Account Executive, Emerging Markets
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Clio. Sydney · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Build a sales approach for priority Asian markets and move qualified opportunities from evaluation through close
- Create new pipeline with SDRs and channel partners, then keep Salesforce forecasts and deal stages accurate
- Lead discovery and value-focused demos to assess product fit, using strong product knowledge
- Develop prospect business cases, run events, negotiate deals and secure approval from multiple decision makers
- Travel across the region for client meetings, events and partner work while sharing market insights with the team
What you bring
- At least five years in a B2B sales team, or equivalent experience
- At least two years closing new SaaS business in a sales role
- A record of building pipeline with channel partners and winning new customers
- Fluent written and spoken English
Who this fits
You’ll suit a consultative seller who enjoys building a business in fast-moving, developing markets and working closely with partners and solution engineers. The role is based in Sydney and involves regular travel across the region. It is an individual contributor Account Executive role.
From the employer
Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.
We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.
Summary:
We’re looking for an Account Executive to join our growing APAC Sales team in Sydney and lead Clio’s expansion into emerging markets across Asia.
Our APAC team is driving Clio’s growth in some of the most exciting and fast-developing legal markets in the world. The team operates like a startup within a larger company, which means we experiment, learn quickly and blaze the trail for Clio in new markets. We’re looking for someone who wants to play a critical role in a close-knit, supportive team as we work towards becoming the market leader in legal technology worldwide.
What your team does:
As an Account Executive, Emerging Markets, you’ll be building Clio’s presence in largely untapped markets across Asia. You’ll focus on driving value for law firms and legal teams, generating pipeline, uncovering opportunities, evaluating product fit and partnering with Solution Engineers and Channel Partners to solve complex problems. This role will involve regular travel across the region for client meetings, events and partner engagements.
Who you are:
We aren’t looking for a traditional Account Executive. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-growth, high-velocity environment and is energised by building something from the ground up. You’re eager to grow your business, your customers, your peers and yourself.
You’ll be a trusted advisor, bringing a consultative mindset to every interaction and driving meaningful change for your customers and peers.
What you’ll work on:
- Building and executing a go-to-market approach for priority emerging markets across Asia
- Strategically working qualified opportunities through to close
- Prospecting and generating new pipeline, in partnership with our SDR team and Channel Partners
- Managing your sales pipeline and forecast accurately in Salesforce
- Qualifying product fit in discovery calls and delivering value-based demonstrations, drawing on strong product knowledge and sales best practice
- Working with Solution Engineers, Channel Partners, Product, Marketing and Customer Success to deliver solutions for customers
- Developing business cases for prospects, creating compelling events and negotiating deals to close
- Navigating multiple decision makers, including partnership groups, managing partners and general counsel, to secure approvals
- Sharing market insights with the wider team to help shape Clio’s regional strategy
- Consistently exceeding your annual sales quota, and being well rewarded for doing so
What you may have:
- 5+ years of progressive experience in a B2B sales team, or equivalent experience
- 2+ years closing new business in a SaaS sales role, ideally managing a high volume of deals through a fast-paced sales cycle
- Experience growing pipeline through channel partners, with a hunter mindset and a track record of winning new logos
- Multi-market sales experience, ideally with some exposure to Asian markets
- Fluent English, both written and spoken
- A highly passionate and self-driven approach
- A track record of high performance in previous roles
Serious bonus points if you have:
- Experience in the legal industry, or selling to professional services firms
- Experience launching or scaling a product in a new market
- Experience in a hyper-growth environment
- Proficiency in one or more additional Asian languages
What you will find here:
Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.
Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:
Competitive, equitable salary (exclusive of superannuation) with top-tier health benefits
Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
Exclusive of superannuation
Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years
Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility
Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers
We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.
Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.