Enterprise Account Executive - UK

Chainguard
GB
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to entrepreneurial sales professionals with enterprise experience in cloud and DevOps tools, working remotely but willing to travel for client relationships.

Best fit for

  • Enterprise sales professionals with a track record of exceeding targets in cloud and DevOps sectors.
    — “5+ years of Enterprise Sales Experience
  • Candidates who thrive in agile environments and can articulate complex value propositions.
    — “Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution
  • Tech-savvy sales executives with domain expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, or CI/CD platforms.
    — “Domain experience with one or more of the following required: Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps Tooling, CICD platforms (Github, Gitlab, jenkins)

Things to consider

  • Role requires willingness to travel for client meetings as needed.
    — “Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
  • Expectations include managing and forecasting sales opportunities through CRM tools.
    — “Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific instances where you’ve landed and expanded strategic accounts.
    — “Land and expand in our most strategic major target accounts
  • Demonstrate familiarity with competing companies and their offerings in interviews.
    — “Understand the competitive market, being familiar with competing companies and their offerings
  • Showcase startup experience or SaaS sales background if applicable.
    — “SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • exceeding-sales-targets
  • developing-and-managing-lead-funnels
  • collaborating-on-sales-cycle-improvements
  • understanding-competitive-market
Typical background
5+ years of enterprise sales experiencestrong track record of overachieving sales targetsability to learn new products and processes quickly

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise-salesSales-planningCrm-managementMarket-knowledgeCommunication-skillsTeam-playerProduct-knowledgeSales-forecastingCustomer-relationsCompetitive-analysis

Preferred

Saas-salesStartup-experienceTechnical-savvyAgile-environmentSales-aptitude

Stack & domain

Enterprise SalesCompute Platforms (kubernetes, Docker, Aws, Azure, Google Cloud)Devops ToolingCicd Platforms (github, Gitlab, Jenkins)SdlcSalesProductSupportSales EngineeringCompetitive MarketSaasDeveloper ToolsStartupSales ProcessTech-savvy Business AcumenAICommunicationTeam PlayerEntrepreneurialWilling To Go The Extra MileStrong Work EthicResourcefulFinanceHealthcare

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.

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:

Land and expand in our most strategic major target accounts

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:

5+ years of Enterprise Sales Experience

Domain experience with one or more of the following required: 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 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 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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