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Kathleen Columbia

Arlington,VA

Summary

Quota-exceeding B2B SaaS sales professional with 3+ years of experience across new logo, inbound, outbound, cross-sell, and full-cycle customer sales motions. Experienced selling across Unanet’s full product suite, experience with new logo and customers. Skilled in consultative selling, executive relationship-building, CRM pipeline management, cross-functional collaboration, and translating product, pricing, and ROI conversations into clear customer value. Seeking to bring a customer-obsessed, data-driven sales approach to an Account Executive role with Amazon Ads.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Account Executive

Unanet
Reston, VA
01.2026 - Current

• Own full-cycle sales opportunities, managing discovery, pricing, stakeholder alignment, and close to drive revenue growth.

• Created consultative talk tracks and ROI messaging for AI solutions and new customer products, simplifying complex product and pricing conversations into clear business value.

• Partner with executives, Customer Success, Marketing, and Enablement to uncover customer needs, improve messaging, and increase qualified pipeline.

• Use Salesforce and sales activity metrics to manage pipeline, prioritize accounts, and track progress against quota.

• Ramped in Q1 and remained on track to achieve 112% of quota in Q2.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Unanet
Reston, Virginia
06.2023 - Current

• Supported both new logo and existing customer sales motions, generating qualified pipeline through inbound, outbound, and cross-sell campaigns.

• Built cadences, scripts, messaging, and win themes for Unanet’s first Cross-Sell BDR role, creating a repeatable customer-side sales motion.

• Partnered with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to improve lead routing, messaging, handoffs, and pipeline conversion.

• Exceeded quota across multiple quarters, achieving 145% in Q1, 120% in Q2, and 101% in Q3, while earning BDR of the Quarter.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

Unanet
Reston, Virginia
01.2023 - 06.2023

• Built Unanet’s inbound lead qualification framework for AEC and GovCon prospects, increasing opportunity qualification by 50%.

• Designed repeatable inbound sales processes to improve qualification consistency, lead routing, and sales handoffs.

• Trained and onboarded 6 new BDRs on qualification, CRM workflows, and lead management processes.

• Managed chatbot and inbound sales inquiries, improving response efficiency and opportunity routing.

Education

B.S - Psychology

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
01-2022

Skills

  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Demand Base
  • Salesforce
  • Sales loft
  • Drift
  • Zoominfo

Certification

  • AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation
  • Amazon Ads Certifications — In Progress

Timeline

Account Executive

Unanet
01.2026 - Current

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Unanet
06.2023 - Current

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

Unanet
01.2023 - 06.2023

B.S - Psychology

Virginia Commonwealth University
Kathleen Columbia