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Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.\nAbout the Role:\nWe are looking for an experienced sales professional, ideally with open source experience who will be selling into global enterprise accounts. The ideal candidate has been a part of the sales efforts for other early-stage enterprise products in an entrepreneurial setting. The Enterprise Account Executive will be integral to our growth plan and in acquiring new customers. Kong’s Account Executive will be the primary point of contact and the face of Kong for our prospects.\nThe role provides an opportunity to have real impact in a company scaling within a high-growth market, plus uncapped commission and earnings potential.\nWhat You'll Do:\nSell Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers.\n\nMeet individual quota and objectives.\n\nTake ownership of your book of business, which includes understanding and documenting the buying criteria and process, determining the appropriate motion and patterns, ensuring pipeline accuracy based on evidence, and working the leads to closure.\n\nProvide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process and contribute to analysis on wins/losses.\n\nAbility to travel to customer sites as required (30% - 50%).\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\nA true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with Kong.\n\nProven experience in selling enterprise software; experience with open source, APIs, and/or infrastructure software strongly preferred\n\nAbility to leverage established relationships and effective sales techniques for success.\n\nEffective communicator and strong interpersonal skills.\n\nExcellent negotiation, presentation and closing abilities.\n\nMotivated, driven and results oriented mindset\n\nMethodical approach to sales and pipeline generation\n\nBonus points:\nExperience within a fast moving scale-up is preferable.\n\nAbout Kong:\nKong Inc., the AI Connectivity Company, is building the connectivity layer of AI. Trusted by the Fortune 500® and AI-native startups alike, Kong’s unified API and AI platform enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI traffic - on any model, any cloud. 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