Account Executive

Posted May 17

Account Executive (Strategic / Enterprise)

Knapsack is a leading design system platform that is defining the category and changing the way companies build digital products. We provide critical infrastructure and services that help major enterprise digital product organizations stand up sustainable and scalable digital production operations. We support companies from the Fortune 100 to mid-market and are backed by some amazing investors (including Gradient Ventures, Slack Fund, Founder Collective, Crosslink Capital, and Parade Ventures). Learn more about our latest $5.5M funding round here, and our approach to design systems here.

We’re looking for an Account Executive with a proven track record of success in enterprise (Fortune 1000) SaaS sales to join our growing Sales organization. This is a critical and exciting time for our Sales organization as we look to build on our strongest months on record and support the business’ pursuit of a Series A fundraise, and this role will have a major impact on our future trajectory.

What you'll do:

  • Act as a primary point of contact and the face of Knapsack for our prospects
  • Lead the sales strategy and execution of your deals, focusing on strong qualification, creating urgency, and managing the enterprise procurement process effectively
  • Contribute to pipeline generation, prospecting, and lead generation (working closely with our Director of Business Development)
  • Clearly articulate and demonstrate our value proposition via presentations and demos
  • Create excitement and enthusiasm among prospects
  • Consistently manage accurate pipeline and CRM data, including buying process, buying criteria, next steps and owners
  • Collaborate with Customer Success, BizDev and Marketing to drive expansion within existing accounts
  • Collaborate with other GTM team members and test new customer acquisition strategies to increase pipeline and accelerate the sales cycle
  • Consistently contribute product ideas and feedback via our internal tracker tool
  • Contribute to sales scripts, prospect messaging, and sales playbook
  • Identify inefficiencies and implement improvements in our sales process

What you'll bring:

  • Curiosity, ambition, and humility
  • Experience in SaaS business development, ideally for development or design solutions
  • Proven ability to identify and engage early-stage buyer personas, including through cold outreach
  • Ability to synthesize and translate complex technical concepts into effective and external communications and compelling sales messaging
  • Data-driven mindset for decision making and strategy development
  • Comfort leading engagements with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders
  • Comfort and confidence working autonomously in times and areas of ambiguity
  • Ability to receive and provide actionable feedback
  • Effective communicator, strong interpersonal skills
  • Motivated, driven, and results oriented
  • Excellent negotiation, presentation, and closing skills
  • Experience with design systems a plus, but not required

About Knapsack

Knapsack unites design, code, and content in a central source of truth for your entire product team. Their revolutionary design system platform was built to support collaboration between designers and engineers, and to help teams build better products.

We provide our team with top-notch benefits:

  • Fully-remote team, so you can work from wherever you want
  • All-company trips in fun locations
  • Whatever tools you need to do great work, tech and otherwise
  • Unlimited paid vacation
  • 401K plan
  • $150/month wellness budget (fitness classes, gym, massages, therapy)
  • 100% of monthly health premiums covered for you and your dependents

As a team, we strive to approach every opportunity, every challenge, every conversation with our core values top of mind:

  1. Honor openness and vulnerability. We believe that diverse voices are important and lead to better solutions. We foster an environment where opinions and feedback are not only heard, but carry weight. We are kind and empathetic in our communications with each other and regularly express gratitude for each other's contributions. Feedback is delivered compassionately and intended to inspire growth.
  2. Practice mindfulness and intentionality. Our actions are centered around our intentions and aligned toward shared outcomes. We communicate with intentionality—we focus on the future, not just the present. We respect the humility of not knowing and appreciate questions as much as answers. We use our voices, drive, and experiences to find ways to improve the business while growing as a team and individuals.
  3. Prioritize shipping, not perfection. To get our customers the tools they need as quickly as possible, we want to ship good—not perfect. To achieve this, we keep communications and planning as simple and straightforward as possible. We strive to be iterative in our workflows; with strong beliefs loosely held we can react to customer feedback and build great products for our users.
  4. Act with user empathy. User needs and struggles are at the heart of our work. Empathy for, and direct feedback from our users guides us and keeps us aligned towards shared goals.

If you share this vision, we’d love to work with you at Knapsack. Knapsack is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Compensation is a combination of salary and OTE with a range of $150k - $300k.