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Owns expansion ARR quotas and renewal performance across commercial accounts. Develops account plans, drives multi-product adoption and wallet-share growth, leads complex discovery and negotiations, manages renewals, forecasts revenue, inspects pipeline, and mitigates commercial risk. Partners with customer experience, product, and solutions teams to execute expansion strategies and ensure effective handoffs. The role requires substantial account management experience, commercial strategy, negotiation, and structured sales methodology expertise.

Develop and execute product marketing strategies, including positioning, messaging, market research, competitive analysis, launches, adoption, and sales enablement. Partner with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to translate technical capabilities into customer-focused value propositions. Analyze pipeline, campaign, and customer insights to optimize conversion and support revenue growth. Lead cross-functional alignment, manage marketing plans and deliverables, and ensure adherence to internal processes and quality standards.

The Sales Development Representative will engage in inbound and outbound communications, schedule demos for Account Executives, and meet monthly quotas, while building expertise in Cision's products and sales methodologies.

Owns, retains, and grows large Enterprise and Government accounts by driving expansion ARR, renewals, and durable net revenue retention. Leads strategic account planning, executive discovery, complex negotiations, procurement and compliance navigation, renewal-risk management, forecasting, and MEDDPICC sales execution. Partners cross-functionally on delivery and roadmap alignment while maintaining executive-level customer relationships and mentoring account resources.

Own and grow large Enterprise and Government accounts to expand ARR and protect NRR. Lead multi-year strategic account plans, execute advanced discovery with executive, procurement, security and technical stakeholders, navigate regulatory and procurement frameworks, run MEDDPICC-based complex negotiations and renewals, maintain forecast accuracy, and align expansion with delivery and product roadmap.

Manage and grow assigned accounts through high-volume outreach, retention, and upselling. Meet KPIs, collaborate across teams to build integrated solutions, negotiate contracts, manage renewals in Salesforce, and provide exceptional customer service and reporting.

The Account Executive is responsible for acquiring new customers and generating annual recurring revenue through structured pipeline management and sales methodologies.