Open Text Corp logo

Sr. Account Executive

Open Text Corp

  • CA
  • 2 days ago
  • $134,000–$201,000 Per Year

Highlights

Partnering closely with Client Executives and account teams, you will create, shape, and win opportunities by demonstrating the business value of OpenText solutions and aligning them to client priorities. Salary Range: $134K - $201K; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

Numbers & Facts

LocationCA
IndustryComputer Software
Salary$134,000–$201,000 Per Year
Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
Year Founded1991
Websitehttp://www.opentext.com/

Description

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do-powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can''t replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Strategic Solution Sales Executive

(Content / Business Network / Cybersecurity / ITOM / Digital Experience)

Your Impact

As a Strategic Solution Sales Executive, you will be a quota-carrying sales representative responsible for driving growth across your solution portfolio within a defined set of strategic accounts. Partnering closely with Client Executives and account teams, you will create, shape, and win opportunities by demonstrating the business value of OpenText solutions and aligning them to client priorities.

You will identify, qualify, and develop solution-specific opportunities that support broader account strategies and business objectives. By leveraging your industry and solution expertise, you will uncover whitespace opportunities, articulate value, and help clients understand how OpenText can accelerate their transformation initiatives.

Working closely with Client Executives, Solution Consultants, Value Engineers, Professional Services, and partners, you will lead solution strategy throughout the sales cycle. You will guide opportunity qualification, competitive positioning, and deal execution while ensuring strong pipeline discipline and forecast accuracy.

As a trusted advisor, you will serve as a subject matter expert for both clients and internal stakeholders. You will bring market insight, share field intelligence, and influence solution strategy while helping build momentum across complex, multi-solution opportunities.

Success in this role includes:

  • Driving solution-specific pipeline creation and bookings growth.
  • Contributing meaningfully to account expansion and revenue growth.
  • Consistently advancing opportunities through the sales cycle and improving win rates.
  • Maintaining strong pipeline quality and forecast accuracy.
  • Influencing and supporting successful multi-solution deals across strategic accounts.
  • Being recognized as a trusted advisor by clients and internal stakeholders.

What the Role Offers

OpenText is a global leader in Information Management, helping organizations transform the way they manage, secure, and leverage information.

This role offers the opportunity to:

  • Drive strategic growth within some of OpenText's most important enterprise accounts.
  • Leverage deep domain expertise across Content, Business Network, Cybersecurity, ITOM, or Digital Experience solutions.
  • Partner with Client Executives and cross-functional teams to lead complex, high-value solution sales opportunities.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and technical stakeholders while helping organizations solve critical business challenges.
  • Work alongside Solution Consultants, Value Engineers, Professional Services teams, and partners to deliver business outcomes for clients.
  • Influence solution strategy, share market insights, and help shape the success of large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

At OpenText, you will work with innovative technology, world-class sales professionals, and some of the largest organizations in the world. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, flexible work options, and significant opportunities for career growth and development.

What You Need to Succeed

  • Proven success in enterprise software, cloud, SaaS, cybersecurity, or information management sales.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex solution-based sales cycles within large enterprise accounts.
  • Ability to build credibility with executive stakeholders and technical decision-makers.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technology capabilities into business outcomes.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Experience working within a matrixed, cross-functional sales organization.
  • Completed post-secondary education and a passion for continuous learning.

OpenText''s commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a ticket at Ask HR. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText''s vibrant workplace.

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we're happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $134K - $201K; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

California Residents: The pay range above is a reasonable estimate of salary based on pay scale, candidate experience, skills, and education. In addition to the comprehensive benefits noted above, the role may be eligible for bonus or commissions.

AI Usage Disclosure: As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.

About Company

Who We Are

OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Our EIM products enable businesses to grow faster, lower operational costs, and reduce information governance and security risks by improving business insight, impact and process speed.

Our Promise to our Customers

OpenText strives to...

  • enrich the way people use information
  • foster innovation
  • be trusted in our relationships
  • be committed to excellence in all that we do
  • work with our stakeholders, demonstrating honesty and passion towards common goals

Working at OpenText

There are several reasons for our top employer awards. Here are a few:

We’re a world class company.

At OpenText, we offer the stability of a blue chip and the spirit of a start-up.

OpenText launched in 1991 as a small spin-off company from the University of Waterloo in Canada. Twenty-two years later, we’re a truly global company with more than 8200 employees in over 140 offices around the world.

Working for OpenText means working for a truly global, world-class company with a solid customer base, stable cash flow, and the resources to execute well. We’ve grown to $1.3B annual revenue in 2013. And, most impressive has been our consistent upward growth, steered by an experienced leadership team.

We have an entrepreneurial culture.

While we’re big in many ways, we’ve maintained an entrepreneurial culture common to many technology company “start-ups”. We drive hard to achieve excellence. We value innovation, creativity, and collaboration.We welcome new opportunities and learn to pivot. It’s all about being smart, fast, and responsive to our customers.

Our values direct us.

Our values ensure we deliver on our mission and vision every day. Our values guide our actions with all of our stakeholders. It’s the OpenText way.

  • Customer: We need to obsess over our customers and ensure they are wildly successful.
  • Trust: Our customers entrust us with their most competitive information, we need to be their most trusted partner
  • Excellence: What we do, we do well. The highest form of excellence is mastery
  • Innovation: What we create, we do purposefully to impact the world.
  • Best Place to Work: We spend far too much time at work for it not to drive personal meaning. We need to leverage the collective genius and have the courage to shape a better future. Nothing is off the table.

Diversity makes us strong.

At OpenText, we serve customers of many cultures in many different countries.

We embrace diversity because we believe the best products, solutions, and customer service results from a workplace in which varied viewpoints are welcomed and encouraged. The wide-ranging backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our employees are a powerful competitive advantage and crucial to our continued business success.

We are committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce. We are also committed to fostering an environment - one in which the best people can do their best work and reach their full potential. This outcome is achieved in a work environment characterized by respect for lifestyle, cultural, and ethnic differences.

We have you covered.

We take care of our employees. We offer a generous compensation and benefits plan that is competitive to your position, responsibilities, and region of the world.

We’re an equal opportunity employer.

OpenText is an equal opportunity employer that recruits and hires world-class talent regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Similar Jobs