OpenText

Strategic Solution Sales Executive

OpenText$134K — $201K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in enterprise software or information management sales.
  • Proven track record of leading complex sales cycles in large accounts.
  • Ability to engage and influence executive stakeholders and technical decision-makers.
  • Strong understanding of translating technology into business value.
  • Excellent skills in communication, negotiation, and relationship-building.
  • Experience in a cross-functional sales environment.
  • Higher education degree, complemented by a commitment to continuous learning.

Responsibilities

  • Drive growth across assigned strategic accounts by managing a solution portfolio.
  • Collaborate with Client Executives and account teams to create and win opportunities.
  • Identify and develop solution-specific opportunities supporting account strategies.
  • Leverage domain and solution expertise to uncover whitespace opportunities.
  • Lead sales strategy throughout the sales cycle, ensuring strong pipeline discipline.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients and colleagues, offering market insights.
  • Influence multi-solution deals and maintain accurate forecasts.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead strategic growth in major enterprise accounts.
  • Use deep domain knowledge across various solution areas such as cybersecurity and ITOM.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to tackle critical business challenges.
  • Influence solution strategy and contribute to large-scale transformations.
  • Access to innovative technology and professional development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Strategic Solution Sales Executive

(Content / Business Network / Cybersecurity / ITOM / Digital Experience)

Your Impact

As a Strategic Solution Sales Executive, you will be a quota-carrying sales representative responsible for driving growth across your solution portfolio within a defined set of strategic accounts. Partnering closely with Client Executives and account teams, you will create, shape, and win opportunities by demonstrating the business value of OpenText solutions and aligning them to client priorities.

You will identify, qualify, and develop solution-specific opportunities that support broader account strategies and business objectives. By leveraging your industry and solution expertise, you will uncover whitespace opportunities, articulate value, and help clients understand how OpenText can accelerate their transformation initiatives.

Working closely with Client Executives, Solution Consultants, Value Engineers, Professional Services, and partners, you will lead solution strategy throughout the sales cycle. You will guide opportunity qualification, competitive positioning, and deal execution while ensuring strong pipeline discipline and forecast accuracy.

As a trusted advisor, you will serve as a subject matter expert for both clients and internal stakeholders. You will bring market insight, share field intelligence, and influence solution strategy while helping build momentum across complex, multi-solution opportunities.

Success in this role includes:
  • Driving solution-specific pipeline creation and bookings growth.
  • Contributing meaningfully to account expansion and revenue growth.
  • Consistently advancing opportunities through the sales cycle and improving win rates.
  • Maintaining strong pipeline quality and forecast accuracy.
  • Influencing and supporting successful multi-solution deals across strategic accounts.
  • Being recognized as a trusted advisor by clients and internal stakeholders.

What the Role Offers

OpenText is a global leader in Information Management, helping organizations transform the way they manage, secure, and leverage information.

This role offers the opportunity to:
  • Drive strategic growth within some of OpenText's most important enterprise accounts.
  • Leverage deep domain expertise across Content, Business Network, Cybersecurity, ITOM, or Digital Experience solutions.
  • Partner with Client Executives and cross-functional teams to lead complex, high-value solution sales opportunities.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and technical stakeholders while helping organizations solve critical business challenges.
  • Work alongside Solution Consultants, Value Engineers, Professional Services teams, and partners to deliver business outcomes for clients.
  • Influence solution strategy, share market insights, and help shape the success of large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

At OpenText, you will work with innovative technology, world-class sales professionals, and some of the largest organizations in the world. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, flexible work options, and significant opportunities for career growth and development.

What You Need to Succeed
  • Proven success in enterprise software, cloud, SaaS, cybersecurity, or information management sales.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex solution-based sales cycles within large enterprise accounts.
  • Ability to build credibility with executive stakeholders and technical decision-makers.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technology capabilities into business outcomes.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Experience working within a matrixed, cross-functional sales organization.
  • Completed post-secondary education and a passion for continuous learning.


Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we're happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $134K - $201K; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

California Residents: The pay range above is a reasonable estimate of salary based on pay scale, candidate experience, skills, and education. In addition to the comprehensive benefits noted above, the role may be eligible for bonus or commissions.

About OpenText

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims to help customers digitize their operations and optimize their information management processes. The company has made several acquisitions over the years to expand its product offerings and customer base. OpenText has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Learn more about OpenText
Size
14,300 employees
Market Cap
$7.8 billion
Industry
Founded
1991
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+8.8%
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