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Strategic Business Development Executive

KLDiscovery
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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Key Responsibilities:

  • Prospect, identify, and qualify net-new and current enterprise accounts across law firms, corporations, and government entities within an assigned territory.
  • Build and maintain a robust personal pipeline through outbound prospecting, networking, referrals, retention, and partnership with Marketing and Sales Development.
  • Manage complex, multi-month sales cycles from initial contact through close, engaging stakeholders across Legal, IT, Privacy, Procurement, and Finance.
  • Develop and deliver tailored value propositions, presentations, and proposals that address client business and legal challenges.
  • Negotiate pricing, scope, and contract terms within approved commercial guidelines, defending value rather than discounting.
  • Achieve or exceed an assigned individual new-logo revenue target of $5M in annual contract value.
  • Maintain accurate and timely records of activity, pipeline, and forecasts in Salesforce, sustaining healthy pipeline coverage.
  • Partner with Client Success and Delivery to ensure flawless onboarding and a strong foundation for future expansion of newly signed accounts.
  • Represent KLDiscovery at industry conferences and events (e.g., Legalweek, ILTACON), building brand presence and relationships.
  • Provide field and competitive intelligence to Product and leadership to inform packaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.

Qualifications:

  • Required
  • 10+ years of B2B enterprise sales experience in legal technology and/or services with a sustained record of personally attaining or exceeding individual annual quotas of at least $5M.
  • Deep knowledge of the legal technology, eDiscovery, or litigation-support industry.
  • Demonstrated success in new-logo acquisition and client retention personally sourcing and closing net-new enterprise accounts, not solely growing an inherited book of business.
  • Experience managing complex, enterprise sales cycles (3–12+ months) involving multiple decision-makers across Procurement, IT, Privacy, and Legal.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce executive-level proposals and presentations.
  • Proficiency with Salesforce or comparable CRM systems and modern sales tooling.
  • Willingness to travel for client meetings and industry events.
  • Preferred
  • Understanding of legal workflows, including litigation, regulatory and internal investigations, compliance, and antitrust / second requests.
  • Background in professional services or technology-enabled services sales.
  • Familiarity with adjacent offerings such as cyber incident response, information governance, and managed review.
  • Prior experience in a private-equity-backed or high-growth organization.
  • Education
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, JD, or equivalent qualification preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, JD, or equivalent qualification preferred.

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