[Hiring] Growth Enterprise Account Executive @Coursera Sourcing

Role Description

Account Executives on the Growth Enterprise team will prospect, consult, and sell to companies with 1,250 - 5,999 employees, across all industries, within a specified geographic territory. In this role, you will learn to take full ownership over a territory, develop sales plans and strategies, and become accustomed to identifying all types of opportunities and converting them into tangible, long term pipeline and revenue.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of closing experience to department leaders and C-suite at mid-size businesses (in the 1000+ employee range)
• B2B SaaS sales experience
• Enterprise-style go-to-market playbook that includes value-based selling and leveraging Value Engineers/Solution Engineers in pre-sales
• Experience partnering with other Account Executives in an overlay specialist sales model
• Proven prospecting and territory management experience
• Experience using modern AI tools to improve complex enterprise deal execution, including generative AI and sales technology for account research and stakeholder mapping
• Proficiency in creating tailored messaging using effective prompts and interpreting AI-driven insights to understand business priorities, risks, and opportunities
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI insights to shape deal strategy, build executive narratives, and deliver compelling, outcome-focused pitches to senior decision-makers
• Strong writing, strategic thinking, and planning skills
• Ability to adapt, learn and operate with a growth mindset

Requirements

• Managing full sales cycle from discovery to negotiation, selling both transactional and multi-year 6 figure deals
• Building pipeline with both prospects and customers by setting meetings with HR/L&D, Executives and by multithreading into other Lines of Business department leaders
• Land & Expand your client base by understanding current use case and identifying areas for expansion, through both individual efforts and partnering with Customer Success counterparts, resulting in mid-term and renewal up-sells
• Develop new sales tactics and outbound campaigns, while sharing results and successful aspects with your Growth Enterprise colleagues
• Using modern AI tools to enhance how you run complex enterprise deals, including generative AI and sales technology for comprehensive account research and stakeholder mapping
• Leveraging AI-driven insights to understand business priorities, risks, and opportunities across accounts, applying these insights to shape deal strategy and build compelling executive narratives
• Creating tailored messaging using clear, effective prompts and preparing for high-value customer conversations with AI-enhanced research and preparation
• Delivering outcome-focused pitches to senior decision-makers by combining AI-driven account intelligence with strategic sales methodologies
• Creating and delivering accurate sales forecasts through strong pipeline management
• Collaborating with the greater sales team to share best practices and innovate
• Team selling with your cross-functionally partners in Sales Development, Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales Engineering, Marketing, Content, Product and Executives to help grow your book of business

Benefits

• Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, and experience.
• This role is also eligible for equity and uncapped OTE.
• OTE Compensation Range: $196,000 - $245,000

Company Description

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI.