Own consultative, full-cycle sales across mid-market and enterprise accounts, leading discovery, multi-stakeholder deal cycles, and ROI-focused narratives while building pipeline and partnering on successful customer handoffs.
Enterprise Account Executive - DACH
📜 Description
- Define and execute sales plans for the assigned territory.
- Communicate product value and differentiators to prospects and customers.
- Forecast sales and meet or exceed quota.
- Develop and manage inbound and outbound lead pipelines.
- Track opportunities using CRM and supporting tools.
- Collaborate across product, support, and sales engineering to improve the sales cycle and stay informed about competitors.
🛠️ Requirements
- Native or fluent German speaker
- Based in Germany
- 6+ years of Enterprise Sales Experience required
- 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
- Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
- Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful.
✨ Benefits
- Remote-first culture with team meetups and bi-annual destination summits.
- Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet costs.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options.
- Health insurance premiums covered for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off.
- Paid parental leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
Full job description
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.
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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:
What we're looking for:
Desired Qualifications:
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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.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
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