Key Account Director

The Role

The Key Account Director at Sohonet is responsible for working with assigned customers and selected target prospects to support their adoption of Sohonet services, continuously educate them, solve administrative issues, build deeper and wider relationships within the accounts, upsell additional services and ultimately, renew their contracts to retain and expand their monthly recurring revenue with Sohonet.

This is a sales role that requires renewing existing business, finding opportunities to up-sell those contracts and hunting across existing customers and selected new prospects for opportunities to sell into. The approximate split across targets would be 75-80% selling into existing customers and 20-25% pursuing new logos sales within Tier 1 and 2 media targets. Requires extensive pipeline building and prospecting. The candidate must be highly motivated, extremely organized, results-oriented and possess outstanding communication, negotiating, pipeline building and closing skills.

Responsibilities

Meet or exceed quarterly sales bookings goals.

Structure and sell profitable solutions to drive growth at the top and bottom lines for Sohonet.

Participate in regular team and 1-on-1 meetings to discuss advancing sales opportunities, removing blockers, deal structure and strategy.

Contribute to a strong sales culture built around individual effort combined with teamwork, CRM and sales tool discipline, aggressively managing leads, “land and expand” account based selling and a continuous focus on achievement.

Build, strengthen and expand relationships with assigned accounts that include leading studios, networks, production and post-production companies, VFX shops, digital agencies and other selected media companies.

Schedule and complete at least nine meetings per week with customers and prospects.

Attend industry events, network and be immersed in the media and entertainment scene with the objective of building sustainable relationships that will lead to business opportunities and closed business.

Work with internal cross-functional teams to advocate for clients, resolve sales blockers and to share information about specific customers and the overall market.

Maintain extensive knowledge of Sohonet’s products and services and how they serve our customer's needs, including features, advantages, and benefits, and key examples of usage.

Ensure Sohonet is represented in a professional and positive manner; be an evangelist for Sohonet.

Skills & Education

University degree or equivalent

Fluency in written and spoken English.

8+ years related experience in media services, media/content centric SaaS/PaaS or network services selling into the media and entertainment industry.

Good understanding of network concepts and technologies.

The candidate is experienced in both inside-sales as well as face-to-face sales of SaaS/PaaS platforms and services in the $5K - $100K ACV space.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven presentation/demonstration and client interaction skills.

Ability to work in a team environment as well as individually.

Proficiency with Salesforce.com and associated sales systems is preferred.

Ability to manage multiple opportunities and varying levels of complexity concurrently.

The Candidate

Has an extensive set of established relationships in production and post-production circles with major studios, streamers and their post production partners.

Passion for solving media customer challenges with technology and services.

Responsible, self-motivated and professional.

Hands-on approach to tackling tactical as well as strategic work.

Proven ability to operate effectively – and with velocity – in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial startup environment in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative is a must.

A high level of energy with the ability and desire to work on advancing opportunities during standard, as well as non-standard, working hours.

Ability to travel as required by the business.

Must be a citizen of the United States or eligible to work in the US.