Sr Enterprise Account Executive - Chicago

Split Software; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 280,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

Harness is seeking a high‑performing enterprise sales leader to drive new logos from Chicago, with a data‑driven mindset and a track record of closing large deals. You will own the full sales cycle, forecast rigorously, and collaborate across sales engineering and development teams.

You will use MEDDPICC as a guiding framework, while engaging C‑level stakeholders and balancing IT and business priorities to exceed quotas. This hybrid role combines office presence in Chicago with remote elements.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of driving and closing enterprise deals.
• Account planning and execution skills.
• Ability to sell to C-Level and across IT/business units.
• Strong W2 track record with quota attainment.
• Knowledge of MEDDPICC for pipeline and qualification.

Responsibilities

• Exceeding your number and closing enterprise logos.
• Forecasting accurately and communicating clearly.
• Collaborating with sales engineering and sales development.
• Managing full sales cycle from prospect to close.

Skills

Enterprise sales

C-Level selling

Account planning

MEDDPICC

Sales methodology

Consultative selling

Data-driven selling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Harness is looking for sales champions and leaders who are as passionate about building the next great software company as they are about blowing out their numbers every quarter.

About the Role

• Exceeding your number
• Winning new enterprise logos
• Forecasting correctly, communicating clearly, aligning brilliantly with the rest of the team
• Not being afraid of being data driven - including using Salesforce and other tools to track your progress
• Managing full sales cycle from prospect to close
• Collaborating with other teams, including sales engineering and sales development

About You

• A proven track record of driving and closing enterprise deals
• Account planning and execution skills
• Ability to sell C-Level and across both IT and business units
• Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals with a strong W2 track record
• Understands the value of utilizing a strong sales methodology such as MEDDPICC when building pipeline and qualifying opportunities
• Proven consultative sales solution skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent

Work Location

This is a hybrid role based out of our office in Chicago, IL.

What You Will Have at Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
• Recharge & Reset Program
• Monthly internet reimbursement
• Commuter benefits

The OTE for this position is $280,000 - $325,000.

Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. The compensation package for this position also includes a commission/variable component, which is based on performance, plus equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

Pay transparency

$140,000 — $162,500 USD

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal
• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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