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Account Executive Onboarding Guide

Lots of support, information and guidance for your first six weeks at Unily

Start

Welcome on board!

Starting a new sales role comes with a lot to learn - new people, new products, new ways of working. This onboarding pack is designed to give you clarity, momentum, and confidence from day one. Across your first six weeks, it lays out what to focus on, when to focus on it, and how we’ll support you along the way - so you can build strong foundations without feeling overwhelmed. You’re not expected to master everything immediately; the goal is simple: help you ramp quickly, feel confident in the role, and get off to a flying start.

The mandatory stuff

Let's get this out of the way early - the learning everyone needs to do

Mandatory learning for new starters

All of your mandatory training is automatically assigned to you in Odyssey, our learning platform. You'll get an email with links to each piece; everything needs to be done in your first two weeks, so make sure to find some time to get that done. If you're ever wondering if you have any mandatory learning outstanding, head to Odyssey - anything that needs your attention will be in the Required Routes area at the top of the home page. If there's no Required Routes area - you're up to date!

Visit Odyssey

Week One: Getting Started

Overview of Week One

Each day also has a number of daily tasks

AM: Formal Onboarding

Tuesday

PM: Meeting your manager and mentor

AM: The Problems We Solve

Wednesday

PM: Sales culture & expectations

AM: Tools access and navigation

Thursday

PM: Ways of working

AM: Key contacts

Friday

PM: Weekly reflection and Q&A

Week One Daily Tasks

There are a small number of things to do each day this week, explained below.

Watch two Unite on Demand sessions

End of the Day Reflection

Goals for the Day email

Unite is our annual employee experience conference. Take time each day this week to watch two of the on-demand sessions.

End each day with a ten minute reflection on the day. Click below to see a template for this email.

Start each day by sending a short "Goals for the Day" email to your manager. Click below to see a template for this email.

Unite on Demand

Email template

Email template

Why we use daily goals and reflection

The first few weeks in role can feel busy and intense - there’s a lot to learn, and it’s not always obvious what “good” focus looks like yet. Starting the day with a short goals email and ending with a brief reflection is designed to help you build clarity, confidence, and momentum - it's not for extra admin. The morning goals email helps you pause, prioritize, and be intentional about where you put your energy that day. It also gives your manager visibility so she can support you early if something’s unclear, blocked, or heading off track. The end-of-day reflection closes the loop. It’s a chance to notice progress and capture learning while it’s fresh. Both are deliberately lightweight, time-boxed, and temporary. They’re here to support your ramp-up, help you learn faster, and make sure you’re never left guessing whether you’re focusing on the right things.

  • Start with your onboarding meeting with Talent Acquisition
  • In the afternoon, meet with your manager and your mentor
  • Don't forget your daily tasks
  • This is a great day to do the Welcome to Unily e-learning, as that gives you some other sites to explore

Week One: Tuesday

Welcome to Unily

Week One: Wednesday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • Study The Problems We Solve e-learning - it's an introduction to our customers and market

The Problems We Solve

  • In the afternoon, learn about our sales culture and expectations from your manager
  • Don't forget to watch two Unite on Demand sessions, and end the day with your daily reflection

Week One: Thursday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • In the morning, learn more about our sales tools - see the following pages
  • In the afternoon, learn about our ways of working from your manager
  • Don't forget to watch two Unite on Demand sessions, and end the day with your daily reflection

Our Sales Tools

Flip each card to learn more

Salesforce is our single source of truth for opportunities, forecasting, and decision. Keeping your opportunities accurate and up to date is a core responsibility - strong Salesforce hygiene is key and underpins how we manage deals, predict outcomes, and run the business.

Gong provides insight into what’s working in your sales conversations and where deals may be at risk, while also enabling consistent, automated follow-up so key touchpoints aren’t missed and reps can focus on selling.

Salesforce

Gong

Learn more

ZoomInfo helps you find and connect with the right decision-makers faster by giving you access to verified contact and company data, saving you time and boosting your pipeline.

We use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for prospect outreach, connection requests and messaging.

You should have access to all of these tools already; you'll have an email from Natalie Love with all your login links etc. Any problems, email sfdc@unily.com for help.

Getting access to our tools

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

ZoomInfo

Go there

Learn more

Why Salesforce Hygiene is so important - for you

Salesforce is one of your most important tools for staying in control of your pipeline and setting yourself up to win. Click the i buttons to learn more.

Spotting issues before they cost you the deal

Clarity on what matters most

Tracking deal success metrics

Your single place for context and continuity

Better decisions, backed by data

Why Salesforce Hygiene is so important - for the business

Clean, consistent Salesforce data allows the business to scale sensibly and support the sales team effectively, without adding unnecessary friction. Flip each card to learn more.

When the data is reliable, leaders can see patterns across activity, conversion, and deal velocity. That insight helps identify what great looks like, where coaching will make the biggest difference, and how to support reps at different stages of ramp or performance.

Using consistent stages and qualification criteria (including MEDDICC) means deals are assessed the same way across the team. That shared language helps everyone align on what “real” pipeline looks like and makes it easier to collaborate, coach, and step into deals when needed.

Documented customer interactions and deal details create continuity and accountability. It means the right information is available when needed, risks are reduced, and the business can operate with confidence as it grows.

Accurate, real-time data gives the business a clearer view of what’s likely to close and when. Better forecasting reduces surprises, improves planning, and builds confidence across the wider organisation.

Aggregated pipeline data informs big-picture decisions - from resourcing and territory planning to where Unily is resonating most strongly in the market. Clean data ensures those decisions are based on reality, not assumptions.

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Trust, compliance and continuity

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Week One: Friday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • In the morning, learn more about some great people to know - see the following page
  • In the afternoon, spend some time with your manager, reflecting on your first week
  • Don't forget to watch two Unite on Demand sessions, and end the day with your daily reflection email

Useful contacts - at this stage of your journey

There are a lot of brilliant people across Unily, and you’ll meet them over time. For now, we’ve kept this list deliberately small to help you get oriented, build confidence, and know who to lean on in your first few weeks. (Though if you encounter other people you'd like to meet, don't let us stop you!)

Your Team

Sales Leadership

Sales Enablement

Revenue Operations

The People Team

IT Support

That's the end of week one!

You’ve made it through your first week - nice work! Before moving into week two, take a few minutes to reflect:
  • What feels clearer now than it did on day one?
  • What’s one thing you’re proud of from this week?
  • What’s one question or area you’d like to focus on next week?
And remember: You’re not expected to have it all figured out yet - week one is about orientation, not mastery.

Week Two: Product Week

Continue with the daily goals and reflection emails - there's also a task for this week to complete the level 100 product certification

Overview of Week Two

Intro to Universe and Product Certification

Monday
Tuesday

Use cases and outcomes

Wednesday

Product in action

Thursday

Introduction to Compass

Friday

Weekly reflection and Q&A

Week Two: Monday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • Use the following pages to get an introduction to Universe, and start the Level 100 Product Certification path
  • Don't forget to end the day with your daily reflection

Universe

Universe is our Knowledge, Community and Communication platform, available both internally and externally to customers (and even during the sales process).
It's definitely worth finding the time to explore and see what you can find.
Universe is owned by the Learning and Enablement team: key contacts are Hannah Deacon and Camille Leaveau-Dasilva.

Go to Universe

Product Certification Level 100

Right now, learning about our product is done on a feature-by-feature basis. Each feature has learning at different levels:
  • level 100 - beginner
  • level 200 - intermediate
  • level 300 - advanced
Note: not all the topics have all three, there are a few different combinations. One task for this week is to complete all of the Level 100 lessons. There are 27 topics, each with a quiz - but the lessons are short, so this isn't as daunting as it sounds! To access the learning, click the link below, then click a topic, and click the Level 100 Learning Path. Any questions, drop Nicola Slater a message.

Go to Product Training

Week Two: Tuesday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • It's time to learn more about our product use cases. Follow the link to an e-learning module on that.
  • Don't forget to continue with your product learning, and remember to end the day with your daily reflection

Product Use Cases

Week Two: Wednesday

Today, as well as your Daily Goals email, your Reflection email, and more product learning, here are some additional options that will help you build product knowledge:

Investigate more about our customer journeys. A great way to do that is to explore the Customer Stories page on the Unily.com website.

Watch a live demo, or a quality recorded one. Ask your manager if there are any options to sit in on a live demo this week or any time soon. Also get recommendations for a good recorded demo or two to watch.

Customer Stories

Week Two: Thursday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • Today it's time to learn more about Compass, Unily's methodology for setting goals. See the following page for more on that.
  • Don't forget to keep up with your product certification, and end the day with your daily reflection

Compass

This week - read Mark Chamber's Compass, and your manager's. They're available on their Polaris pages. Yours will flow from theirs, so start thinking about what might be on yours.

Compass is Unily's company aligment and goal-setting process. Using Compass, we can all see how our work supports Unily's strategy on a daily basis; everyone in Unily makes their Compass available for all to view on their Polaris profile page. This week, your task is to familiarize yourself with Compass. Head to the Compass page on Polaris, and check out the guide, deck and video at the bottom of the page. That'll help you to start getting a feel for how a good Compass is created. Actually creating your Compass is a task for next week.

Compass

Week Two: Friday

  • Start with your daily goals email
  • Hopefully you're nearly there with the Product training - congratulations!
  • In the afternoon, spend some time with your manager, reflecting on your first week
  • Don't forget to end the day with your daily reflection email

That's week two completed!

You’ve made it through your second week - great going! Before moving into week three, take a few minutes to reflect:
  • What questions did you find the answer to this week?
  • What’s one thing you’re proud of from this week?
  • What’s one question or area you’d like to focus on next week?
And remember: this week was about understanding how everything fits together - not about knowing every detail.

Week Three: Territory Introduction

Overview of Week Three

Continue with the daily goals and reflection emails

What's my patch?

Monday
Tuesday

What's in it?

Wednesday

How deals happen here

Thursday

Working the territory

Friday

Compass setting, Weekly reflection and Q&A

Find time this week to meet with Jay Lupas to discuss your top 2-3 accounts and learn how he puts a value story together, and how to use the ROI calculator

More to follow...

Keeping your opportunities up to date gives you a clear, real-time view of what’s moving, what’s stuck, and what’s coming next. That visibility helps you prioritize the right deals, focus your time where it will have the biggest impact, and forecast with confidence - without relying on memory or gut feel.

Tracking things like time in stage, number of contacts, conversion rates, and MEDDICC scores helps you spot patterns in your own deals. Over time, this gives you powerful insight into where deals accelerate, where they stall, and what great looks like, so you can adjust and improve faster.

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Our brain is biologically prepared to process visual content. Almost 50% of our brain is involved in processing visual stimuli.

Salesforce helps surface early warning signs - deals sitting too long in stage, missing stakeholders, or momentum starting to fade. When the data’s clean, those signals let you step in early, course-correct, and keep deals alive - rather than discovering problems when it’s already too late.

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Dashboards and reports aren’t just for leadership - they’re there to help you self-coach. Clean data gives you an honest view of your performance, highlights opportunities to sharpen your approach, and supports better conversations about deal strategy and next steps.

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The People Team

Alexa Perlstein is our Senior People Partner who supports Sales

Sales Enablement

Right now, Sales Enablement is in transition, but you can expect lots of support from your manager, your peers, and where possible, from Nicola Slater.

Nicola Slater is our Director, Learning and Enablement

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We are in the era of digital information explosion. This causes our way of obtaining information to have changed, moving from traditional reading to a cognitive strategy based on navigation.

All your notes, stakeholders, meeting outcomes, and next steps live in one place. That means you always have the full picture at your fingertips, whether you’re preparing for a call, picking something up after time away, or getting support from your manager or a teammate.

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We are in the era of digital information explosion. This causes our way of obtaining information to have changed, moving from traditional reading to a cognitive strategy based on navigation.

Daily reflection email - week one

Subject: Reflection for Today - [your name] - [the date]

1. Did I progress my top priority?Yes / Partially / No - one line on why if Partially or No 2. What went well today? Any key things that worked, clicked, or felt like progress 3. What did I learn? Any key insights about the product, customer, process, or myself

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Pose a dramatic question; it is the essential ingredient for keeping the audience's attention. It is usually posed subtly at the beginning of the story to intrigue the audience and is resolved at the end.

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Pose a dramatic question; it is the essential ingredient for keeping the audience's attention. It is usually posed subtly at the beginning of the story to intrigue the audience and is resolved at the end.

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Pose a dramatic question; it is the essential ingredient for keeping the audience's attention. It is usually posed subtly at the beginning of the story to intrigue the audience and is resolved at the end.

Goals for the day email - week one

Subject: Goals for Today - [your name] - [the date]

1. Top priority

  • The single most important thing I’m aiming to progress today
2. Supporting actions
  • 1–3 things I’ll do to support that priority
3. Help needed?
  • Yes / No
(If yes: one line on what would help)

Your Team

Your manager will introduce you to your immediate team members - but remember, you can always look up the org chart yourself. An easy way to do this is by searching for a name in Polaris - or you can go to Rippling, our HR system, and explore the org chart in there.

Org chart in Rippling

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Pose a dramatic question; it is the essential ingredient for keeping the audience's attention. It is usually posed subtly at the beginning of the story to intrigue the audience and is resolved at the end.

Sales Leadership

Mark Chambers is our Chief Revenue Officer

Chelsea Gachette is our RVP of Sales for NAM

Lauren Parker is our RVP of Sales for EMEA and APAC

Revenue Operations

Kate Spencer is our VP, Global GTM Operations

James Pickering is our Manager, Global Business Development

Ian Shaw is our Senior Applications and Insights Manager

IT Support

Whilst the correct way to raise issues with IT is via a ServiceNow ticket, these are very good people to know!

James Heathcote is our Technical Operations Manager - Information and Security

Ryan Hamilton is our IT Manager

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Pose a dramatic question; it is the essential ingredient for keeping the audience's attention. It is usually posed subtly at the beginning of the story to intrigue the audience and is resolved at the end.