Account Executive - San Francisco - Upbound

    Upbound
    Upbound San Francisco

    6 days ago

    Description

    Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era. We're the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane, and we're building the Intelligent Control Plane-a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable.
    Our mission is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale-so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence.
    Today, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries. Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide. We're a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, and we've raised $69M to date. Learn more at
    The Account Executive - Strategic Enterprise role is an outside sales position responsible for developing, managing, and closing business for Strategic Enterprise customers and is an integral part of the field sales organization. This person will partner with our demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide prospective customers through a solutions sales journey of modernizing their cloud platform architecture. This position will require you to develop a deep understanding of the specific challenges customers are facing to help them positively achieve their business outcomes with Upbound's solutions.
    This role will work cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales development and customer success to provide a tight-knit customer relationship, account leadership and direction in both the pre-sales and post-sales processes.
    In this role, you will:

    • Carry a sales quota that aligns with Upbound's revenue goals.
    • Function as the primary point of contact and the face of Upbound for new prospects and customers.
    • Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities within existing customer accounts.
    • Manage complex strategic enterprise sales motions with multiple prospect engagement points.
    • Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of Upbound products and services in partnership with pre-and-post sales engineering and support.
    • Take ownership of your business by documenting the buying criteria, process, and owners to ensure pipeline accuracy.
    • Look for and implement improvements to sales processes, tools, and materials.
    • Travel to customer sites and industry conferences and events as needed.
    You are a good fit if you have:
    • Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets and consistently ranked top 1-2 on your team.
    • Sold to large enterprise G2K companies and adept at navigating global, multi-national organizations.
    • Sold AI, Cloud, or Infrastructure platform oriented products.
    • Experience in solution and value selling in the enterprise cloud, cloud-native, and AI product spaces
    • Correctly estimate qualifying opportunities based on MEDDICC.
    • Drive to build a business, hunger to find and close deals, and pride in the growth of the business.
    • Relentless focus on customer success and meeting the needs of present and future customers.
    • Experience building positive professional relationships with senior IT and business executives.
    • Clear and articulate written, verbal, online, and in-person communication skills.
    • Professionalism, polish, attention to detail, and strong follow-up.
    • A collaborative mindset and willingness to help solve problems outside of your immediate lane.
    • Fun in your job and enjoy what you do.
    It's a plus if you:
    • Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, AI solutions, and/or Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
    • Significant experience selling disruptive technology into focused markets.
      #LI-REMOTE
    • Why Upbound?
      At Upbound, you'll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models. If you're excited to build from the ground up, work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, and directly impact how revenue is generated and scaled-this is your seat at the table.
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