Senior Account Executive, Central US
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 145000 - 165000
Posted on:
23 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Via is on a mission to create public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs healthcare and education. Our platform serves as the technology backbone for modern transit networks transforming antiquated and siloed public transportation systems into smart data-driven and efficient digital networks. With hundreds of agency partners around the world Via is recognized as the leading transportation technology and service provider globally.
As a Senior Account Executive at Via youll lead sales for your region across both public and private sectors helping cities move toward more inclusive sustainable tech-enabled transportation. Youll own a revenue target and run your market end-to-end: finding opportunities building the right relationships and turning big mobility ideas into real closed deals. As part of Vias Partnerships team youll go far beyond traditional sales. We work side-by-side with cities and private operators to define what great mobility looks like and turn it into real deployed systems: moving fast taking ownership and holding ourselves to a high bar for impact.
What Youll Do
- Identify prospective partners in your territory and build meaningful and durable revenue-generating relationships with a diverse group of prospective clients from elected officials to private-sector business leaders. Lead execution and strategy for full-cycle Sales efforts across your territory working to make transit better for your community and your regions communities.
- Strategically navigate your markets unique buying landscape using research strong analytical skills to build compelling data-driven business cases for our platform and demonstrate our value proposition across a range of verticals..
- Be a thought partner to prospective clients by educating and consulting with them to develop regional transit plans and find funding mechanisms within your market.
- Champion our mission and technology as the face of Via by leading local marketing campaigns speaking at conferences and providing consistent thought leadership in the mobility space.
Who You Are
- You have a minimum of 8 years of client facing experience with a record of achievement in the Sales Business Development Consulting or similar space
- An educator collaborator and thought partner: you enjoy consultative sales processes and know how to use data to build a compelling narrative
- A skilled and methodical researcher: youre attracted to complex problems and youre not afraid to jump into new environments.
- Intuitive communicator; whether in customer conversations product presentations or written proposals you always strike the right tone and communicate persuasively.
- Superb commercial intuition and exceptional judgment -- you know when to push and when to yield in maximizing the value of a potential deal.
- A reliable motivated self-starter with a passionate growth mentality. You enjoy fast-paced environments arent deterred by setbacks or pivots and thrive in roles requiring a very high degree of responsibility.
- An excellent team player; youre a meaningful individual contributor and a mentor to others on your team. You view successes as team efforts and enjoy working with others.
Compensation and Benefits
- Final salary will be determined by the candidates experience knowledge and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay where applicable
- Base Salary Range: $145000-$165000
- We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package including free medical plans and 401K matching.
Were Via and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. Were driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs healthcare and education. With our best in class suite of products we make transit thrive.
Our teams of world-class engineers data-scientists product managers operations specialists marketers transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012 Via builds solutions to digitize automate and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses microtransit paratransit school buses autonomous vehicles and more.
If youre excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation are up for solving tough problems and willing to become/already are a transit nerd we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.
Ready to join the ride
Via is an equal opportunity employer.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- Direct Sales
- B2B Sales
- Public Relations
- SAAS
- Account Management
- Product Demos
- Salesforce
- Outside Sales
- CRM Software
- Enterprise Sales
- negotiation
About Company
We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: we know that the future of transportation is safe, dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across congested cities, complements existing transit i ... View more
