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Senior Account Executive - Public Sector

3/11/2026

The Senior Account Executive is responsible for driving direct client contract value, retention, and growth through expansion and introducing new products and services. This involves consulting with C-level executives to develop enterprise-wide strategies that maximize Gartner's delivered value.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

501-1,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Gartner, Inc. stands as a global leader in research and advisory services, pioneering insights that steer businesses toward success. Renowned for unparalleled expertise, Gartner navigates the evolving technology landscape, providing strategic counsel and data-driven analysis to companies worldwide. With a diverse team of analysts and consultants, they offer unparalleled perspectives across industries, empowering organizations to make informed decisions. Gartner's depth of research spans from emerging trends to market dynamics, guiding clients through transformative changes. As a trusted advisor, Gartner remains at the forefront, shaping business strategies and empowering leaders to harness innovation, adapt to disruptions, and thrive in a dynamic market ecosystem.
About the Role

Sr. Account Executive

What makes Gartner Sales a GREAT fit for you?

When you join Gartner Sales, you’ll set your career on track for outstanding achievement with a company that knows no limits. We’re the leader in our industry, achieving double-digit growth by helping clients make the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else. Our sales associates earn a competitive base salary, uncapped commissions and exceptional benefits—along with top training and support, and all-expense-paid luxury incentive trips for high performers. If you’re coachable, persistent, smart, executive-savvy, and looking for your next great adventure, Gartner is the place for you.

About this role:

The Sr. Account Executive is a field sales role responsible for direct client contract value, retention and growth through contract expansion, and the introduction of new products and services.

What you’ll do: 

  • Consult with C-level executive clients to develop and implement an effective, enterprise wide strategy that maximizes the value Gartner delivers
  • Manage accounts with the outcome of increased customer satisfaction, retention and account growth
  • Master and consistently execute Gartner’s internal sales methodology
  • Demonstrate senior sales leadership through coaching, mentoring and developing junior sales account executives

What you’ll need:

  • Bachelor’s degree is required; Masters or advanced degree a plus
  • 8+ years of proven consultative sales experience in high technology (services, software or hardware)
  • Ability to prospect and manage C-level and senior-level relationships within large global enterprises
  • Proven experience building excellent client relationships, offering value added, insightful and strategic vision into their business
  • Knowledge of the full life cycle of the sales process from prospecting to close

Who you are:

  • Comfortable selling to, influencing and building trust-based, value-added relationships with senior executives
  • Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and unexpected change
  • Teachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement
  • Consistently high achiever marked by perseverance, humility and a positive outlook in the face of challenges

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.


The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Gartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling Human Resources at +1 (203) 964-0096 or by sending an email to ApplicantAccommodations@gartner.com.

Job Requisition ID:108364

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Key Skills
Consultative SalesAccount ManagementContract Value ManagementContract ExpansionNew Product IntroductionC-Level ConsultationEnterprise StrategyCustomer SatisfactionSales MethodologySales LeadershipCoachingMentoringProspectingRelationship BuildingSales Process Management
Categories
SalesConsultingManagement & LeadershipGovernment & Public Sector
Benefits
Competitive base salaryUncapped commissionsExceptional benefitsTop training and supportAll-expense-paid luxury incentive trips
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