New Business Account Executive, Mid Market

    Zoominfo

    🇺🇸 Bethesda, Maryland, United States; Vancouver, Washington, United States; Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
    SaaS
    Hybrid
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    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

    greenhouse

    About this role

    ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen–fast.

     

    As a Mid Market New Business Account Executive, you will drive the company’s growth through strategic engagement with medium-sized organizations, navigating their more complex decision-making structures to secure new business opportunities. In this role, you will focus on understanding the unique challenges and needs of mid-market clients, crafting customized solutions that deliver substantial value. Your success will be built on your ability to effectively manage full sales cycles, from initial contact through to deal closure, while orchestrating interactions with multiple stakeholders to achieve consensus and facilitate decision-making processes.

    What You Will Do:

    • Proactively identify and cultivate relationships with potential clients within the mid-market space, focusing on organizations with 100 to 1000 employees.
    • Develop a deep understanding of the specific challenges related to the prospects go-to-market efforts and effectively position ZoomInfo solutions to solve the customer challenges..
    • Manage sophisticated sales cycles that range from two weeks to six months. This includes deep discovery discussions, rich presentations, managing proof of concept requests, multi-threading accounts and building custom proposals among other steps. Executing with precision and alignment to the client's needs is critical.
    • Employ a structured yet flexible sale

    Tools & Tech Stack

    ZoomInfo

    Selling Motion

    Sales Cycle

    Mid-Market

    1–6 month cycles, moderate deal complexity

    Prospecting

    Outbound-Heavy

    Self-sourced pipeline via cold outreach

    Requirements at a Glance

    Bachelor's Degree·Required

    Typical Day — Account Executive

    Stakeholder meetings3–5/week
    Executive presentations2–3/week
    Business cases & RFPs1–2/week
    Forecast & pipeline2×/week
    Champion coachingDaily

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    SaaS — Interview Intel

    Typical Sales Cycle

    30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)

    Common Buyer Objections

    • "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
    • "We built something in-house already"
    • "We don't have budget until next quarter"
    • "Our team won't adopt another tool"

    Key Industry Metrics

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    Hot Topics to Reference

    • • AI-native product disruption
    • • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
    • • Vertical SaaS consolidation
    • • Usage-based pricing models

    Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.

    Tags

    816 New Sales - Account Executives
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    Walk me through your discovery process.

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    How do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?

    Template question
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    Tell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.

    Template question
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    How do you build business cases for stakeholders?

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    Describe a deal you lost and what you learned.

    Template question
    Research Zoominfo's product, recent news, and key competitors
    Prepare metrics: quota attainment %, average deal size, win rate
    Practice a 2-minute product demo pitch for a mock discovery call
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

    This Account Executive position at Zoominfo involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.

    SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.

    The US market offers the highest OTE potential globally for sales professionals, with a highly competitive talent landscape.

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