Senior Account Executive

Advanced Utility Systems, a division of Harris; is seeking a Senior Account Executive who is a proven new-business hunter ready to join our sales team. You will win new municipal utility customers for our CIS Infinity platform and the products around it. This role is not an account management or install base expansion position. We hire people who open doors, earn a seat at the table before the RFP exists, and carry a pursuit from first conversation to signed contract. Municipal utility buying decisions run through formal procurement. Boards, city councils, finance directors, and operations leaders all weigh in, and the RFP often decides the outcome. The Account Executive who wins in this market builds relationships early, understands what a utility is trying to fix, and helps shape the evaluation criteria before a competitor does. You will treat every RFP as a campaign that starts months before the document is published, not as a form to complete after it arrives. This is an individual contributor role, built to be rewarding and fulfilling as a career in its own right. It carries no formal management duties. It does offer an informal opportunity to mentor and develop a new sales team member who supports new customer acquisition, and to guide that person as an aide to your pursuit work. We plan to expand the sales team to grow faster in 2027 and 2028, and you will help shape how new sellers learn our market and our process. You will also set the pace for how our sales organization uses AI in RFP response, proposal writing, demonstrations, and closing. Leadership development is a possible path for people who succeed in the role and want it, but it is not a requirement of the job. The Profile We Recruit: A seasoned enterprise software hunter who has sold to municipal utilities and won. You earn business by building trust with public sector buyers over long cycles, and you can show the deals you opened, not the accounts you inherited. You see AI as a practical tool for winning more bids with less effort. This remote role welcomes candidates anywhere in Canada and the US. Travel is required as needed, approximately 50%. Candidates must hold a current, valid passport and be legally eligible to travel internationally. This includes either passport based visa exemption or possession of any required travel visas for entry into Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. Preference will be given to candidates who can work in EST timezone. Salary: 85K - 95K OTE including base: Up to 200K AI & Innovation Mindset We are committed to leveraging emerging technologies to improve how we work, serve our customers, and drive business outcomes. The successful candidate will demonstrate curiosity and a willingness to actively adopt and leverage AI tools to improve workflows, solve problems, and increase efficiency. Candidates should be comfortable using AI enabled technologies, including copilots, chat based AI assistants, and automation tools, as part of their everyday work while maintaining appropriate judgment, security, and compliance standards. What your impact will be: Win New Municipal Utility Accounts • Own a new-logo quota across North American municipal electric, water, wastewater, and gas utilities, with no install base farming responsibility. • Build and work a target account plan that identifies utilities with aging CIS platforms, upcoming contract expirations, leadership changes, and budget cycles that signal a buying window. • Develop relationships with the full buying group, including utility managers, finance directors, customer service leaders, IT leaders, and city or board decision makers. • Run disciplined discovery that connects a utility's operational pain, such as staff retirements, billing accuracy, call volume, and cost to serve, to a business case the buying committee can defend. • Apply MEDDPICC to qualify opportunities, manage the funnel, and maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast. Report on pursuit health, win rates, and lessons from lost deals. Shape RFPs Before They Are Written • Engage prospects early, during needs assessment, budget planning, and consultant selection, so that our platform capabilities inform the requirements a utility writes. • Build working relationships with utility consultants, procurement officers, and the consulting firms that often draft RFPs. • Make a disciplined bid or no-bid recommendation for every RFP, weighing fit, relationship strength, competitive position, and cost of pursuit. • Own the RFP response from kickoff to submission, and coordinate product, professional services, and finance contributors to meet deadlines with a compliant, persuasive proposal. • Lead orals, finalist demonstrations, reference calls, and best-and-final negotiations through contract signature. Mentor and Develop New Sales Talent • Mentor a new sales team member, including a sales engineer or sales intern, in an informal guidance role. You do not manage this person's performance, pay, or employment. • Bring that person into your pursuits as an aide, and give them real exposure to account research, RFP support, discovery calls, and demonstrations. • Show how you build relationships, qualify opportunities, and shape an RFP, so the person learns our approach to new customer acquisition by working on live deals. • Help prepare demonstrations that follow each utility's stated requirements and workflows, working alongside the sales engineering function. • Share what you learn with sales leadership, so the team can bring new sellers on faster as we grow in 2027 and 2028. Accelerate AI Adoption in the Sales Process • Use AI tools to analyze RFPs, extract requirements, draft compliant responses, and build tailored proposals in a fraction of the current cycle time. • Apply AI to account research, stakeholder mapping, demo preparation, and closing plans so that the team enters each meeting better prepared. • Work with sales leadership and R&D