Full-Time

Enterprise Account Executive

Posted on 9/8/2025

Twilio

Twilio

5,001-10,000 employees

Cloud communications platform with APIs

No salary listed

United Kingdom

Hybrid

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Requirements
  • 9+ years of Enterprise Sales experience and a track record of personally selling and closing complex solutions to enterprise and software companies.
  • Strong experience identifying, mapping and prospecting enterprise accounts
  • Proven success in selling complex, technical solutions such as cloud communications platforms, APIs, Conversational AI and/or enterprise software
  • Experience in account management, developing large enterprise clients, and a history of meeting or exceeding sales targets
  • Experience working with Fortune 500 or similarly large enterprises
  • Background in working within a quota-driven environment with proven ability to close high-value deals (e.g., six to seven figures)
  • Expertise in solution-based selling or consultative selling
  • Strong negotiation and contract management skills, including handling complex deals with long sales cycles.
  • Prospecting and lead generation skills—ability to develop a pipeline through multiple channels, including direct sales, partnerships, and networking.
  • Ability to build and nurture relationships with C-level executives, decision-makers, cross-functional partners and key stakeholders in large enterprises
  • Strong presentation and negotiation skills
  • Comfortable working in a dynamic / environment.
  • Experience selling both to a business and technical audience
  • Familiar working with MEDDPICC sales qualification methodology and other Sales methodologies
  • Understanding of the CPaaS & Customer Engagement ecosystem and familiarity with: Cloud communications (voice, SMS, chat, video, etc.).
  • Contact centre agent productivity and Conversational AI
Responsibilities
  • Be responsible for new customer acquisition and driving ACV for a specific set of accounts while maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Master creating pricing proposals, negotiating terms and managing the contract process. Ideally, you also have experience selling communications solutions to a technical and business audience, building trust and mutual respect with technical customers and peers.
  • Are passionate about what you do and you are able to think outside of the box and have extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills to make complex contractual, technical, and financial details sound simple.
  • Able to balance challenging priorities and handle multiple projects/deals at the same time.
Desired Qualifications
  • APIs and integrations for communication services.
  • Telecommunications industry dynamics.
  • Knowledge of enterprise technology architecture and the technical needs of large organizations, including how CPaaS solutions integrate with existing systems.

Twilio provides a cloud communications platform that offers APIs to add voice, messaging, video, and email into software applications. Developers use these APIs to build and scale communication features directly inside their apps. The product works by making it easy to program communications: you send calls or messages through API requests, manage video sessions, and integrate email, all on a pay-as-you-go basis that scales with usage. Twilio stands out from competitors by focusing on developer-friendly APIs that cover multiple channels in one platform, supporting customers from startups to large enterprises with global reach and optional consulting services. The company’s goal is to help any business communicate with customers at scale by providing reliable, programmable communications across channels.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2008

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Voice AI revenue surged 60% year-over-year in Q4 2025 amid call-center automation demand.
  • Dollar-based net expansion rate hit 114% in Q1 2026, driving existing customer spending.
  • Q1 2026 revenue reached $1.41 billion, up 20%, with raised full-year guidance to 15%.

What critics are saying

  • MessageBird undercuts Twilio's SMS and voice pricing by 40%, eroding SMB market share.
  • Amazon Connect's free tier absorbs 25% of Twilio's AWS-hosted messaging volume immediately.
  • EU Digital Communications Act raises data retention costs 30%, slashing EU margins by 5-7 points by July 2026.

What makes Twilio unique

  • Twilio's Customer Engagement Platform unifies voice, messaging, video, and email via APIs.
  • Conversation Memory persists customer history across all channels for seamless AI orchestration.
  • Flex SDK embeds contact center capabilities directly into apps with Salesforce Agentforce integration.

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Benefits

Vacation: Twilio offers generous annual time off in all countries for you to enjoy.

Healthcare: We are dedicated to helping our employees live longer and healthier lives through comprehensive health programs.

Retirement: Twilio cares about your retirement! We offer programs to help our employees plan for their retirement needs.

Family leave: At Twilio we recognize the importance of family. We offer generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves, as well as family medical care leave.

Earn your stripes: Build and present a Twilio app to earn your Twilio track jacket and receive $30 per month for e‑books for continued learning and education.

Catered meals: We provide a variety of snacks, drinks, and catered meals in each of our locations.

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Yahoo Finance
Mar 30th, 2026
Twilio shares drop 15% in 3 months despite AI profitability gains and $830M cash from operations

Twilio has experienced recent share price declines of 5% over one day and 15% over three months, though 12-month total shareholder return remains positive at 21.2%. The stock currently trades at $119.99, slightly above its estimated fair value of $118.66. The company reported strong Q3 results, with revenue up 10% year-over-year and forward EBITDA growth of 51% versus the sector's 6%. Non-GAAP operating margin reached 16.1%, up 290 basis points year-over-year. Twilio has $830 million in cash from operations, more than seven times the IT sector median. The company is integrating AI throughout its communications platform, including a recent partnership with OpenAI's real-time API for conversational virtual agents. Analysts indicate an intrinsic discount of 24.7%, suggesting potential value despite recent weakness.

Business Wire
Mar 24th, 2026
Twilio appoints ex-Workday co-president Doug Robinson to board

Twilio has appointed Doug Robinson to its board of directors, effective immediately. Robinson previously served as co-president of Workday, where he spent 15 years helping transform the company into a multibillion-dollar industry leader whilst overseeing global go-to-market efforts. Robinson brings decades of experience in scaling global organisations and driving operational excellence. At Workday, he was responsible for GTM efforts across all industries and markets. He also previously held positions at PeopleSoft and Oracle, and currently sits on the board of Varicent. Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler said Robinson's expertise will prove invaluable as the company focuses on becoming a foundational infrastructure platform for the AI era and transforming its go-to-market organisation.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 22nd, 2026
Televox expands RCS deployment on Twilio for regulated healthcare messaging

Televox, part of WestCX under West Technology Group, has expanded its deployment of Twilio-powered Rich Communication Services for secure messaging in regulated industries like healthcare. The move embeds Twilio deeper into high-value, compliant customer workflows where verified sender identities are critical. The development reinforces Twilio's omnichannel growth strategy, particularly following its RCS business messaging rollout with KPN in the Netherlands. However, questions remain about whether these premium use cases can offset margin pressure from carrier fees and a messaging-heavy revenue mix. Twilio's revenue narrative projects $5.9 billion in revenue and $449.9 million in earnings by 2028, requiring 7.9% annual revenue growth. Optimistic analysts view the RCS expansion as supporting Twilio's position as an AI and compliance infrastructure provider, though concerns persist about compliance costs impacting margins.

Business Wire
Mar 4th, 2026
Twilio and KPN bring RCS business messaging to the Netherlands powered by Google

Twilio has partnered with KPN Netherlands to enable nationwide Rich Communication Services Business Messaging across all major mobile operators in the Netherlands, powered by Google. The deployment marks complete operator support for RCS Business Messaging in the country. RCS Business Messaging combines SMS reach with interactive features including verified sender identity, images, carousels and action buttons. The platform is supported by Google's RCS for Business, with iOS support expected in 2026. Through Twilio, businesses can add RCS as a branded channel alongside SMS and MMS without code changes, with automatic fallback to SMS when needed. The nationwide coverage provides access to millions of mobile users, positioning the Netherlands as one of Europe's newest fully enabled RCS Business Messaging markets.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 2nd, 2026
Needham reiterates buy rating on Twilio with $145 price target after Q4 beats expectations

Needham reiterated its Buy rating on Twilio with a $145 price target following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report. Twilio posted earnings per share of $1.33, exceeding analyst expectations of $1.23, whilst revenue reached $1.37 billion against projected $1.32 billion. The communications software company reported 12% organic revenue growth in Q4, surpassing its midpoint guidance of 10%. Needham highlighted Twilio's voice business as a key growth driver and praised its optimised go-to-market strategy and strong partner performance. Twilio announced a fiscal year 2027 operating income target of $1.23 billion, representing 17% growth over its fiscal year 2025 guidance. For 2026, the company provided initial guidance of 8.5% organic revenue growth.

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