
Senior Account Manager - Software Sales
Remote · USFull-time$120–140K/yrPosted 4w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Motorola Solutions seeks a Senior Account Executive to develop new software accounts across an established territory. The role focuses on selling safety software to public safety organizations, state and local government agencies, and K-12 school districts. The successful candidate builds relationships, develops strategic sales plans, and closes new business while managing territory growth, pipeline, and account expansion. Travel within the assigned territory is required.
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Full job description
Company Overview At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview Responsible for new software accounts development within an established geographic territory/product line. Job Description Prominent, highly visible Senior Account Executive role with a rapidly growing safety software solutions company. You must have prior success selling conceptual services to Managers, Director’s, and Executive level decision makers in a competitive marketplace. You excel at building relationships and closing new business with Public Safety Organizations, State and Local Government Agencies, and K-12 School Districts. You must be accountable and a consistent self- starter, with the ability to generate and execute on strategic sales plans to win new business across a multi-state territory.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of target buying personas, solution offering, and competitive landscape.
- Work collaboratively with the TVPs and ASMs to ensure that each territory grows top line sales, territory and account penetration, and portfolio mix by leveraging optimum account assignments and Manufacturing Representative partner coverage
- Prospect, identify, and qualify new opportunities.
- Build and maintain healthy pipeline.
- Demonstrated ability to sell to multiple buyers within an organization.
- Develop and manage a sales forecast & pipeline in order to exceed annual quotas and goals.
- Actively manage daily responsibilities to develop one’s territory such as cold calls, appointments, sales presentations, and proposals while demonstrating excellent time management skills.
- Drive account retention and expansion by owning the end-to-end client experience—cultivating strong long-term relationships, resolving day-to-day customer service inquiries, rapidly executing quote requests, and actively prospecting within assigned accounts to uncover new organic revenue streams
Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency in Salesforce or equivalent CRM systems to maintain strict funnel hygiene, opportunity forecasting, and account-mapping metrics
- Proven understanding of state, county, and local government buying behaviors, multi-stakeholder committee dynamics, and formal RFP/RFI procurement processes
- A self-starter with executive presence who has 5+ years of quota carrying software sales experience, preferably in the State and Local Government marketplace
- A proven track record of growing sales territories by developing and executing on a strategic sales plan. This includes direct sales initiatives as well as collaboration with channel partners and internal resources
- Prior experience with prospecting, discovery, pricing, quoting, negotiating, and closing deals
- A seller with experience selling into various customer profiles including 911, Emergency Management, Public Safety, County/City Executive Offices and K-12
- Prior familiarity or hands-on experience working with CAD (Computer-Aided Dispatch), RMS (Records Management Systems), or Jail Management Systems is highly valued
Travel:
- Travel is 50-75% within the assigned territory
Target Base Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000 USD On Target Earnings: $216,000 - $252,000 USD
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.
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Basic Requirements
- Bachelors Degree with 2+ years of experience in sales, customer success, military and/or public safety
- OR 4+ years of experience in sales, customer success, military and/or public safety
Travel Requirements 25-50% Relocation Provided None Position Type Experienced Referral Payment Plan Yes Our U.S. Benefits include:
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Incentive Bonus Plans
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Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
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401K with Company Match
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10 Paid Holidays
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Generous Paid Time Off Packages
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Paid Parental & Family Leave
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and more!
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,888 open Account Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–140K/yr
- Illinois median$94–137K/yr389 salary ranges
- US median$100–152K/yr8,060 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $130K, is 12% above the Illinois median midpoint ($116K) — in the middle half of Account Management salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 491 open Account Management jobs in Illinois and 11,888 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Account Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,093 postings).
- Education
- 2,892 of the 11,888 open Account Management jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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