The information below is provided for candidates hired in those locations only.
The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:
- Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota or Vermont : $103,376.00 - $129,220.00.
- Based in Washington D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay Area): $109,120.00 - $136,400.00.
- Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or the San Francisco Bay area, California: $114,864.00 - $143,580.00.
- This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio's equity plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.
- This role is eligible to earn commissions.
The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
Applications for this role are intended to be accepted until July 01, 2026, but may change based on business needs.