Enterprise Sales Executive, New and Existing Accounts
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Enterprise sales executive driving new and existing-account growth for Akamai’s cloud security, Application Security, and Zero Trust solutions. Leading enterprise pursuits across sales and customer-success teams.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the Enterprise Security agenda internally and externally
- Collaborate with the wider Akamai team and channel partners to pursue and generate sales opportunities
- Create interest and pipeline within new or existing enterprise accounts
- Articulate customer reasons for buying Akamai through anecdotes and case studies
- Work across Sales, SE, Customer Success, Renewals, and Customer Advocacy teams
- Lead teams within a matrixed organization
- Sell scalable Application Security and Zero Trust solutions to enterprise customers and senior executives
Requirements:
- Proven track record of creating interest and pipeline within new or existing accounts
- Ability to understand why customers have bought from Akamai and articulate this through anecdotes or case studies
- Experience working with multiple teams including Sales, SE, Customer Success, Renewals, and Customer Advocacy
- Experience leading teams within a matrixed organization
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Enterprise domain expertise in infrastructure, applications, networking, or security backgrounds, selling to senior executives
- Cybersecurity experience including WAF and API Security
- Experience with Zero Trust technologies such as SASE and micro-segmentation, including Cisco Tetration or VMware NSX
- Firewall experience
- Adaptive, creative, resourceful approach and willingness to operate in a startup, undefined, and matrix environment
- Charisma, energy, and finesse to drive the Enterprise Security agenda internally and externally
Benefits:
- FlexBase flexible work arrangements: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both
- Health, well-being, financial, and broader life benefits

















