brucech5

Key Account Director

Best Account Manager/AE jobs with no travel

Hi all,

I'm in the minority with travel post COVID; i really hate work travel and do not like it. at all.

I'm currently in the middle of transitioning to a key accounts/mid market account manager role at my company. In the future, I would like to take on an AM role, but not really travel at all, if at all.

What sort of companies or roles should I go for?

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braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Ones that do everything virtual... Maybe zoom?

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

That’s a great suggestion.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

That’s what I was gonna say.

Maximas

Tycoon

-1

Senior Sales Executive

I agree.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

I think it really depends on the culture, I have been on teams where field reps traveled once and another traveled every week. Some companies if you are hitting your number they don’t care

BourbonKing

Valued Contributor

VP of Sales

Look at companies known to have strong inside sales teams. You can search Glassdoor and job boards for companies with job postings for Inside Sales Reps.

brucech5

Fire Starter

Key Account Director

thank you! this is awesome

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Check out remote.io?

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Are you more effective in front of the customer or via zoom?

brucech5

Fire Starter

Key Account Director

it honestly made no difference at any point whether I was in person or on zoom. I found it never really mattered

WhoDey

Opinionated

VP of Sales

Inside sales

Anker

Opinionated

SAE (Senior Account Executive)

I just interviewed for a supposed AE role. It turned out to be strictly inside sales, and you could travel “if you wanted to,” but most didn’t. Personally, I want to travel again now, so it wasn’t right for me.
I guess the takeaway is that titles don’t always tell you much, things have changed.

activity

Politicker

VP, Business Development

Travel will become more and more antiquated. Boomers will keep it alive for a little while longer but when you look at how effective you can be as a company while spending a fraction of the cost, companies will pay attention. Especially during this downturn.

sketchysales

Politicker

Sales Manager

I am also in the minority but i am weird and wouldnt have it any other way.

bountyhunter

Contributor

SDR (Sales Development Rep)

try full remote work hehe

MCP

Valued Contributor

Sales Director

The problem is the money is in the field. Most inside gigs won’t pay more than $85K base. Get as much guaranteed as you can as the variable OTE may never be realized.

aenima

Celebrated Contributor

-5

Principal Account Manager

As long as you enjoy delivering minimal value and selling stuff over a phone without ever getting to know anyone or their business, this sounds like a great career path.

You probably shouldn’t be in sales — you’ve set a ceiling to your career by u willingness to visit customers. It’s Boiler Room for life for you.

MCP

Valued Contributor

Sales Director

Really not a good comment. Incredibly shortsighted and ignorant to the truth. No wonder people are down voting it

aenima

Celebrated Contributor

Principal Account Manager

As someone who has over a decade of experience in enterprise sales, I think it’s ignorant to think you can be an account manager and develop relationships with your customer virtually.

Just because you don’t like what I’m saying doesn’t make it true.

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