Enterprise Account Executive - Minnesota

Chainguard
Minnesota, MN
Remote

Who this role is best for

Geared toward enterprise sales professionals comfortable with complex deal strategy and technical stakeholder engagement, with a focus on remote work and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3-5 years of enterprise sales experience and a proven ability to build pipeline and close revenue.
    — “3-5+ YOE selling complex technical products into enterprise organizations”
  • Individuals who have managed multi-stakeholder sales cycles and can navigate procurement and security reviews.
    — “Experience navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise buying cycles from technical teams to executives”
  • Those who can clearly articulate business value and align Chainguard's solutions with customer pain points.
    — “Ability to identify customer pain and sell based on measurable business value”

Things to consider

  • This role requires a high level of coordination with multiple internal teams such as sales engineering and marketing.
    — “You’ll work closely with sales leadership, sales engineering, marketing, and customer success”
  • The role demands consistent performance against revenue and pipeline targets, with no room for inconsistency.
    — “Consistently meet or exceed revenue and pipeline targets”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with MEDDPICC or similar frameworks in your sales process.
    — “Comfortable running disciplined enterprise sales processes (MEDDPICC or similar)”
  • Emphasize your success in closing complex deals with enterprise-level stakeholders.
    — “Own the full enterprise sales cycle from prospecting through close”
  • Demonstrate your experience in technical sales by referencing technical stakeholder engagement.
    — “Communicate Chainguard’s value to technical stakeholders, security leaders, and executive buyers”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • exceeding revenue targets
  • closing complex deals
Typical background
sales experience in enterprise technology

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise SalesComplex Technical SalesPipeline ManagementSales ProcessCustomer Relationship Management

Preferred

AI Sales

Stack & domain

Sales ProcessPipeline DevelopmentComplex Enterprise SalesTechnical ValidationDeal ManagementForecast DisciplineCommunicationRelationship-buildingNegotiationLeadershipProblem-solvingTeamworkAdaptabilityCustomer FocusEnterprise SalesSoftwareSecurityAI

About the role

Original posting from Chainguard via Greenhouse

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.

Enterprise Account Executive 

Chainguard is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to help expand our presence within large organizations. In this role, you’ll own the full sales cycle with enterprise customers—from building pipeline through closing complex deals.

Successful candidates are disciplined in their sales process, strong at developing pipeline, and comfortable navigating complex enterprise buying environments. You’ll work closely with sales leadership, sales engineering, marketing, and customer success to help organizations adopt Chainguard’s solutions and improve how they build and secure software.

What You'll Do

Own the full enterprise sales cycle from prospecting through close

Build and manage pipeline within a defined set of enterprise accounts

Lead discovery, qualification, and deal strategy using frameworks such as MEDDPICC

Communicate Chainguard’s value to technical stakeholders, security leaders, and executive buyers

Partner with Sales Engineering and Customer Engineering to support evaluations and technical validation

Manage complex enterprise sales cycles including procurement, security reviews, and negotiations

Maintain accurate pipeline visibility and forecasting

Consistently meet or exceed revenue and pipeline targets

What We're Looking For

3-5+ YOE selling complex technical products into enterprise organizations

A track record of building pipeline and consistently closing revenue

Comfortable running disciplined enterprise sales processes (MEDDPICC or similar)

Ability to identify customer pain and sell based on measurable business value

Experience navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise buying cycles from technical teams to executives

Strong deal management and forecast discipline across complex opportunities

Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills

Comfortable operating in fast-growing environments with evolving processes

$325K OTE (50/50) 

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 like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.

Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).

100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.

∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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Source: Chainguard careers (Greenhouse)

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