Corporate Install-Base Sales Leader
Nashville, TN - USA
Job Summary
You will own that team the playbook and the outcomes - and youll report directly to the VP of Sales Development & Commercial as a foundational member of the Corporate Sales Leadership Team.
- Lead the Installbase AE team. Recruit coach and develop a team of 6 fully-ramped Corporate Installbase AEs who own the full post-sale commercial cycle - renewal upsell and cross-sell - across their portfolios.
- Own the renewal and expansion number. Deliver against Gross Dollar Retention (GDR) Growth ARR (GAR) and Annual Total Renewable (ATR) targets across the Corporate installbase. Partner closely with the Corporate New-Logo leadership team to ensure a seamless handoff at close.
- Build the installbase playbook from the ground up. Define the operating motion for strategic account planning QBRs and health checks white-space mapping usage-telemetry-driven expansion plays and commercial renewal negotiation - including pricing paper legal and security.
- Drive proactive retention. Coach the team to identify and mitigate retention risks early maintaining high customer satisfaction while protecting the base as it grows.
- Unlock new use cases. Equip your AEs to partner with customers on identifying new use cases and surfaces to expand Gleans footprint - turning adoption and value realization into expansion opportunities.
- Drive multi-threading and executive selling. Coach reps to convert user-level champions into budget owners and to run renewal-and-expansion conversations at the CFO/CIO altitude.
- Run a tight operating cadence. Forecasting pipeline reviews deal inspection MEDDPICC discipline and crisp paper process on every renewal. Shorten the gap between adoption signal and commercial outcome.
- Partner cross-functionally. Work hand-in-hand with AIOM Deployment Customer Success RevOps Marketing and Product to fix imperfectly-deployed accounts accelerate value realization and turn under-deployed customers into expansion opportunities.
- Serve as the voice of the customer. Synthesize feedback from your teams accounts and convey market needs back to Product Deployment and GTM leadership to inform the roadmap and the broader installbase strategy.
- Hire ahead of the curve. Calibrate sourcing with Recruiting on a profile that is distinct from the standard Corporate AE - sellers with real renewal expansion quota-carrying experience commercial negotiation muscle and AI fluency.
- Set the cultural bar. Embody Gleans six Sales Team Core Behaviors - Passion for Sales Grit Coachability Growth Orientation Process Focus and Driven to Win - and hold the team to that standard.
- GDR improvement versus the FY26 baseline.
- Grow ARR uplift from the Corporate installbase.
- Time returned to greenfield AEs measurably less post-sales drag on the New Logo team.
- Build best-in-class operating motion with clear ownership sharp inspection and consistent renewal and expansion execution.
- Build a high-performing low-attrition team that becomes a destination seat in Corporate Sales and a feeder to future leadership roles.
- 5 years of B2B SaaS sales experience including 2 years leading a quota-carrying team focused on renewals expansion account management or installbase growth.
- Proven track record of consistently exceeding both retention (GDR/NRR) and expansion (GAR/NRR) targets on an existing-customer book.
- Strong combination of consultative sales acumen and relationship management skills - youve grown accounts through strategic upsell while maintaining high retention rates.
- Hands-on experience leading commercial renewal negotiations end-to-end - pricing paper legal and security - at the SaaS Corporate or Commercial segment.
- Demonstrated ability to coach reps on multi-threading across Champion Economic Buyer and Procurement and on executive engagement at the CFO/CIO level.
- Strong command of value-based selling and sales methodologies (MEDDPICC Command of the Message Challenger or similar).
- Operational rigor: you run tight forecasts inspect deals at the right altitude and turn data (usage telemetry adoption signals account health) into commercial action.
- Demonstrable AI fluency - repeatable workflows where you use AI to make yourself and your team faster and smarter. This is a first-class hiring dimension at Glean.
- A builders mentality: youre energized by standing things up not just running what already exists.
- Coachable growth-oriented and gritty. You internalize feedback take ownership and see natural talent as just the starting point.
- A player-coach disposition - youre as comfortable in a customer conversation as you are in a 1:1.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Nice to Have:
- Experience scaling an installbase or growth AE team from the ground up at a high-growth SaaS company.
- Background managing accounts with average deal sizes in the $50K$500k range.
- Familiarity with AI search or data infrastructure products.
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Nashvile office)
- Relocation support is available for the right candidate.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.
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About Company
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