Enterprise Account Executive - PacNW at Chainguard in Washington - Remote

Job description

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

Required

• Sales process discipline
• Pipeline development
• MEDDPICC or similar sales frameworks
• Deal management
• Forecast discipline
• Communication
• Relationship-building
• Negotiation

Benefits

• 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.
• $325K OTE (50/50)