Senior Account Executive

Senior Account Executive

Austin, Texas, USA

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We're united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

About The Role And Our Team

As a Senior Account Executive on our Venue team, you will hit and overachieve monthly sales goals by engaging with wedding professionals in our Venue and Catering categories across a variety of regions in the United States. Through high-volume cold calling and using a consultative sales process, you will build rapport with business owners to advise them on best practices and how to stay ahead of technology and industry trends through The Knot and The WeddingWire's advertising platforms. Our Account Executives are independent, highly-motivated, and can successfully overachieve monthly sales goals. They excel in creating connections, building rapport with business owners and decision makers, and understanding their goals and needs.

The Senior Account Executive, Venue role requires sales experience with the ability to manage a 3-week+ sales cycle and effectively manage a pipeline.

Applications for this role are being accepted on a rolling basis.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage pipelines from start to finish with high outbound activity efforts (75 dials/day), including working with cold accounts and warm marketing leads.
• Consistently overachieve monthly revenue quotas as well as daily, weekly, monthly activity expectations.
• Manage a diverse pipeline, including navigating short and longer, multi-decision maker sales processes.
• Build and maintain strong rapport over the phone with potential clients to uncover prospect needs and give a strong, crisp and on-point presentation.
• Hold meetings with stakeholders, sell with curiosity, perform great discovery on their business needs, pain points and solution impact, and close new deals.
• Consistently follow up with potential clients to negotiate contracts and close agreements to maximize profits.
• Track notes on all interactions and keep opportunities in your pipeline up-to-date in Salesforce.
• Proactively identify and make recommendations for improvement in the areas of processes, efficiency and productivity.
• Act as an ambassador of the TKWW culture and values by being passionate about serving our couples and vendors.

Successful Candidates Have

• 3+ years of demonstrated success in B2B sales, selling to SMB, Mid-Market or Enterprise clients.
• Demonstrated track record of consistent monthly quota attainment.
• High-volume inside B2B cold calling phone sales experience is required.
• Ability to organize work days and be proactive with time management.
• Proven success in a fast-paced, constantly evolving and competitive team environment.
• Ability to work independently, as well as be a collaborative team member.
• Knowledge of different sales methodologies and a curiosity to be proactive and creative in new and different methods to reach success.
• Strong analytical skills to identify trends, understand challenges, propose solutions and evaluate results.
• Possesses grit and drive to improve one's own sales efficiency and performance.
• Coachable and receptive to feedback.
• Salesforce proficiency, experience with Gong preferred.
• Customer-facing experience; tradeshows and events preferred.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and rapidly prioritize and adapt to changing initiatives.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written and listening communication skills with ability to engage and persuade.
• Experience delivering client-focused solutions to customer needs.
• Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Proactive culture keeper- sharing successes and uplifting others around them.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience.

This role is fully remote and not tied to any specific office location. While there are no regular in-office requirements, we encourage our remote team members to gather intentionally for key company and team events.

Starting pay is determined based on a combination of factors which may include location/market, education, experience, skills, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, commissions, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. We also offer benefits to eligible employees including medical, dental, retirement, and generous leave policies.

Annual salary range

$42,500 - $70,000 USD

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to make it even easier for our customers to plan life's most meaningful moments and for our small business owners to grow and scale. We would love to have you with us on our journey.

What We Love About You

• Commit to our customers : You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments.
• Raise the bar : You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision.
• Be all in : You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully.
• Celebrate impact : You measure success by the outcomes you create. You hold yourself accountable to delivering value, while recognizing progress and the lessons learned along the way. You love to win, together.

What you love about us:

We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter, both in and out of the office. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave, and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.

View email address on click.appcast.io is our approach to hybrid work. It's designed to support how we work best: combining the flexibility we value with meaningful opportunities to connect in person. Whether a role is View email address on click.appcast.io or not, we believe in purposeful moments to come together, build strong relationships, and drive bold ideas forward.

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• For roles not eligible for in-office expectations , we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.

To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.