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Jake Winterborne

London

Summary

Outcome-focused and entrepreneurial sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets and driving revenue growth in high-velocity, scale-up SaaS environments.


I bring strong experience managing the full sales cycle - from cold outreach and discovery to complex negotiation, closing and account expansion - with a focus on value articulation and stakeholder alignment.


I thrive in collaborative environments and bring a consultative approach to problem-solving, turning customer challenges into solution-focused partnerships.


I'm currently looking for an opportunity to transition into a Customer Success role to leverage my strengths and passion as a relationship builder.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Account Executive

Leadoo Marketing Technologies
London
10.2024 - 05.2025
  • Lead end-to-end sales cycles from strategic outreach to ongoing management across mid-market and enterprise accounts.
  • Build and nurture multi-threaded relationships with key stakeholders to drive expansion opportunities across subsidiaries.
  • Strategically identify and pursue upsell opportunities by analysing customer data and aligning solutions with broader business goals.
  • Deliver executive-level presentations to illustrate ROI and long-term value.
  • Bring relevant teams together to problem solve to ensure client satisfaction and strategise with the Product team on high priority features based on client feedback.

Account Executive

Synthesia
London / Amsterdam
11.2021 - 09.2024

Year 1: 240%

Year 2: 130%

Year 3: 63% (unfinished)

  • Highest performing AE globally by target attainment in FY2022.
  • One of the first of the Synthesia sales team that worked to take the company from $5m ARR to $70m in three years and achieve unicorn status.
  • Drove net new business growth and client expansion through self-sourced mid-market and enterprise accounts across multiple verticals in EMEA.
  • Managed customer relationships to ensure retention and identify expansion opportunities, including the highest value mid-market client worldwide which I self-sourced and built to 8x their initial land value.
  • Established strong account base metrics beyond revenue attainment including
  • Created tailored business cases aligned to client goals, leveraging data-driven storytelling to communicate value.
  • Operated independently across the full sales cycle, leveraging MEDDPICC to manage complex buying processes.

Business Development Manager

CallMiner
Remote
08.2020 - 06.2021
  • 100%+ target attainment over my three consecutive quarters.
  • End-to-end management of the EMEA business development function with sole responsibility for EMEA sales pipeline coverage.
  • Building outbound relationships within enterprise to strategic accounts, creating net new SQOs for the Sales function.
  • Onboarding and training new members of the team.

Team Lead, Business Development

Workfront
Basingstoke
11.2018 - 01.2020
  • 110% target FY2019.
  • Building outbound relationships within enterprise accounts, creating net new SQO's for the Sales function.
  • Provided EMEA support for the BDM technology leader in the US.
  • Represented the EMEA BDM team in weekly all-hands, sales and marketing alignment meetings.
  • Ran BDM-Marketing alignment meetings to ensure our departments aligned.

Business Development Manager

Cherwell Software
Reading
10.2017 - 10.2018
  • Highest performing BDM Q1 2018.
  • Building outbound relationships within enterprise accounts, creating net new SQO's for the Sales function.
  • Attending new business meetings alongside Account Managers, supporting and learning from customer interactions.

Education

BSC - BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (HONS)

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
2014 - 2017

Skills

  • Strategic relationship building and nurture
  • Consultative, tailored advisory approach
  • SaaS renewal management
  • Time management and prioritisation across a large account base
  • Key account research
  • Storytelling - building a value narrative with examples
  • Opportunity risk mitigation / MEDDPICC
  • Analytical pipeline forecasting and CRM management
  • Full-cycle sales and customer lifecycle management
  • Multi-channel prospecting and high-efficacy cold calling
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication style

Certification

ITIL Certified

Affiliations

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strength training
  • Fitness, nutrition, longevity
  • Callisthenics
  • Climbing
  • Fantasy and Sci Fi
  • Music and Music production

Technological expertise

  • Salesforce, Hubspot
  • Linkedin Sales Navigator, DiscoverOrg, GlobalData, Zoom Info
  • Outreach, Xant, High Velocity Sales, Salesloft, Lemlist
  • GPT, Claude, Gemini, Lovable
  • Canva, Synthesia, Miro

Timeline

Account Executive

Leadoo Marketing Technologies
10.2024 - 05.2025

Account Executive

Synthesia
11.2021 - 09.2024

Business Development Manager

CallMiner
08.2020 - 06.2021

Team Lead, Business Development

Workfront
11.2018 - 01.2020

Business Development Manager

Cherwell Software
10.2017 - 10.2018

BSC - BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (HONS)

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
2014 - 2017
Jake Winterborne