Enterprise Account Executive - Brazil

Chainguard; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainguard is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to expand our footprint within large organizations in the United States. You will own the full sales cycle—from prospecting to close—and build a robust pipeline across defined enterprise accounts, engaging technical, security, and executive stakeholders.

You must be fluent in Portuguese and English, with 3–5+ years selling complex technical products, a proven track record of pipeline creation and revenue closure, and mastery of MEDDPICC or

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years selling complex technical products to enterprise organizations.
• Bilingual in Portuguese and English.
• Proven track record of building your own pipeline and consistently closing revenue.
• Fluency in a disciplined enterprise sales methodology (MEDDPICC or similar).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Pipeline development

Enterprise sales

MEDDPICC

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Communication

Forecasting

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:

Chainguard is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to expand our footprint within large organizations. You'll own the full sales cycle with enterprise customers — from building pipeline to closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals — and help some of the world's biggest companies build and secure software the right way.

The best candidates run a disciplined sales process, generate their own pipeline, and are comfortable navigating long enterprise buying cycles involving technical, security, and executive stakeholders. You'll partner closely with Sales Engineering, Customer Engineering, and Marketing to drive evaluations forward and win.

What You'll Do

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

What We're Looking For

• 3–5+ years selling complex technical products into enterprise organizations
• Must be bilingual in Portuguese and English
• A track record of building your own pipeline and consistently closing revenue
• Fluency in a disciplined enterprise sales methodology (MEDDPICC or similar)
• Skill identifying customer pain and selling on measurable business value
• Experience navigating multi‑stakeholder enterprise buying cycles, from technical teams to executives
• Strong deal management and forecast discipline across complex, concurrent opportunities
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
• Comfort operating in a fast-growing environment with evolving processes

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 fo