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A Day In The Life of a Junior Account Executive

Responsibilities

  • Prospect for new customer leads, navigate past gatekeepers, and find the decision-makers leveraging phone and technology tools
  • Create opportunities and book demos with new and existing customer leads
  • Lead product demos that are engaging, insightful, and challenging with the goal of registering small and medium-sized medical practices excited to use Cherry
  • Engage medical practices that you register through timely outreach leveraging your sales tech stack to help them experience success with Cherry right away
  • Keep your data clean and up-to-date by logging all interactions, notes, demo dispositions, and forecasts in Salesforce
  • Take the initiative to continuously improve your sales approach from prospecting to closing by seeking feedback, learning new sales methods, and experimenting with new ideas
  • Be a team player give and accept feedback, collaborate with your colleagues, lead a team project, and seek to lift every member of your team to greatness
  • Travel and attend industry events and trade shows as needed
  • Take ownership and accountability of your own success

The average salary for an account executive in the United States ranges from $25,700 to $600,000, with a median salary of $98,000: 
  • Talent.com: $80,000 per year or $38.46 per hour
  • Salary.com: $104,303 as of October 25, 2023
  • ZipRecruiter: $76,286 a year as of October 31, 2023
The middle 50% of account executives make between $75,000 and $97,000, with the top 83% making $600,000. Entry-level positions start at $52,635 per year, while most experienced workers make up to $137,792 per year. 
The average salary for women is $105,141 and the average salary for men is $95,284. 
Some of the highest paying companies for account executives include: Aisera, OutSystems, WeWork, Google Cloud. 
Interested in becoming an Account Executive? Find out about AE Life from Ollie and his daily experiences in “A Day In The Life of a Junior Account Executive” .
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