Our CompanyChanging the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! The Opportunity:To support our public sector customers, we seek strong candidates that have extensive government experience and appreciate the needs of the mission. Adobe is looking for an Account Director who is responsible for achieving sales targets through the sale of Adobe’s Digital Experience Cloud. You will be part of our savvy sales team, working with Adobe customers across our Federal Civilian sector. This includes the development of long-term relationships with customers as well as crafting account plans for new relationships. The Account Director will achieve this through solution selling capabilities and direct, face-to-face contact with the customer. The individual will be responsible for navigating through the customer's organizations from the top to the bottom of each organization. Your team will guide and assist customers in achieving a success with Adobe solutions and help them expand the value realized from our solutions. The right fit will be, a high energy, data-minded, and tech-savvy person with prior experience in Federal Civilian sales.What you'll Do Create, maintain, and execute a business plan for the assigned vertical with goals and objectives, based on opportunity, customer needs, and Adobe's strategic direction.Define the sales strategy through a Strategic Account Plan to increase customer footprint for Adobe’s offerings in each account. Build a process of strategic account mapping and SES Level relationships using presales, consulting and the partner management teams.Ability to influence & direct multi-functional teams without formal authority. Inherently collaborative, while also demonstrating leadership to successful conduct strategic planBuild SES Level relationships with Directors, CIO’s, Mission and Critical Communication leaders via value based selling involving return on investment analysis and being able to build an abstraction between the technology itself and the core business benefits which are easily understandable by public sector executivesSound Business acumen around Forecasting and Pipeline Management. Maintain regular pipeline forecasts and provide business health checks to senior sales managementManage complex contract negotiations with ability to engage all necessary support (Contracts, Technical teams, Legal, Operations)Ensure that proper security & legal compliance measures are always applied and followed.What you need to succeed Bachelor’s Degree and preferably an MBA from respected collegesMinimum 5 years enterprise software sales experience within federal governmentCompetency in at least one sales methodology such as Value Selling, Challenger Selling, Spin Selling, etc..Experience with SaaS sales with preference in Customer Experience arenaOutstanding Communication Skills – Written and OralOur compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $237,200 -- $350,100 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more. 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