Senior Account Executive - Tableau, Public Sector

Own Company
Own Company

Sales & Business Development

McLean, VA, USA

Posted on Jun 20, 2026

Description

About Tableau

Tableau is as much a philosophy as an amazing suite of tools. We enable people to transform data into something visual and understandable, empowering important decisions based on real insights. Our products have been instrumental in fighting Malaria, Ebola, and COVID-19 by providing medical professionals with critical data on disease spread.

About This Role

Our State & Local Government Sales Team is seeking talented, self-directed sales professionals to join our rapidly growing team. As the fastest-growing line of business within Salesforce, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future by driving customer success and supporting the missions of our top Government accounts. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, team sales environment and consistently delivers on revenue targets.

Day to Day

Our Enterprise Business team works with our most strategic customers — organizations of 10,000+ employees. You will work in a fast-paced environment, receive personalized training, and have access to meaningful career development opportunities.

  • Build positive, trusted relationships with key team members and C-suite decision makers

  • Develop opportunities through both warm leads and whitespace prospecting

  • Drive customer satisfaction and develop key stakeholder relationships at assigned accounts

  • Build and drive the overall long-term account strategy, aligned to customer business objectives

  • Coordinate internal Salesforce resources to meet customer business needs

  • Perform account planning, coordinating with Prime and Cloud sales resources to ensure strategic alignment

  • Share the Salesforce value proposition with existing and prospective customers

  • Drive growth within an existing assigned account

Preferred Qualifications

  • 10+ years of full cycle sales experience, with at least 5 years in Enterprise Sales

  • Proven management of large, complex key accounts

  • Ability to strategize with a large extended team

  • Experience evaluated on core competencies, including extracurricular leadership, military experience, volunteer roles, and work history

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.