Strategic Account Executive – Southeast

Chainguard • Remote • 50 days ago

The role, in a nutshell:

We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard’s solutions offer.

What you’ll do: 

  • Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory
  • Convey value prop and product differentiators to prospects and customers
  • Forecast, meet, and exceed quota
  • Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads, develop and manage leads funnel
  • Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
  • Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, and sales engineering
  • Understand the competitive market, being familiar with competing companies and their offerings

What we’re looking for:

  • 5+ years of selling into Global 2Ks / 15+ years of sales experience 
  • Domain experience with one or more of the following required: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps Tooling, CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins)  and overall SDLC.
  • Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
  • Ability to learn new products and processes quickly
  • Competitive/Driven
  • Excellent communication skills verbal and written
  • Team player
  • Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
  • Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.

Desired Qualifications:

  • SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
  • Startup experience
  • A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
  • A sound, tech-savvy business acumen and the ability to articulate a compelling value proposition in a complex and evolving business environment
  • Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution

Ideal Locations – Florida, George, North Carolina, South Carolina 

Base Salary Range

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