Strategic Account Executive - N.A. [REMOTE]

The role

The Strategic Enterprise Account Executive develops, manages, and closes business for Strategic Enterprise customers in North America. This person partners with demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide customers through modernizing cloud platform architecture.

What you will do

• Carry a sales quota that aligns with Upbound’s revenue goals.
• Function as the primary point of contact and the face of Upbound for new prospects and customers.
• Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities within existing customer accounts.
• Manage complex strategic enterprise sales motions with multiple prospect engagement points.
• Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of Upbound products and services in partnership with pre-and-post sales engineering and support.
• Take ownership of your business by documenting the buying criteria, process, and owners to ensure pipeline accuracy.
• Look for and implement improvements to sales processes, tools, and materials.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets and consistently ranked top 1-2 on your team.
• Sold to large enterprise G2K companies and adept at navigating global, multi-national organizations.
• Sold AI, Cloud, or Infrastructure platform oriented products.
• Experience in solution and value selling in the enterprise cloud, cloud-native, and AI product spaces
• Correctly estimate qualifying opportunities based on MEDDICC.
• Drive to build a business, hunger to find and close deals, and pride in the growth of the business.
• Relentless focus on customer success and meeting the needs of present and future customers.
• Experience building positive professional relationships with senior IT and business executives.
• Clear and articulate written, verbal, online, and in-person communication skills.
• Professionalism, polish, attention to detail, and strong follow-up.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to help solve problems outside of your immediate lane.
• Fun in your job and enjoy what you do.

Nice to have

• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, AI solutions, and/or Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
• Significant experience selling disruptive technology into focused markets.

About the company

Upbound is a Series B company that creates and maintains Crossplane. They build the Intelligent Control Plane to power the AI-native enterprise.