Kody Walker // Mid-Market Account Executive fit package

Kody Walker

Top-performing full-cycle closer with long-cycle, multi-stakeholder deal experience and practical AI leverage for sales productivity.
Austin, TXkodywalker1987@gmail.com+1-512-900-9950linkedin.com/in/kodywalker

Professional Summary

Quota-carrying sales professional with 13 years of full-cycle consultative selling in high-value, long-cycle environments. Brings proven revenue performance, multi-stakeholder deal management, disciplined pipeline ownership, and practical AI workflow leverage that improves speed-to-response, follow-up quality, and selling capacity.

Role Signals

Full-cycle sellingDiscovery and qualificationForecasting and CRM hygieneNegotiation and close plansMulti-stakeholder deal orchestrationAI-assisted follow-up and meeting prepDirect AE lane.Salesforce keyword helps ATS alignment.

Experience

New Home Sales ConsultantDR Horton
Jan 2026 – Present
Austin, TX
  • Own full-cycle deals in the $300K–$500K+ range from first inquiry through contract execution.
  • Guide buyers through discovery, product fit, financing coordination, negotiation, and close.
  • Coordinate 4–6 stakeholders per deal across buyers, agents, lenders, and delivery teams.
  • Use AI-assisted workflows to reduce response time, tighten follow-up, and keep more opportunities moving.
New Home Sales ConsultantBrightland Homes
Feb 2025 – Jan 2026
Austin, TX
  • Ran the full sales cycle: prospecting, qualification, pricing strategy, contract negotiation, and post-sale coordination.
  • Managed pipeline in HubSpot with structured activity tracking and conversion visibility.
  • Built an agent referral channel from scratch that produced consistent inbound pipeline.
New Home Sales ConsultantLennar (including Ryland / CalAtlantic)
May 2013 – Dec 2024
Austin, TX
  • #1 in the Austin division for units sold and total revenue.
  • 10x President's Club winner with top-10 national performance at the largest homebuilder in the United States.
  • Managed 30–50+ active deals at a time through 90–180 day sales cycles.
  • Negotiated contracts across buyers, agents, lenders, title, warranty, and construction teams — often up to 8 stakeholders in one deal.
  • Built a 100+ partner referral network that generated more than 30% of annual pipeline.
  • Trained and mentored newer reps on prospecting, objection handling, and closing.
Franchise OwnerKnockouts Haircuts & Grooming
Jan 2021 – Present
Kyle, TX
  • Own hiring, payroll, vendor management, compliance, service standards, and financial performance.
  • Built process and automation improvements that reduce hands-on time while keeping operations tight.

Why this profile works

  • Lead with 13 years of full-cycle consultative selling and real financial stakes, not the category switch.
  • Use long-cycle deal ownership and disciplined follow-through as the bridge into tech sales.
  • Keep the technical story light and commercial-first unless the JD explicitly rewards it.

Commercial proof

  • #1 in the Austin division for units sold and revenue
  • $1M+ in personal commission in a single year at Lennar
  • 10x President’s Club with top-10 national performance
  • Managed 30–50+ active long-cycle deals at a time

AI leverage

  • Uses AI daily for prospecting, sequencing, and competitive research.
  • Built AI-automated outreach sequences that reduced response time and increased lead conversion.
  • Uses AI-assisted workflows and lightweight automation to improve follow-up quality, organization, and selling time.

Interview hooks

  • 30–50 concurrent deals through 90–180 day cycles with 4–8 stakeholders in motion.
  • 10x President’s Club, top-10 national performance, and #1 division production at Lennar.
  • 100+ referral partners and self-generated pipeline help answer the “can he hunt?” question fast.

Tools

  • Salesforce (7+ years)
  • HubSpot
  • Dynamics 365
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude

Fit guardrails

  • Do not lead with “I built bots” or homelab hobbyist energy.
  • Do not make the lack of a degree the main story.
  • Do not undersell 13 years of quota-carrying closing by framing it like retail sales.