Strategic Account Executive, Confluent
Telco
$158.9-186.8k
+ Equity + Commission and/or bonus pay
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$158.9-186.8k
+ Equity + Commission and/or bonus pay
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in quota-carrying sales roles in a competitive market with a focus on growing consumption within accounts/territory
- Prior experience in Big Data, Consumption, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions
- Previous sales methodology training (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.)
- Prior experience in leading and executing a highly complex sales strategy to increase and drive revenue growth
- Consistent track record of success and history of overachieving and hitting quota attainment
- Ability to articulate, educate, and sell the business value to businesses of all sizes
- Experience developing and improving processes and managing change within an organization
- Exceptional skills in relationship-building, customer relations, and negotiation skills
- Open to Travel to customer locations as needed
- BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred
- You must possess a "consumption/growth" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model
What the job involves
- As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Strategic Account Executive is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to our Telco vertical segment
- We expect you to use your prospecting, sales, negotiation, and leadership skills to effectively sell Confluent offerings to leading companies to meet and exceed your quarterly sales target
- Responsible for driving revenue growth in our large, complex, and highly visible accounts
- Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline while continuing to grow consumption in current customer accounts
- Leading, driving, and executing a strategic complex sales cycle with responsibility for demonstrating the value of Confluent at C-Level
- Become an in-depth expert/SME of Confluent offerings, product suites, and competitive landscape
- Develop a deep understanding of your customers, their strategies, and business goals to become a trusted advisor
- Work closely with our partner ecosystem teams to sell to or through the ecosystem
- Align closely with our Solutions Engineering team on technical wins, Professional Services to deliver world-class customer experience, and Customer Success Management to identify and close expansion opportunities and renewals
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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