Outbound Account Executive

Responsibilities

• Conduct high-volume outbound cold calls to prospective clients

• Identify and qualify potential leads and decision-makers

• Schedule meetings for the sales team with qualified prospects

• Execute multi-channel outreach campaigns including:

• Cold calling

• LinkedIn prospecting

• Email marketing

• SMS outreach

• Research target accounts and personalize outreach strategies

• Consistently meet or exceed outreach and meeting quotas

• Maintain accurate records of outreach activities in the CRM

• Collaborate with the sales team to improve messaging and conversion

• Continuously experiment with creative prospecting techniques

Requirements

• 1–3+ years experience in cold calling, SDR, lead generation, or outbound sales

• Comfortable making 50–100+ outbound calls daily

• Proactively pipeline, pitch, and push prospects all the way to signature & own the full sales cycle in a fast-paced startup environment
• Strong communication and persuasion skills

• Experience using LinkedIn for prospecting

• Familiarity with email outreach tools and CRM systems

• Highly resilient and comfortable handling rejection

• Strong research skills to identify the right prospects

• Self-motivated and results-driven

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate:

Has a hunter mentality

Loves outbound sales and prospecting

Is creative with outreach strategies

Is competitive and motivated by hitting targets

Thrives in a fast-paced sales environment

Originally posted on Himalayas