Federal Account Executive

The Company

Serving the People Who Serve the People

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the Gov Tech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on Built In.

Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

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The Granicus Federal Sales Team is a dynamic, results-driven group charged with driving new revenue in a young and energized Cloud Vertical. The existing Federal Sales team has established a baseline of Federal customers who have adopted the core Granicus Citizen Engagement communications software platform. Significant opportunities exist to upsell innovative digital services and solutions and provide a services wrapper leveraging the core Granicus software platform to help government customers in achieving their mission objectives.

It is against this backdrop that Granicus seeks to hire a new Sales Account Executive, Federal for mission-driven sales approach to best position Granicus as the digital innovation leader.

The Federal Account Executive will be responsible for both proactive outreach beginning with lead generation and continue through the sales-cycle funnel as well as leveraging and upselling from the existing base of Federal customers. Success metrics would include larger complex deals and engagement at higher levels within the target customer and the programmatic level when appropriate. This position is supported by an account development team, marketing department, and technical project managers.

• Understand customer mission requirements for digital communications with the public, including mapping to Executive Priorities within the Agency, office, or program.
• Develop and independently deliver custom presentations on Granicus to revolutionize the prospect's engagement within the Public Sector.
• Conduct detailed research and comprehensive analysis on the Federal Government Vertical, specific to Civilian Agencies and their business imperatives and challenges to drive demand generation.
• Develop effective and specific sales strategies, territory, and account plans, leveraging all assets available (e.g., lines of service, marketing events, delivery resources) that represent pipeline growth and business opportunities.
• Establishes agency management level relationships based on knowledge of customer requirements and commitment to value (value of counsel and expertise, value of solutions, value of implementation expertise). Builds a trust foundation on which to provide guidance to enhance agency mission outcomes.
• Lead designated territory, including customer/client relationships, prospect profiling, and sales cycles. Encourage all clients to become Granicus references.
• Follow a disciplined approach to maintain a differentiated solutions message that reduces time to identify and pursue a rolling pipeline of opportunities. Keep pipeline current and moving up the pipeline curve and into the sales funnel.
• Identify risk elements within Agency mission challenges and leveraging Granicus services portfolio to address
• Leverage support…