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Account Executive - SMB Sales

HackerEarth hackerearth.com Open · verified Sep 25, 2026
Bangalore Full-time Mid-level Account Executive

At a glance

Mid-level Account Executive role at HackerEarth. Bangalore · full-time.

Pay not stated

RoleAccount Executive
SeniorityMid-level
LocationBangalore
EmploymentFull-time
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Find prospective customers across India and book meetings with C-level and VP-level decision makers
  • Run discovery, presentations, product demonstrations and deal closures in a fast-moving sales cycle
  • Build monthly, quarterly and yearly pipeline while keeping forecasts accurate against new-business targets
  • Learn the technology hiring and HR technology landscape to match client needs with suitable solutions
  • Handle invoicing, payment collection and portfolio relationships that can grow customer spending

What you bring

  • One to three years of direct SaaS sales experience with mid-market customers
  • A record of selling to enterprise and mid-market decision makers, including C-level executives
  • Experience creating pipeline through cold calls, targeted outreach and outbound email sequences
  • Consistent success meeting or beating sales quotas, with strong written, verbal and presentation skills
  • The ability to uncover client problems, listen actively and explain business value

Who this fits

You’ll suit a disciplined, competitive salesperson who wants to build pipeline, win new business and develop a sales career. The role is based in Bangalore and covers prospects across India. You’ll work with CRM and sales technology to record market information and support data-led selling.

From the employer

HackerEarth is an AI-powered developer assessment software that helps companies accurately measure a developer’s skills through online coding tests. It takes a skill-based approach to assessment, allowing companies to automatically generate standardized tests based on various skills and then accurately measure the developer’s performance on those skills.

We proudly serve 1000+ customers across the globe with many of the fortune 1000 names in the list like Google,
Walmart, Amazon, Barclays, GE, Siemens etc. We have assessed more than 2 million candidates, support 41 different programming languages, provide 8 different types of assessment techniques and enable assessments across 100+ different skills.

HackerEarth also has a community version of the product that is used by developers across the globe, to assess their coding skills, become better at it and measure their true potential. They do it by solving coding challenges across different topics/skills and by participating in online competitions/hackathons. We have a thriving community of 6 million+ developers.

You are a great for this role if you have:
  • Proven experience selling to C-level executives and decision makers in enterprises and mid-market.
  • Proven experience of building your own opportunity pipeline through outbound activities like cold calling, targeted emails and outbound email sequences.
  • Proven experience and through understanding of identifying new prospects and onboard them as new customers.
  • Outstanding verbal, written and presentation skills
  • Ability to clearly assess client requirements, understand pain points and do value selling.
  • Proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas on a consistent basis
  • You understand the importance of Sales Incentives (uncapped incentives) as a sales professional
What you will do in this role at HackerEarth:
  • Prospect potential clients across India to identify the right prospects for HackerEarth
  • Generate meetings with C-level and VP level executives from the list of your prospects
  • Managing forecasts accurately to achieve and exceed new business sales quotas
  • Discover, Pitch, Demo and Close deals in a fast paced environment
  • Build predictable opportunity pipeline for the month, quarter and year to methodically meet the sales targets
  • Develop a good understanding of tech hiring and the current landscape of HR tech industry to serve the clients with best solutions
  • Responsible for timely invoicing and collection of payment from the clients
  • Maintain strong relationships with clients in his/her portfolio to increase their spends on HackerEarth solutions
  • Good understanding of CRM and other sales tech stack to capture market information and conduct data driven sales
What are we looking for in this role?
  • 1-3 years of direct selling experience in SaaS in mid-market segments
  • An extremely passionate Sales person who believes in hard work and discipline
  • Someone who likes to show up and does the job consistently
  • Who is competitive and sets a high bar when it comes to winning new deals and adding revenue to the company
  • Strong interpersonal skills and who can communicate effectively
  • Problem Solver who can actively listen to prospects and deliver business impact with the right solutions
  • Someone who is motivated to build a great sales career
  • If you’re looking for an outstanding opportunity that you can really make your own, we would love to hear from you.
In return, you can look forward to being part of one of the coolest and fastest growing startups in the country offering outstanding professional growth and a healthy work culture.

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