Chainguard
Corporate Account Executive, California
United States - Remote. Posted 10 days ago
The role
Sales executives will define and execute sales plans for an assigned territory. They will build relationships with decision makers to evangelize secure and reliable software.
What you will 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
- Develop and manage leads funnel through inbound and outbound leads
- Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
- Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle
- Understand the competitive market
Required qualifications
- 3+ years of closing experience in the SaaS/Security/DevOps industry
- Located in California
- Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
- Entrepreneurial
- Team player
- Competitive/Driven
- Ability to learn new products and create/learn processes quickly
- Excellent communication skills verbal and written
- Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships
Nice to have
- Domain experience with Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- DevOps Tooling
- CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins)
- overall SDLC
- Startup experience
- A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
- A sound, tech-savvy business acumen
- Ability to thrive in an agile environment
Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture
- 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 employees and 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 the trusted source for open source. They deliver hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software.