About the Role
As a Senior Account Executive on the Financial Services team, you will own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing to renewals. You will act as a hunter to identify, prioritize, reach out to, and close new business, with typical deal sizes ranging from $50K to $500K annually. You will also manage 8-14 Braze customer accounts alongside the Customer Success team, serving as a trusted commercial and strategic advisor.
Responsibilities
- Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing to renewals
- Identify, prioritize, reach out to, and close new business
- Manage 8-14 Braze customer accounts alongside the Customer Success team
- Serve as a trusted commercial and strategic advisor to customer accounts
Requirements
- 3-5 years of New Business sales experience selling SaaS solutions with technically integrated products
- Ability to generate and manage your own pipeline
- Strategic and creative thinking to drive desired outcomes through effective and persistent outreach
- Ability to manage many moving parts
- Consultative and human selling approach
- Ability to tell stories and listen attentively
- Demonstrate value-first conversation mechanics, including discovery, understanding business pain, desired outcomes, and differentiated value
- Analytical and data-driven approach, grounded in examples and defined by testing and iterating
- Desire to understand and make sense of complex systems and concepts
- Ability to help buyers navigate large SaaS investments, mobilize distributed organizations, and accelerate cycles
- Ability to identify and influence key people among many stakeholders
- Comfortable learning new things and navigating high-change environments
- Experience selling to or working for Financial Services (bonus)
- Experience selling to Growth/Marketing teams, or background in analytics, CRM, marketing automation, data storage/agility, or content marketing solutions (bonus)
Skills
- SaaS sales
- New Business sales
- Pipeline generation and management
- Strategic thinking
- Creative thinking
- Consultative selling
- Storytelling
- Active listening
- Value-based selling
- Data analysis
- Problem-solving
- Stakeholder management
- Adaptability
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Base salary: $80,000 - $100,000/year
- On Target Earnings (OTE): $160,000 - $200,000/year (including bonus or commission)
- Includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Equity grants
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- Fertility benefits
- Equal paid parental leave
- Professional development support (formal career pathing, learning platforms, yearly stipend)
- Curated in-office employee experience
- Opportunities to give back to the community (Volunteer Week, donation matching)
- Employee Resource Groups
- Great Place to Work® recognized culture
About the Company
- Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™.
- Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value for consumers and businesses.
- Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement.
- Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.
- Consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts.
- Named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026.
- Named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In.
- Named a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek.
- Named a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®.
- Proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
- Headquartered in New York with offices globally.
Equal Opportunity
- Braze strives to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and outside the organization.
- Committed to offering all candidates a fair, accessible, and inclusive experience – regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, maternity, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.
- Encourages candidates to apply even if they don't meet 100% of the criteria.
