Role Description
Systato is seeking a commercially driven Account Executive to grow WinZip Enterprise and software licensing sales across mid-market and enterprise customers. This U.S.-based role owns the full sales cycle, from identifying target accounts and generating opportunities to negotiating volume licensing agreements, closing business, and expanding customer relationships. It is a hands-on sales position suited to someone who understands how organizations evaluate, purchase, deploy, and renew business software.
Key Responsibilities
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Generate new business:
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Develop opportunities through outbound prospecting, referrals, inbound inquiries, and existing client relationships.
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Build stakeholder relationships:
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Engage CIO, CISO's, IT directors, endpoint and desktop management teams, information security stakeholders, software asset managers, and procurement leaders.
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Understand customer requirements:
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Assess each customer's needs for file compression, encryption, file management, deployment, and licensing.
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Position the value of WinZip Enterprise:
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Present the product in the context of security, encryption, customer workflows, IT administration, and business objectives.
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Identify growth opportunities:
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Uncover potential for departmental purchases, broader deployments, renewals, and account expansion.
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Manage the sales cycle:
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Lead discovery calls, product demonstrations, evaluations, proposals, negotiations, and closing.
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Coordinate with partners:
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Work with WinZip and distribution partners on pricing, deal registration, licensing questions, and technical support.
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Navigate enterprise purchasing:
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Guide opportunities through vendor onboarding, procurement reviews, and other formal purchasing processes.
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Maintain sales records:
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Keep CRM data, opportunity plans, forecasts, and renewal schedules accurate and current.
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Deliver against targets:
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Meet agreed objectives for new business, gross profit, customer acquisition, and account growth.
Qualifications
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3 or more years of successful B2B software sales experience with demonstrated mid-market or enterprise results.
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Experience selling software licensing through a reseller, value-added reseller, distributor, or software publisher.
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Proven ability to generate opportunities independently and close business involving multiple decision makers.
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Confidence in selling to IT and procurement stakeholders.
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Experience preparing volume licensing proposals and negotiating commercial terms.
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Strong discovery, presentation, follow-up, and pipeline management skills.
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Based in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience at a software reseller such as SHI, CDW, Insight, Softchoice, or a comparable business.
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Familiarity with WinZip or related endpoint productivity, file management, encryption, or utility software.
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Experience winning new customers while managing renewals and expanding existing accounts.
What Success Looks Like
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New customer wins and a healthy pipeline of qualified opportunities.
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Gross profit and software revenue delivered against targets.
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Strong conversion of qualified opportunities into closed business.
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Renewal retention and expansion within existing accounts.
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Forecast accuracy and disciplined opportunity management.