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Twilio is seeking a senior New Business Account Executive to win mid-market and enterprise business for its messaging, voice, and email communications platform. The role owns prospecting, consultative solution sales, pipeline development, forecasting, and complex competitive deal cycles in the High Tech and Financial Services verticals. Candidates need at least eight years of technology sales experience, including six years in a closing role, with strong SaaS or CPaaS expertise. This is a US-based remote role with approximately 20% customer and team travel. Success requires cross-functional collaboration with product, finance, legal, pricing, operations, and solutions engineering teams.
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Sample interview questions
I would explain the customer problem, buying committee, competitive landscape, sales strategy, and measurable outcome. I would emphasize how I discovered technical and commercial requirements, involved the right internal specialists, built a differentiated business case, and maintained momentum through procurement and legal review.
I segment accounts by fit, growth signals, technology environment, and likely communications use cases. I then create account hypotheses, map stakeholders, prioritize outreach sequences, track conversion metrics, and regularly refine the plan based on pipeline quality and customer feedback.
I would tailor the discussion to each audience while maintaining one shared value narrative. Technical leaders would receive detail on APIs, reliability, integration, security, and scalability, while business sponsors would see the expected customer-experience, revenue, risk, and operational impact.
I use defined stage-exit criteria, validate champion strength and decision processes, confirm timelines and commercial risks, and inspect next steps frequently. I distinguish pipeline from forecast, document risks transparently, and use historical conversion data and deal-specific evidence to improve forecast accuracy.
I would describe how I clarified non-negotiables, quantified trade-offs, and partnered with legal, finance, pricing, and operations early. My goal would be to protect long-term customer value and company economics while giving stakeholders clear options that enabled a timely agreement.
About this role.
Who we are
At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.
Our dedication to remote-first work, and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands.
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Hiring and how we work
We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions!
Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings.
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See yourself at Twilio
Join the team as Twilio’s next New Business Account Executive 4 on our High Tech team!
About the job
This position is needed to lead prospecting, solution selling and closing new business opportunities across our Messaging, Voice and Email products. In this role, you will be directly responsible for expanding our messaging business with some of the largest and fastest growing mid-market and enterprise companies in the High Tech vertical. New Business Account Executives are experts in the CPaaS ecosystem and Twilio’s product offerings. This role is highly cross functional, with deep integration with product management, carrier relations, finance, and solutions engineering teams.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll:
- Drive new customer acquisition, while being assigned a quota for iACV (incremental Account Contract Value)
- Own highly analytical and consultative sales cycles to win business in competitive vendor sourcing cycles with Twilio’s messaging (e.g. SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Business Messages, Account Security, etc.), voice and email solutions.
- Work with customers across assigned verticals (Financial Services) to understand their business and technical requirements, and match them to the capabilities of Twilio’s communications API platform, designing a solution for their specific use cases.
- Work with teams in Finance, Legal, Pricing, and Operations to design mutually beneficial contracts to address customer requirements, while balancing the needs of our business.
- Be passionate about what you do, think outside the box, and use world-class interpersonal and communication skills to present complex contractual, technical, and financial details to prospects in a way that builds confidence and comfort in the proposed solution.
- Balance competing priorities and manage multiple projects and deals at the same time.
- Partner cross functionally with sales, services, product, and finance to develop long range territory strategies and sales plans.
- Act as the voice of the customer to Twilio’s product and carrier relations teams.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of the CPaaS industry – staying up to date on key industry initiatives and new capabilities – on behalf of your customers and the wider Twilio go-to-market organization.
- Generate and maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast utilizing our CRM, Salesforce.
- Stay current with industry changes and collaborate with your team and peers to learn and share best practices
Qualifications
Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn’t followed a traditional path, don’t let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
Required:
- Possess a total of 8 years of tech sales experience, with a minimum of 6 years in a closing role
- Directly selling technical SaaS or CPaaS and experience solution selling and multi-threading
- Experience outbound prospecting into new accounts and a strong “hunter” mentality for bringing in Mid-Market and Enterprise sized accounts
- Technical solutions selling experience working with real customers and prospects, listening to them, and solving problems
- Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships
- Analytical account development strategy based on using data to find opportunities and prove value
- Demonstrated track record of managing business forecasts and financial models
- Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite to define process and build programs
- Record of delivering market driven results, especially to scale and enterprise customers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of experience
Desired:
- Deep experience working with telecom companies, including CPAAS, SMS aggregators, carriers, or global communications platforms.
- Domain expertise from a highly quantitative industry such as DevOps, Fintech, advertising optimization, investment banking, security or commodity trading especially in non-standard segments.
- Software, SaaS, CPaas or PaaS selling experienc
Location
This role will be emote and located in the United States.
Travel
We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, approximately 20% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way.
What We Offer
Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.
Compensation
*Please note this role is open to candidates outside of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C., and Washington State. The information below is provided for candidates hired in those locations only.
The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:
- Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota or Vermont : $110,160 – $137,700.
- Based in Washington D.C., Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay Area): $116,280- $145,350.
- Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or the San Francisco Bay area, California: $122,400 – $153,300. This role may be eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan. All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.
- This role is eligible to earn commissions.
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
Applications for this role are intended to be accepted until November 20th, 2026, but may change based on business needs.
Twilio thinks big. Do you?
We like to solve problems, take initiative, pitch in when needed, and are always up for trying new things. That’s why we seek out colleagues who embody our values — something we call Twilio Magic. Additionally, we empower employees to build positive change in their communities by supporting their volunteering and donation efforts.
So, if you’re ready to unleash your full potential, do your best work, and be the best version of yourself, apply now! If this role isn’t what you’re looking for, please consider other open positions.
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