Account Executive, Large Enterprise
Los Angeles · Boston · USD 128,000-192,000 · 7+ years experience · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Location
- Los Angeles · Boston
- Salary
- USD 128,000-192,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Klaviyo is seeking an Account Executive to target Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies within their rapidly growing enterprise segment.
- The role involves prospecting, managing the full sales cycle, and driving platform adoption across email, SMS, and customer data tools.
- You will be responsible for building business cases, navigating complex buying committees, and managing account growth and renewals.
Responsibilities
- Prospect your own territory, research accounts, and build relationships where Klaviyo has no current presence.
- Act as the CEO of your territory by creating account plans and coordinating internal resources like solutions engineering and marketing.
- Run business-value discovery to identify problems and build business cases for the platform.
- Sell to the full buying committee, including CMO, CFO, CIO, or CDO.
- Win competitive deals by displacing incumbents and articulating the value of the Klaviyo platform.
- Close and forecast with discipline, including managing mutual action plans, security reviews, and procurement.
- Grow and renew existing accounts by expanding into more products and teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years in enterprise software sales.
- 7+ years selling to C-level executives from a field sales position.
- Proven experience as a hunter building pipeline from scratch and closing new logos.
- Experience selling into organizations with over $1B in revenue.
- Track record of closing annual contracts of $1M or more.
- At or above quota in at least two of the last three years on a multi-million dollar target.
- Experience leading complex deals lasting between nine and eighteen months.
- Deep understanding of MEDDPICC and value-based selling methodology.
- Domain experience in MarTech, CDPs, customer engagement platforms, ecommerce, or adjacent data platforms.
- Partner-led selling experience.
Benefits
- Annual cash bonus plan
- Variable compensation (OTE)
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits
Workplace
- Role requires approximately 30 to 40 percent travel for customer meetings, executive briefings, partner work, and industry events.
Skills
- MEDDPICC
- CRM
- Forecasting
- Conversation Intelligence
- AI Tools
- MarTech
- Ecommerce