Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Account Executive III posting stands out as a mid-market, full-cycle sales role within a SaaS platform selling into technical buying centers—IT operations, security, and DevOps. That combination is a common pattern in modern SaaS: value is proven through measurable outcomes, and credibility is built through consultative discovery and product-led demonstrations rather than purely relationship-based selling.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the role offers repeated exposure to the mechanics that travel well across vendors: territory ownership, pipeline creation, forecasting discipline, and running web-based demos. Working against a defined segment (companies under 1,500 employees) also tends to sharpen segmentation judgment—what qualifies, what stalls, and what converts—skills that map directly to later moves into enterprise selling, sales leadership, or revenue operations.
This position is best suited to a seller who prefers structured execution and clear accountability, and who is comfortable engaging technical stakeholders with enough fluency to earn time and progress deals. It will fit professionals who enjoy balancing outbound generation with process rigor, and who want their next step to deepen SaaS selling craft in a product area where buyer needs are often complex and multi-threaded.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Account Executive III
As a Mid-Market Account Executive, you will be working on reinforcing our leadership in the mid-market space. You should demonstrate skills associated with working in a high-performance sales culture, especially demonstrating pipeline management, lead generation, contact network development and delivering results against a quota.
The Mid-Market Account Executive team's charter is to provide the best sales experience possible to Sumo Logic’s mid-market segment customers. This Inside Sales team has a consultative sales approach, a track record of growing sales, demolishing quotas, and keeping customers happy and wanting to dive more into our product.
Responsibilities
- Target, manage and sell to a defined geographic territory with under 1,500 employees
- Own the full sales cycle, from prospecting to close, in order to fill Sumo Logic's pipeline
- Create and deliver accurate sales forecasts
- Perform product demos using web tools to prospect and customers
- Partner with internal resources to provide a stellar experience for prospective customers and ensure their needs are being met
Required Qualifications and Skills
- 3+ years of quota-carrying experience selling B2B applications; on-demand/SaaS, IT Infrastructure Management or Cloud Security offerings
- History of quota over-achievement selling to a technical audience like IT operations, Security, and DevOps teams
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, collaborative mindset a must
- Contact network within the Big Data ecosystem, highly preferred
- Salesforce power user
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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The expected annual base salary range for this position is $108,000 - $126,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offerings, and equity awards.
Must be authorized to work in the United States at time of hire and for duration of employment. At this time, we are not able to offer nonimmigrant visa sponsorship for this position.
