Enterprise Account Executive

Kong Inc.

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 99,000 - 121,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Strategic Account Executive with substantial experience in enterprise software sales. This role involves engaging with global enterprise accounts and driving sales efforts, requiring a strong sales background, effective communication skills, and a customer-focused approach.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in selling enterprise software.
Experience with open source, APIs, and infrastructure software is a plus.
Strong interpersonal skills and proven sales techniques.

Responsibilities

Sell Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers.
Meet individual quotas and objectives.
Provide account leadership and direction in pre- and post-sales processes.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Presentation

Sales Techniques

Interpersonal Skills

Job description

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced sales professional, ideally with open source experience who will be selling into global enterprise accounts. The ideal candidate has been a part of the sales efforts for other early-stage enterprise products in an entrepreneurial setting. The Strategic Account Executive will be integral to our growth plan and in acquiring new customers. Kong’s Account Executive will be the primary point of contact and the face of Kong for our prospects.

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

What You'll Be Doing

Sell Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers
Meet individual quota and objectives
Take ownership of your book of business, which includes understanding and documenting the buying criteria and process, determining the appropriate motion and patterns, ensuring pipeline accuracy based on evidence, and working the leads to closure
Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process and contribute to analysis on wins/losses
Ability to travel to customer sites as required (30% - 50%)
And any additional tasks required by manager

What You'll Bring

A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with Kong
5+ years of experience in selling enterprise software; experience with open source, APIs, and/or infrastructure software a big plus
Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success
Effective communicator and strong interpersonal skills
Excellent negotiation, presentation and closing skills
Motivated, driven and results oriented

Bonus Points

Experience with fast growing startups is a plus

About Kong

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.

Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

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