Enterprise Account Executive - Germany

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains. Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security, and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default. Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

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.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of Enterprise Sales Experience
• Language Skills: Business-level German (C1 or higher) required
• Domain Knowledge: Experience with one or more of the following:
  • Compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • DevOps Tooling
  • CI/CD platforms (Github, Gitlab, Jenkins)
  • Overall SDLC
• Skills:
  • 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
  • Willingness to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
  • Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory.
• Convey value proposition and product differentiators to prospects and customers.
• Forecast, meet, and exceed quota.
• Develop and manage a leads funnel through a combination of inbound and outbound leads.
• 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.

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 solutions

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

• Customer Obsessed: We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• Bias for Action: We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• Don’t Take Ourselves Too Seriously: We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.