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About the role

  • Senior Account Executive winning new municipal utility customers for Advanced Utility Systems’ CIS Infinity platform. Shaping RFPs, leading enterprise pursuits, and accelerating AI-assisted sales.

Responsibilities

  • Win new municipal utility customers for the CIS Infinity platform and related products
  • Own a new-logo quota across North American municipal electric, water, wastewater, and gas utilities
  • Build target account plans identifying buying signals such as aging CIS platforms, contract expirations, leadership changes, and budget cycles
  • Develop relationships with utility managers, finance directors, customer service leaders, IT leaders, and city or board decision makers
  • Conduct discovery and connect operational pain to defensible business cases
  • Apply MEDDPICC to qualify opportunities, manage the funnel, and maintain accurate pipeline and forecasts
  • Report on pursuit health, win rates, and lessons from lost deals
  • Engage prospects during needs assessment, budget planning, and consultant selection to shape RFP requirements
  • Build relationships with utility consultants, procurement officers, and consulting firms
  • Make bid or no-bid recommendations for RFPs
  • Own RFP responses from kickoff to submission and coordinate product, professional services, and finance contributors
  • Lead finalist demonstrations, reference calls, oral presentations, and best-and-final negotiations through contract signature
  • Informally mentor a new sales team member, sales engineer, or sales intern
  • Support account research, RFP preparation, discovery calls, demonstrations, and live pursuits
  • Share sales learnings with leadership as the team expands in 2027 and 2028
  • Use AI to analyze RFPs, extract requirements, draft responses, build proposals, research accounts, map stakeholders, prepare demonstrations, and create closing plans
  • Work with sales leadership and R&D to document effective AI-assisted practices
  • Measure AI process results using hours saved, proposal quality, bid volume, and win rate
  • Travel approximately 50% as needed

Requirements

  • Five or more years of quota-carrying software sales experience
  • Recent track record selling CIS, billing, or other enterprise software to municipal utilities or comparable public sector buyers
  • History of new-logo success; experience must not mainly be renewals, upsells, or install base expansion
  • Demonstrated experience with public sector procurement, including RFP response, bid or no-bid decisions, evaluation scoring, orals, and contract negotiation
  • Ability to influence buying processes before RFP issuance through consultant relationships, requirement shaping, and executive sponsorship
  • Strong relationship-building credibility among utility managers, finance leaders, and board or council members
  • Ability to produce or direct executive summaries, differentiated technical responses, and pricing narratives
  • Willingness to mentor a new sales team member informally and work effectively with a sales engineer or demo specialist
  • Commitment to learn and consistently apply MEDDPICC
  • Curiosity and hands-on initiative with AI tools
  • Willingness to travel to prospect sites, conferences, and finalist presentations
  • Current, valid passport
  • Legally eligible to travel internationally, including required visa exemption or travel visas for Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean
  • Preference for candidates who can work in EST timezone
  • Knowledge of the meter-to-cash cycle and municipal utility challenges is an advantage
  • Existing network among North American municipal utilities, utility associations, and utility consulting firms is an advantage
  • Experience selling against established CIS competitors and displacing a legacy platform is an advantage
  • Prior MEDDPICC, MEDDIC, or Challenger knowledge is an advantage
  • Familiarity with CRM, pursuit management, and proposal automation tools is an advantage

Benefits

  • 3 weeks’ vacation and 5 personal days
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits starting from your first day of employment
  • Employee stock ownership and RRSP/401k matching programs
  • Lifestyle rewards
  • Remote work
  • Leadership development available to those who succeed and want it

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$85,000 - $95,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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