Account Executive, Technology Staffing
Job Description
Technical Services Account Executive, Technology Staffing
3+ years staffing industry experience preferred
Austin, TX market (fully remote). Candidates should be located in Austin or surrounding communities and willing to attend client meetings, networking events, and monthly company gatherings. Relocation assistance may be available for exceptional candidates.
Our client is a highly respected Texas-based staffing and recruiting firm specializing in Technology, Finance & Accounting, HR, Sales & Marketing, and Executive Search. Known for its values-driven culture, strong recruiter support, and exceptional retention, the company has become one of Austin's most recognized staffing brands.
We're hiring a Technical Services Account Executive to expand the company's technology staffing footprint throughout Austin and beyond while building strategic relationships with CIOs, IT leaders, and technology decision makers.
What you will do:
- Develop new technology staffing business through prospecting, networking, referrals, and executive relationship building
- Grow contract, contract-to-hire, direct hire, consulting, and retained search opportunities
- Manage client relationships from initial prospecting through placement and ongoing account growth
- Partner closely with recruiters to fill client requirements and maximize delivery success
- Conduct client meetings, presentations, proposals, and contract negotiations
- Leverage existing company relationships and executive introductions to expand revenue opportunities
- Participate in local technology organizations, networking groups, and industry events
- Build market share throughout Austin while supporting nationwide growth initiatives
What we're looking for:
- Proven hunter mentality with a passion for business development
- Experience selling IT staffing, technology recruiting, or technology consulting services
- Strong relationship-building skills with executives and hiring managers
- Ability to create opportunities through cold calling, networking, and referrals
- Highly motivated, self-directed, and competitive personality
- Strong ethics, accountability, and values-driven decision making
- Comfortable working remotely while remaining highly visible in the local market
- Desire to grow into larger leadership responsibilities over time
Required skills:
- Business development and sales expertise
- Technology staffing industry knowledge
- Negotiation and consultative selling skills
- Strong communication and presentation abilities
- CRM proficiency and sales pipeline management
- Ability to work collaboratively with recruiting teams
Required education, training, experience:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- 2+ years professional sales experience required
- Staffing industry experience strongly preferred
- Technology staffing experience highly preferred
What you get:
- $65,000 - $75,000 base salary
- 6-month non-recoverable guarantee/draw
- Uncapped commission structure
- Realistic first-year earnings of $130,000 - $150,000+
- Full recruiter support from an experienced technology recruiting team
- Executive access and mentorship from a highly connected CEO
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life and disability benefits
- Hybrid/remote flexibility
- Cross-selling incentives and additional revenue opportunities
- Award-winning culture with extremely low turnover
- Potential path into future technology division leadership
The opportunity to join one of Austin's fastest-growing staffing organizations, build meaningful executive relationships, and create a long-term career path with a company that truly invests in its people.
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Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
