Mid-career · Selling · also called Enterprise AE, Senior Account Executive
Enterprise Account Executive
Runs large, multi-year, multi-stakeholder deals with procurement, legal and security involved.
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What you do
- Build the business case and the economics
- Govern proofs of concept and evaluations
- Run security and legal reviews to a close
- Plan rollout and handover so the promise is kept
What you need to be able to show
- Total cost and commercial structure
- Assurance evidence: what SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports show
- Rollout and change planning
- Executive narrative that stays inside the evidence
- AI governance questions
Where ASTRA fits
Integrating architecture, economics, assurance, AI governance, discovery, channel boundaries and rollout into a defensible recommendation. 56 questions across 8 cases · 120 minutes.
The ASTRA Tech Sales Advisor examination integrates architecture, economics, assurance, AI governance and rollout into one defensible recommendation — the enterprise deal in miniature.
Also relevant: ASTRA Cybersecurity Sales Specialist
Credentials people in this role commonly hold
- Sales methodology training (MEDDICC, Sandler, Challenger, Command of the Message and similar) · Various training companies; usually bought by employers · Usually free through your employer
A shared language for qualifying and running deals. Valuable inside the company that uses it; not a standardised credential. - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Amazon Web Services · Paid exam
Plain-language understanding of cloud services, billing and shared responsibility on AWS. - Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Microsoft · Paid exam
Cloud concepts, Azure services and pricing basics. - Vendor partner sales accreditations · Cloud and software vendors through their partner programmes (for example AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Cisco) · Usually free through your employer
Vendor-specific selling knowledge required to keep partner status. Usually free to partner staff.