Enterprise Account Executive - Bay Area

The role

You will own the full enterprise sales cycle from prospecting through closing. You will build and manage pipeline within a defined set of enterprise accounts to help organizations adopt Chainguard's solutions.

What you will do

• Own the full enterprise sales cycle from prospecting through close
• Build and manage pipeline within a defined set of enterprise accounts
• Lead discovery, qualification, and deal strategy using frameworks such as MEDDPICC
• Communicate Chainguard's value to technical stakeholders, security leaders, and executive buyers
• Partner with Sales Engineering and Customer Engineering to support evaluations and technical validation
• Manage complex enterprise sales cycles including procurement, security reviews, and negotiations
• Maintain accurate pipeline visibility and forecasting
• Consistently meet or exceed revenue and pipeline targets

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ YOE selling complex technical products into enterprise organizations
• A track record of building pipeline and consistently closing revenue
• Comfortable running disciplined enterprise sales processes (MEDDPICC or similar)
• Ability to identify customer pain and sell based on measurable business value
• Experience navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise buying cycles from technical teams to executives
• Strong deal management and forecast discipline across complex opportunities
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
• Comfortable operating in fast-growing environments with evolving processes

Benefits

• Work remotely with team meetup opportunities
• Bi-annual destination summits
• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
• Stock options upon hire and promotion
• Participation in secondary offerings
• 10 years to exercise options
• 100% Covered Health Insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible Time Off
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents

About the company

Chainguard is a venture-backed source for open source that delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds. Their customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.