Enterprise Account Executive

Chainguard; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking an experienced sales executive to own and grow a designated US territory, evangelizing secure and reliable software to key decision makers. You will drive revenue by leveraging inbound and outbound leads, while collaborating with product, support, and SE teams to articulate Chainguard's differentiated security offerings.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in SaaS/security sales, strong communication skills, and a proven track record of overachieving targets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of selling SaaS/Security experience.
• Domain experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Strong track record of consistently overachieving sales targets.
• Ability to learn new products quickly and build processes.
• Competitive, driven, and excellent communicator.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory.
• Convey value proposition and product differentiators to prospects and customers.
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota.
• Develop and manage leads funnel through inbound and outbound efforts.
• Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other tools.
• Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle, including product, support, and sales engineering.
• Understand the competitive market and competing offerings.

Skills

Territory planning

Relationship building

Forecasting & quota attainment

Lead management

CRM proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Competitive analysis

Travel to clients

Tools

CRM system

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

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.

Skills/Job Requirements:

• 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

Candidate Background:

• 8+ years of selling SaaS/Security experience required
• Domain experience with one or more of the following strongly recommended: 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 create/learn 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

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also lik