Job Description
Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.
Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do.
We're growing quickly and looking for a confident, driven Enterprise Account Executive with experience selling media intelligence, media monitoring, social listening, or communications technology platforms. In this role, you'll be responsible for winning new enterprise customers, generating pipeline, and driving revenue growth across a territory of strategic accounts.
As an Enterprise Account Executive, you'll partner with communications, PR, corporate affairs, and marketing leaders to help them modernize how they monitor, measure, and understand their media impact. We're looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels at navigating complex enterprise sales cycles, and has a proven track record of building executive relationships, managing multiple stakeholders, and closing high-value SaaS opportunities. If you enjoy uncovering business challenges, delivering consultative solutions, and competing to win new business, you'll be a great fit for this role.
What you’ll do:
- Serve as the primary point of contact and fully manage an Enterprise territory account list
- Achieve sales goals and meet activity quota requirements
- Prospect for self-generated opportunities within your book of business for highly qualified and credible pipeline and respond to inbound demo requests
- Demo Muck Rack at meetings, on calls and at events
- Negotiate contracts and close deals
How success will be measured in this role:
- Individual revenue goal
- Pipeline generation and prospecting activity
- Metrics such as ACV, qualified win rate, and cross sell attachment
If the details below describe you, you could be a great fit for this role:
- 5+ years of quota-carrying Account Executive experience selling media intelligence, media monitoring, social listening, communications technology, reputation management, or related insights platforms
- Demonstrated success selling SaaS solutions to PR, communications, corporate affairs, public relations, marketing, and insights stakeholders
- Experience in a full-cycle sales role, including prospecting, pipeline generation, territory management, opportunity management, and closing new business
- Consistent track record of meeting or exceeding quota in a SaaS sales environment
- Self-motivated, competitive, and driven by results
- Invested in continuous professional development and growth as a sales professional and industry expert
- Natural relationship builder who is personable, patient, dependable, and skilled at establishing trust with prospective customers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging prospects via email, phone, social media, and executive-level presentations
- Dedicated to understanding customer challenges and aligning solutions to business outcomes
- Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles with executive buyers and cross-functional decision-making committees
- Ability to coordinate internal resources, including subject matter experts, product specialists, and sales support personnel throughout the sales process
- Experience successfully selling subscription-based software platforms and associated services
- Familiarity with tools such as Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Gong, CPQ systems, Slack, and Google Workspace, with a willingness to quickly learn new technologies
- Proactively incorporate AI tools into day to day work to improve productively and accelerate delivery
Interview Overview
Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Peer interviews with several team members
- 30-minute executive interview
- 30-minute Bar Raiser
Travel & Team Engagement Expectations
This role requires up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events. As part of our commitment to building strong connections across our fully distributed team, attendance at our annual company offsite (typically held in Mexico) is expected.
Salary
In the US, the base salary for this role is $80,000 and $100,000+ with on target earnings of $175,000+. Note that we typically build 1-3 quarters of ramp time with lower goals and thus lower earnings from commissions. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.
Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
Why Muck Rack?
Remote Work, Forever
- Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup
- Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership
- Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions)
Transparent & Fair Compensation
- Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S.
- Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment
- Standardized bonus or commission structure
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- Equity opportunities
Health & Wellness
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans
- 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program
- Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits
- Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription
Time Off & Family Benefits
- 4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days
- 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Learning and Development
- Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion
- Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training
- Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly
- 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development
Inclusive, Customer-First Culture
- Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives
- Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation
- Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide
Note: Benefits and compensation reflect offerings for U.S.-based employees. Support is provided for employees in other locations, in compliance with local laws and regulations.
While we are a fully distributed team, we do have limitations on where we can hire and maintain a list of acceptable working locations based on job function. If we are unable to hire in your current location for the role for which you applied, you will be notified via email. While we enjoy many benefits as a permanently distributed and remote company, we cannot always support relocation or extended travel and have guidelines in place to ensure compliant work away from your designated permanent residence.
Please note: For detailed information regarding our GDPR and/or CCPA compliance policies, including how we handle personal data and privacy rights, kindly refer to the email correspondence accompanying this application.
Muck Rack does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or any other third parties. Any unsolicited resume sent to Muck Rack will be considered Muck Rack property, and Muck Rack will not pay a fee should it hire the subject of any unsolicited resume.
Muck Rack considers applicants for all positions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs, and without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, familial status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Note to applicants/job seekers: We have recently been made aware of scams impersonating Muck Rack’s HR team. Please be cautious of these attempts to elicit banking or other financial or sensitive information. Muck Rack will never request financial information during the interview process, and follow ups for interviews or next steps will always come from an ‘@muckrack.com’ email address. If you are contacted by anyone from a different domain who claims to be from Muck Rack, please forward the communication to .
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