Twilio

Strategic Account Executive 4

Twilio$132K — $183K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8 years of sales experience, with at least 3 years in major account or strategic sales.
  • Expertise in managing analytical products and solutions for clients.
  • Skilled in relationship management, cross-selling, and solutions consulting.
  • Able to engage both business and technical leaders to build support.
  • Proficient in developing account strategies using data analysis.
  • Proven track record in managing business forecasts and financial models.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with an ability to define processes and build programs.
  • History of delivering revenue and profit results for large-scale customers.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and expand key customer accounts in Regulated Verticals.
  • Develop and execute strategic account plans for revenue growth.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional Twilio teams to identify new revenue opportunities.
  • Participate in a multi-disciplinary account team across various departments.
  • Maintain disciplined forecasting and achieve performance goals.
  • Conduct consultative sales cycles with major customers, focusing on their needs.
  • Accurately track sales pipeline and forecast using Salesforce.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay.
  • Generous time off.
  • Ample parental and wellness leave.
  • Healthcare coverage.
  • Retirement savings program.
Full Job Description
About the job

This position is needed to lead relationships with our growth and mid-market 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 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.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll:
  • Manage and expand some of our most important Regulated Verticals 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 Regulated Verticals 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, SalesforceStay current with industry changes and collaborate with your team and peers to learn and share best practices.

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 8 years of sales experience, with a minimum of 3 years dedicated to 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, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments.
  • Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experience.

Location

This role will be remote, but is not eligible to be hired in CT, NJ, NY, WA, PA or the surrounding areas of San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, or San Jose, CA

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 Offer

Working 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 : $132,192.00 - $165,240.00.
  • Based in Washington D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay Area): $139,536.00 - $174,420.00.
  • Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or the San Francisco Bay area, California: $146,880.00 - $183,600.00.
  • 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 September 18th 2026, but may change based on business needs.

About Twilio

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that enables developers to build, scale, and operate communications within software applications. The company's platform allows businesses to communicate with their customers via voice, video, messaging, and email. Twilio's products are used by a wide range of companies, from startups to large enterprises, across various industries including healthcare, financial services, and retail. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Twilio
Size
8,199 employees
Market Cap
$8.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$490.9 million
Founded
2008
5 Year Trend
+59.3%
Revenue
$1.7 billion
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