Account Executive

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Account Executive owning European sales for Unikraft’s millisecond-boot microVM infrastructure. Building pipeline, leading technical enterprise deals, and converting pilots into production commitments.

Responsibilities:

  • Own European accounts end to end
  • Support US deals during overlap hours
  • Build and own a European pipeline across enterprise infrastructure teams, cloud and hosting providers, and AI and developer platforms
  • Conduct direct outbound with GTM engineers, including account targeting, campaign ideas and messaging
  • Travel to conferences and industry events and convert conversations into pipeline
  • Lead deals from first call to signature, including discovery, demos, technical deep dives, pilots and usage-based commercial negotiations
  • Engage economic buyers early and qualify opportunities using MEDDPICC
  • Partner with field engineers on pilots and live accounts to identify expansion opportunities
  • Refine the sales playbook and collaborate with GTM engineers on automation
  • Maintain accurate HubSpot data and forecasts
  • Feed market feedback back to product

Requirements:

  • 4+ years in closing roles selling technical products to engineering buyers, ideally in infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or developer tooling
  • Experience building pipeline from zero and directing/coaching outbound efforts
  • Comfort initiating conversations with strangers at conferences
  • Experience running complex, multi-stakeholder deals involving CTOs, platform leads, security, procurement and legal
  • Technical depth in virtualization, containers, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with usage-based or commit-based pricing and converting pilots or POCs into signed contracts
  • Excellent spoken and written English
  • Additional languages are an advantage
  • Experience using AI to research accounts, build pipeline and progress deals is a plus
  • HubSpot experience helps
  • A degree in computer science, engineering or another technical field is a plus, not required
  • Experience selling compute, serverless, sandboxes, databases or Kubernetes tooling is a plus
  • Familiarity with Modal, E2B, Daytona, Fly.io, Northflank, Vercel and Firecracker-based platforms is a plus
  • Existing network among European platform engineering teams, cloud providers or SIs is a plus
  • Experience selling through or alongside partners is a plus
  • Experience as an early sales hire at a startup is a plus
  • Must be based in Europe and able to work CET ±2hrs
  • Willingness to travel regularly to customers and events across Europe and occasionally the US

Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary
  • Uncapped commission
  • Meaningful equity
  • Coaching from founders and the founding AE
  • Regular travel to customers and industry events across Europe, with occasional travel to the US