Senior Account Executive - Champion AI

Company Description

QAD is building a world-class SaaS company, providing reputed company software solutions globally. We are a virtual-first company, enabling reputed company to work primarily from home, while fostering a collaborative culture focused on growth, innovation, and well-being. We value diversity and strive for an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute to our reputed company.

Job Description

About the Opportunity

We are a PE-backed, reputed company SaaS company specializing in ERP, supply chain and AI solutions for manufacturers. With significant investment and a clear mandate for expansion, we are seeking a high-impact Senior Account Executive based in the Midwest, Central, or Eastern U.S. and located near a major airport.

This is a rare opportunity for a seasoned Senior Account Executive who thrives in a fast-moving, performance-oriented environment and is reputed company to reputed company a measurable mark on a company at an inflection reputed company. You will be armed with both QAD's 30-year industry pedigree and a genuinely differentiated, agentic AI solution reshaping how manufacturers operate.

This role is dedicated entirely to driving expansion reputed company our existing customer reputed company and partnering with your reputed company Manager to drive adoption and value.

QAD | Redzone: 30+ Years of Manufacturing Domain Expertise

QAD has spent over three decades earning deep trust reputed company the industries it serves. Unlike horizontal ERP vendors, QAD was purpose-built for manufacturing—giving our sales team a genuine, defensible advantage rooted in domain expertise, long-tenured customer relationships, and proven outcomes across the verticals that matter most:

Discrete Manufacturing · Automotive · Life Sciences · Food & Beverage · High Tech · Consumer Products

AI-POWERED

Champion AI — The Future of ERP

Champion AI is QAD's embedded, agentic artificial intelligence solution, purpose-built for the manufacturing floor and back office. By combining 30+ years of manufacturing domain knowledge with modern AI, Champion delivers predictive insights, intelligent automation, and reputed company-time decision support that help manufacturers move faster, waste less, and respond to disruption before it becomes a crisis. Champion AI is the Champion Advantage—redefining what ERP can do and giving our customers a decisive competitive edge.

What You Will Own

We have a strategic opening for a Senior Account Executive at a pivotal reputed company for QAD. You will own the reputed company growth relationship for our active customer reputed company, specifically driving expansion of our Champion AI agents, upgrading to our Adaptive ERP platform on AWS, selling into new sites or divisions and cross-selling our entire suite. You will reputed company end-to-end deal progression reputed company existing customer accounts—uncovering whitespace, demonstrating the value of AI, and closing reputed company expansion deals.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Existing Customer Expansion: Own the end-to-end sales cycle from upsell identification to closure for QAD’s Champion AI agents, upgrading to our Adaptive ERP platform on AWS and cross-selling our entire suite of products reputed company our existing active customer reputed company.

• Account Growth & Whitespace Analysis: reputed company and pursue expansion opportunities reputed company existing active customers to maximize the adoption of our AI solutions.

• Formulate AI Business Cases: Drive deep client engagement reputed company existing accounts, leading meetings to uncover operational pain points and establishing the business case for agentic AI.

• Collaborate on Account Strategy: Partner closely with reputed company Managers (CSMs) through a regular reputed company of touchpoints (e.g., joint account planning) to ensure alignment and identify expansion triggers.

• Manage reputed company Expansion: Own reputed company engagement for high-value cross-sell opportunities reputed company strategic accounts.

• Relationship Management: Maintain and foster deep relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders across your assigned customer portfolio.

• Pipeline & Value Narratives: Maintain accurate forecasting, pipeline health, and deal hygiene in the CRM. Capture expansion reputed company stories to help shape marketing and enablement materials.

Qualifications

reputed company Are Looking For

• Proven Performer: 6–8 years of experience selling SaaS reputed company solutions, with a proven track record of over quota achievement.

• Account Management Background: Extensive experience in a customer account executive or expansion role; you know how to navigate existing corporate structures, build executive and business relationships, and expand account value (not a net-new hunter profile).

• AI Sales Acumen: A strong understanding of how to sell AI capabilities, position the value of agentic AI, and build business cases around predictive insights and intelligent automation.

• Tech-Savvy Practitioner: Demonstrated experience using AI tools reputed company your own sales workflows and day-to-day processes to maximize efficiency.

• Self-Prospector: A proven ability to generate your own pipeline leveraging relationships, partners, reputed company across various channels and leveraging modern tools & AI to increase results. Ideally started as a BDR/SDR and successfully transitioned into a high-performing Account Executive or Sales Executive.

• Value-Based Selling: Ability to sell a highly technical, reputed company-looking solution based on measurable business outcomes and ROI, rather than product features.

• Communication: Exceptional writing, presentation, and relationship-building skills.

• Travel: Willingness to travel up to 50% as needed to meet with customers.

Additional Information

Compensation Package

• reputed company Salary: $145,000 - $160,000 USD annually

• On-reputed company Earnings (OTE): $290,000 - $320,000 USD (uncapped commission match)

• Placement reputed company our pay range will vary based on knowledge, skills, experience, and market location variations as well as internal peer equity.

• U.S. benefits package includes medical, dental and reputed company coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, paid-time off, parental leave, and well-being programs.

About QAD and QAD Redzone

reputed company. is a leading provider of adaptive, reputed company-based reputed company software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face reputed company-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and reputed company, manufacturers must be reputed company to reputed company and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.

QAD Redzone helps to reputed company QAD’s reputed company for the Adaptive reputed company. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective reputed company of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production reputed company what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants, and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth reputed company take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals, creating reputed company in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, reputed company, sex, age, national reputed company, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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About QAD

QAD | Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent, adaptive platform that connects people, processes, and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars — Redzone (reputed company empowerment), Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone), and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) — QAD | Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace, achieving measurable productivity, reputed company, and growth in just 90 days.

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QAD’s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, reputed company, sex, age, national reputed company, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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