Now Hiring - Context Labs, Inc. - .Sales Executive – Energy Transition in Houston, TX

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Sales Executive - Energy Transition Houston, TX About this position: We're a rapidly growing team of creative problem solvers who leverage disruptive technology to crack the world's fundamental "too hard" challenges (such as decarbonization, water markets and food security). Want to have an impact working with smart, passionate people that push themselves, support each other and celebrate wins as a team? Context Labs is seeking a Sales Executive to build and maintain strong relationships with strategic customers and channel partners licensing Context Labs SaaS solutions. Context Labs SaaS offerings enable enterprises to achieve reliability and relevance in their ESG performance and reporting to match the rigor and trust in ISO certification and GAAP audits so that every company, investor, lender, and government can accelerate and scale its ESG impact and financial performance. You will be a producer; collaborating closely with prospects' multi- stakeholder teams to define requirements, priorities, risks, and outcomes and translate them into comprehensive proposals and closing documents. You will interface daily with Context Labs' senior leadership, sales engineering, and product marketing to define, negotiate, and close SaaS deals with enterprise accounts and strategic channel partners. You will close deals from our existing pipeline of opportunities and introduce new deals to grow our share in several markets including but not limited to: * Energy transition - differentiated energy commodities, renewables transition fuels * Carbon markets - nature-based solutions, industrial DAC (direct air capture) and CCS (carbon capture and sequestration) * Critical infrastructure - public and private * Climate finance - risk, insurance, lending, finance This position reports directly to the Chief Business Officer. In this role you will: * Engage existing partners and prospects to identify and qualify new opportunities to create value with Context Labs SaaS offerings. * Use industry and business knowledge to identify, qualify, and engage new prospects who can become strategic B2B enterprise accounts and / or channel partners licensing and deploying Context Labs SaaS in the channel. * Lead the Context Labs team through the discovery process from idea to use case, demonstration, and quoting, negotiating, and closing - initially in partnership with the CBO, and in time, as an independent producer * Lead the production of SaaS proposals including various forms of technical and commercial documentation that meet prospects' requirements to close. * Manage strategic accounts post-close through all requisite internal and external communications and documentation required to ensure: * technical and operational requirements are met for their specific instance of the Context Labs SaaS offering and * for internal or external Context Labs and client reporting * Work directly with the product management, marketing, sales, and professional services teams to maintain the highest understanding of Context Labs offerings and market opportunities and stay updated on the latest developments. * Build strong internal and external relationships with professionalism, courtesy, and positivity in alignment with the Context Labs mission. * Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company. Experience and Skills: * 5+ years of sales or business development experience in technology markets with significant climate exposure. * History of successfully closing enterprise sales deals * Superior communication skills - listening, speaking and writing. * Self-starter that can guide a deal through its complete lifecycle from prospect to close. * Outstanding ability to think on your feet. * Outstanding organizational skills to track, manage, contribute to, report on and regularly close deals. * Effectively able to maintain positive, collaborative relationships. * Interface effectively with multiple internal and external parties * Advanced utility with the Microsoft Office Suite * Experience writing proposals. * Working knowledge of climate issues and their impacts on companies and markets Preferred Experience * Sales or Business Development experience in technology markets in real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, or other markets with significant climate exposure * Experience using Salesforce and maintaining up to date records and notes within the system. * Operating or asset management experience in real estate, critical infrastructure, or natural resources sectors * Bachelor's degree or advanced degree Why you 'll like it here: * Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You'll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery. * We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change. * Context Labs' mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information. Powered by Immutably, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, our integrated solutions deliver context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world's most complicated, persistent problems. We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If you're interested in applying, please do so. Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at [please apply online]. * Who we are: Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world's climate information. The company enables data to become trusted, shared, and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD), providing insights and solutions to inform markets. Context Labs mission is to provide the world's trusted data fabric platform, delivering Asset Grade Data to customers using the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights. Building on the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform, the company has deployed customer service layers (1) Decarbonization-as-a-Service (DaaS), tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition, and its (2) CLEAR Path platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with the highest quality carbon credits. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet, in prior companies. The company has offices in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Mass., and Houston. We are a team that is hiring and growing! Learn more about Context Labs here: [please apply online]