Salesforce

Strategic & Business Development Executive

Salesforce$112K — $332K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of successful SaaS or enterprise software sales experience
  • Proven success in exceeding sales quotas
  • Experience selling to eCommerce, digital experience, or AI solutions
  • Ability to navigate complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders
  • Executive presence engaging VP and C-level decision makers
  • Strong collaboration and account planning skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own the Cimulate sales strategy and pipeline
  • Partner with account teams to identify and close new Cimulate opportunities
  • Lead consultative discussions with ecommerce and digital experience leaders
  • Position Cimulate to improve search relevance and shopper engagement
  • Create business cases demonstrating measurable outcomes for clients
  • Coordinate resources throughout the sales cycle
  • Build relationships with digital commerce and merchandising executives
  • Provide market feedback to guide Cimulate's product roadmap

Benefits

  • Supportive resources for work-life balance
  • Access to cutting-edge AI tools for efficiency
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth
  • Involvement in innovative projects within AI-powered commerce
  • Collaboration with world-class teams in Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Full Job Description
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category
Sales

Job Details

About the Role

The future of commerce is intelligent, personalized, and agentic. As part of Salesforce's Digital organization, the Cimulate Specialist helps the world's leading retailers and consumer brands transform digital shopping experiences using AI-native search, product discovery, merchandising, and recommendations.

Cimulate combines advanced generative AI with real-time commerce intelligence to help brands understand shopper intent-not just keywords-delivering more relevant search results, higher conversion rates, increased revenue, and exceptional customer experiences.

As a dedicated Cimulate Specialist AE, you will drive the adoption of Cimulate across your territory while partnering closely with Salesforce Digital Specialist Account Executives, Core Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and our partner ecosystem to deliver measurable business outcomes.

This is a quota-carrying overlay sales role focused exclusively on Cimulate within the Salesforce Commerce portfolio.

Your Impact

As the Cimulate Specialist AE, you will serve as the commercial leader for all Cimulate opportunities within your assigned territory.
  • Own the Cimulate sales strategy and pipeline across your assigned accounts
  • Partner with Digital Specialist Account Executives and Core Account Teams to identify, qualify, and close new Cimulate opportunities
  • Lead consultative discovery conversations with ecommerce, merchandising, digital experience, marketing, and IT leaders to understand their commerce search and product discovery challenges
  • Position Cimulate as a strategic AI platform that improves search relevance, product recommendations, merchandising performance, and shopper engagement
  • Develop compelling business cases tied to measurable outcomes including revenue growth, conversion improvement, average order value, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency
  • Coordinate cross-functional resources including Solution Engineering, Product Management, Customer Success, Professional Services, and Partners throughout the sales cycle
  • Build executive relationships with digital commerce leaders, CMOs, Chief Digital Officers, Heads of Ecommerce, and merchandising executives
  • Maintain accurate pipeline management and forecasting while consistently exceeding quarterly and annual revenue targets
  • Serve as the internal voice of the customer by providing market feedback that shapes the future roadmap of the Cimulate product


Preferred Experience
  • 5+ years of successful SaaS or enterprise software sales experience with a history of exceeding quota
  • Experience selling ecommerce, digital experience, AI, search, merchandising, personalization, or marketing technology solutions
  • Proven ability to navigate complex enterprise sales cycles involving multiple business and technical stakeholders
  • Executive presence with experience engaging VP and C-level decision makers
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technical capabilities to measurable commercial outcomes
  • Experience working in a specialist or overlay sales model alongside account executives and cross-functional sales teams
  • Excellent collaboration, presentation, negotiation, and account planning skills


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience selling into retail, consumer goods, or ecommerce organizations
  • Familiarity with enterprise commerce platforms, search technologies, personalization, recommendation engines, or AI-powered digital experiences
  • Understanding of ecommerce KPIs including conversion rate, average order value, revenue per visitor, search performance, and customer lifetime value
  • Passion for AI and emerging technologies that are transforming digital commerce


Why Join This Team?

This is an opportunity to help define the next generation of AI-powered commerce at Salesforce. You'll represent one of our newest strategic innovations, work alongside world-class Commerce Cloud and Agentforce teams, and help global brands deliver shopping experiences that are more intelligent, personalized, and profitable.

If you're excited about helping customers unlock the full potential of AI in commerce while building the future of digital retail, we'd love to meet you.

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