
Senior Account Executive South East Europe
Key Skills
Job Description
Backbase is a fast-growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are growing our Sales team and offer opportunities for ambitious, strategic Sales Executives who thrive in a client-facing advisory role.
Meet the job
You will carry your own sales quota within the LATAM sales team and deliver digital banking transformation opportunities with net-new customers, adding to a growing list of active Backbase customers. Based on your quota you will set objectives and plan accordingly to achieve targets. Backbase is expanding and there is no doubt that we have the best solution in our niche market. Being a Sr. Sales Executive at Backbase is an exciting and challenging role. This is an ideal position if you have 10+ years of successful sales and closing experience, with focus on building relationships and creating opportunities with new customers. Your professional DNA is that of a highly influential advisor with a focus on enterprise SaaS software in Financial Services. This position offers you to work in a flexible, no-nonsense, informal and fast-paced working environment, enabling and empowering you to grow as a sales professional. In this position you will report directly to the Regional Vice President of Sales.
Finally, you build close relationships with your customers to understand their business drivers and understand how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new enterprise software sales opportunities with Banking and Financial Service customers and effectively run a sales cycle to reach and exceed your goals.
Finally, you build close relationships with your customers to understand their business drivers and understand how to establish buy-in at all levels (sales management, delivery leads and senior/executive management). You will identify and qualify new sales opportunities with Enterprise Banking and Financial Service customers and effectively run a sales cycle to reach and exceed your goals.
How about you
Scope of the role will include:
● This is a quota carrying role in which you will identify and close opportunities for Backbase business primarily with net-new customer accounts and secondary opportunity to expand existing customer relationships;
● Managing and closing large software agreements ($1M+ ARR);
● Forecasting and managing net-new opportunities from identification to close;
● Leading customers to have value-focused digital banking strategies;
● Establishing a trusted advisor role with banking and financial institution customers;
● Aggregating and collecting requirements from customers and craft the business case for investments in digital banking transformation;
● Supporting Backbase's goal of building digital banking leadership;
● Other activities as required to fulfill the business objectives.
In order to really own this role, we think you’ll need:
● Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience;
● 8-10+ years experience in a quota carrying role;
● Track record of exceeding quota;
● 5+ years experience in digital banking;
● Ability to reverse engineer business objectives to reach your goals;
● Eagerness to figure out tough problems for your customers.
About Backbase
Backbase creates the best digital banking solutions on the planet, enabling our clients to deliver superior online and mobile customer experiences. We are a global, young-spirited, diverse (45+ nationalities), fast-growing and leading fintech company. Agile is our middle name and we love pushing innovation in the digital banking world. We make it work.
And we’re not done innovating just yet. Our 2,000+ employees work together on better and more advanced products. As we are in scaleup phase, we don’t believe in simply “doing our jobs”. We’ve always got room for new, creative talent to push us further. What will you bring to make us stronger?
We are organized to support you. You will receive time to educate yourself and will work with some of the best specialists in the business. We are work and play. At Backbase, you can come as you are and say it like it is.
Join us for a journey instead of a job!
Core Responsibilities
The Senior Account Executive will identify and close enterprise software sales opportunities with new and existing banking and financial institution clients. They are responsible for managing the full sales cycle, building trusted advisor relationships, and crafting business cases for digital banking transformation.
Requirements
Candidates must have 10+ years of successful sales experience, including at least 5 years in digital banking and a track record of exceeding quotas. A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required, along with fluency in one or more South East European languages.
Benefits
- Professional development
- Flexible working environment
About Backbase
Industry: Financial Services
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Backbase built the AI-native Banking OS - the operating system that turns fragmented banking operations into a Unified Frontline. Customers, employees, and AI agents work as one across digital channels, front-office, and operations. 120+ leading banks run on Backbase across Retail, SMB & Commercial, Private Banking, and Wealth Management. Backbase was founded in 2003 by Jouk Pleiter and is headquartered in Amsterdam, with teams across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America.