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.
What you'll do:
- 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
- US Based
What we're looking for:
- 3+ 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
