AVP, Solution Led Sales

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

 

The Opportunity 

As an AVP Sales at Adobe, a front-line leadership role, you will provide focus on Adobe’s Content Supply Chain solutions by building and managing a team of Account Executives in the Enterprise space. In addition, you can expect to be working very closely with the respective Enterprise teams to build awareness and develop new business opportunities. The team is fueled with a real passion for innovation, growth, and a relentless dedication to making the Marketer successful. We hire dynamic, passionate, and creative leaders who thrive in fast-paced environments.  

What you’ll do 

• Cultivate and secure new lines of business within targeted accounts, focusing on the Adobe Content Supply Chain solutions.  

• Recruit, coach, mentor, manage and lead a diverse world-class team of sales professionals to achieve quarterly sales targets. This includes closing new business and expanding upon existing clientele. Collaborate across the business to develop the GTM, from the sale of software to services and delivery. 

• Sell into multiple levels of an organization, open doors and empower the field team. 

• Manage a consultative sales process. 

• Develop effective sales strategies, work with solutions consulting teams to deliver compelling product demonstrations, use cases and sales pitches. Identify and develop sales enablement opportunities as needed within the field sales team as a whole. 

• Cultivate and grow relationships with industry leaders that will lead to sales opportunities and new business. 

• Apply a thorough understanding of the marketplace, industry trends, funding developments and products to all management activities and strategic sales decisions. 

• Ensure that Sales department operations function smoothly, with the goal of facilitating executed sales and/or closings; operational responsibilities include accurate pipeline reporting and quarterly sales forecasts. 

What you need to succeed 

• 5-10 years of successful software sales leadership experience within the enterprise space. 

• 10+ years overall experience in software selling required. A hybrid of experience selling software and services is also ideal. 

• Experience selling to the CIO, CDO, CMO highly valued. 

• Knowledge of large, complex sales models highly desired, as well as prior experience selling emerging technologies. 

• Strong presentation skills, executive presence and influencing skills critical. 

• Highly motivated, as well as able to create and develop a highly-motivated, success oriented sales team. 

• BA/BS degree required or equivalent related experience. 

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $238,900 -- $395,700 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.
 

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