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Account Executive
Location
Canada
Posted
59 days ago
Salary
$50K - $70K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Account Executive
Brafton Inc.
• This is a quota-carrying, revenue-driving role focused on new business acquisition and account growth across small and mid-sized businesses. • You will own the full sales cycle — from inbound and outbound opportunity generation through to close — while also driving expansion within your accounts. • This is a high-activity, high-impact role, but success isn’t just about volume — it’s about understanding marketing challenges and clearly demonstrating ROI to marketing and business leaders. • You’ll engage directly with stakeholders across marketing and leadership teams, translating their goals (traffic, rankings, leads, pipeline, revenue) into scalable content strategies powered by contentmarketing.ai. • Full-cycle sales: prospecting, inbound conversion, closing, and expansion • Managing a high volume of opportunities across SMB and mid-market accounts • Running efficient, insight-driven discovery focused on marketing goals and performance gaps • Translating marketing challenges (SEO, content production, lead generation) into clear, ROI-driven solutions for both marketing and business leaders • Positioning contentmarketing.ai as a faster, smarter way to scale content and improve marketing performance • Driving upsell and renewal opportunities within existing accounts • Maintaining disciplined pipeline management and accurate forecasting in HubSpot • Structuring and closing commercial agreements (contracts, MSAs, addendums)
Job Requirements
- 3 years of B2B sales experience in SaaS, digital marketing, or a similar space
- Strong understanding of digital marketing concepts (SEO, content strategy, demand generation, or performance marketing)
- Proven track record of hitting or exceeding quota in a high-volume sales environment
- Experience managing multiple deals simultaneously with shorter sales cycles
- Ability to engage credibly with marketing and business leaders and translate their goals into solutions
- Comfortable running consultative sales conversations without overcomplicating the process
Benefits
- Competitive Incentive plan
- Health Savings Account
- Pension
- Paid vacation
- Flexible remote schedule
- and more!
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