Lightcast

Associate Account Executive (Enterprise - sales) - 1002

Lightcast  •  Moscow, ID (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

The Account Executive is a true sales hunter, responsible for driving new business and generating opportunities within the private sector. This role oversees the planning, development, and execution of sales strategies for a defined portfolio of accounts, with a primary focus on building pipeline and closing net-new deals. As part of Lightcast’s mission to deliver best-in-class workforce analytics, the Account Executive engages organizations with a consultative, data-driven approach to uncover challenges and deliver unexpected value. They cultivate long-term partnerships while consistently meeting and exceeding sales goals.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Consistently meet or exceed sales targets for revenue, market share, and other key performance objectives.
  • Identify, pursue, and close sales opportunities by effectively managing the full sales cycle—from prospecting and qualifying, to presenting solutions, negotiating, and closing deals.
  • Maintain a disciplined and consultative approach to selling, engaging prospects and clients to understand their challenges and demonstrate how Lightcast solutions create value.
  • Manage a defined sales territory and pipeline with accuracy, leveraging CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce, SalesLoft) to forecast, document activities, and ensure visibility across opportunities.
  • Cultivate and grow customer relationships through renewals, upselling, and cross-selling, ensuring long-term client success and loyalty.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders—including legal, product, and customer success teams—to execute deals, deliver exceptional client experiences, and achieve shared outcomes.
  • Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills in presentations, calls, and meetings, representing Lightcast as a trusted partner in labor market analytics.
  • Stay organized and adaptable while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, competitive, and collaborative sales culture.
  • Continuously develop sales skills, product knowledge, and market expertise to deliver best-in-class customer value and contribute to team growth.

Education and Experience:

  • 0-1 years of experience in sales, business development, recruiting, or customer-facing roles
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the comfort level to engage prospects at all organizational levels.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, stay organized, and meet goals in a fast-paced environment.
  • Familiarity with CRM tools highly desirable
  • Self-motivated and coachable with a genuine curiosity about workforce analytics and labor market data
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with our headquarters located in Moscow, ID (US) and other offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India.  We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.
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About Lightcast

We're creating a labor market that works for everyone.

People are the most important part of any organization, which means its highest priority must be understanding its workforce. Lightcast enables faster, better decisions by making labor market data accessible and useful for enterprise, education, and the public sector.

In a fast-changing world of work, Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) provides clarity. Our global data—available through software, consulting, and data delivery—provides specific, practical, unique insights to guide your most important decisions.

Whether you're an enterprise mapping your workforce's future, an educator preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet, or a government agency building economic resilience—we deliver the insights that matter.

Lightcast pioneered the collection and big-data analysis of information on the labor market. We have the world’s most comprehensive database of job postings, which has been refined by AI and human experts to provide insights clearly and quickly.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Moscow, Idaho
Year Founded
2000
Website
lightcast.io
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