Role Description
Trolley is currently looking for a Senior Account Executive, Music to join our Revenue team. As a Senior Account Executive, Music, you will own new business within one of Trolley’s most established and important verticals. You will sell to companies across the music ecosystem, including:
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Record labels
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Distributors
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Publishers
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Streaming and digital music platforms
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Royalty administration businesses
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Artist services companies
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Rights management platforms
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Other music technology businesses
The problems you will help solve sit at the intersection of payments and royalty operations. You will work with stakeholders across:
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Finance
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Royalty Operations
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Product
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Engineering
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Tax and Compliance
In your role you will:
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Own and close enterprise opportunities across the global music industry.
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Build relationships with record labels, music distributors, publishers, streaming platforms, royalty administrators, artist services businesses and music technology companies.
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Develop a strong understanding of each prospect’s royalty and payout operations.
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Run discovery, demo and solutioning calls with stakeholders.
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Position Trolley’s Pay, Tax, Trust and Sync products against operational, compliance and artist-experience challenges.
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Navigate complex enterprise sales cycles involving technical integrations, multiple stakeholders, security reviews and commercial negotiations.
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Maintain active engagement with new and existing opportunities through thoughtful outreach and follow-up.
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Attend music industry conferences, trade shows and customer events.
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Entrepreneurially build a meaningful portion of your own pipeline.
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Work closely with Marketing, Partnerships, Product and Customer Success.
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Support and expand recently won accounts alongside our Customer Success team.
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Achieve monthly and quarterly sales quotas.
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Maintain a disciplined sales process and accurate pipeline in Salesforce.
Qualifications
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7+ years of B2B SaaS, fintech or enterprise technology sales experience in a closing role.
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A proven track record of closing complex enterprise deals with ACVs above $150k USD.
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Experience selling into the music industry is strongly preferred.
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You understand, or are motivated to deeply understand, how money moves through the music industry.
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You can speak credibly with Finance and operational buyers while also navigating conversations with Product and Engineering teams.
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You are comfortable selling technical products involving APIs, integrations, data workflows, payments, tax or compliance.
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You are capable of learning complicated royalty, tax and payout workflows.
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You know how to turn industry knowledge and relationships into pipeline.
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You are comfortable developing relationships across an industry and representing Trolley at conferences and events.
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You are competitive, organized and disciplined about your pipeline.
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You combine diligence with creativity and are comfortable operating in a fast-moving market.
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You are humble, focused, analytical and curious.
Benefits
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Competitive base salary and commission plan
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An amazing team of diverse people working together on a common mission.
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Extended Healthcare benefits including dental, vision, LTD, etc.
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4 weeks paid vacation per year + public holidays (+ 1 extra vacation day per year of service).
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5 personal/sick days per year
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Gym Membership allowance.
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1/2 day Fridays during summer for July and August.