Commercial Account Executive, Postman
$137-170k
OTE
+ Equity package
3+ days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Open for applications
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$137-170k
OTE
+ Equity package
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.
Role
Who you are
- This is a unique opportunity to join the rapidly growing sales team at Postman and we are looking for passionate, energetic people to further scale our fast-growing business. The ideal candidate has personally driven significant sales growth at Technical SaaS companies
- A top performer with 2-3 years experience hunting and closing net new logos
- Experienced with creatively sourcing pipeline outside of inbound lead flow
- Able to strategically map out and break into accounts
- Relevant sales experience in an Enterprise SaaS organization
- Experience selling developer and/or technical products
- Excellent communication skills both with customers and within an organization
- Proven negotiation and closing skills, as demonstrated by regularly exceeding sales targets while selling right-fit customers
- Strong track record of navigating organizations
- Ability to develop senior level relationships quickly and effectively
- Experience presenting to senior managers and the C-suite
- Ability to manage multiple opportunities simultaneously at various stages of the buying process
- Takes an active interest in increasing customer satisfaction and deepening customer relationships
What the job involves
- Each Commercial Account Executive has a territory of around 400 accounts, containing existing Postman users on all levels of Postman. The goal is to build strategies to manage target accounts with fewer than 250 employees, with the intention of understanding how they are using Postman, and introduce them to all the capabilities of our Enterprise Suite
- You'll work directly with technical founders, developers, and platform teams to help them adopt Postman and unlock better ways to build, test, and scale APIs
- Take ownership of the full sales cycle from prospecting to closure
- Build a strategic plan for your territory
- Create and manage sales sourced outbound opportunities
- Execute a land and expand sales strategy to drive widespread adoption and larger deployments
- Educate customers on the value of Postman throughout the evaluation and adoption cycle
- Navigate key decision makers to build Postman Enterprise awareness within organizations
- Leverage data to understand your customers and prospects to gain insight into their business challenges
- Provide recommendations based on customers’ business needs and usage patterns
- Identify customer needs and collaborate with Postman teammates to ensure long term customer success
- Communicate and effectively organize topics appropriately including: billing, legal, security, onboarding, and technical inquiries
- Provide a detailed and accurate forecast
- Collaborate and work with Solutions Engineering, Customer Success Managers, Sales Development representatives, Leadership, etc. to build strategic adoption plans for customers in large accounts
- Be a great listener!
Our take
Postman is a SaaS collaboration platform designed to streamline API development teams. APIs serve as the backbone for communication and data sharing across numerous applications, playing a pivotal role in today's device-centric landscape. The platform offers tools for testing, version control, and documentation, ensuring the efficient production of APIs.
Initially founded in Bangalore, Postman has since relocated its headquarters to San Francisco. With a prestigious clientele including X, Shopify, and Intuit, the platform boasts over 15M developers worldwide. Postman actively engages with the API developer community through various initiatives, such as hosting hackathons with enticing cash prizes.
The growing reliance on APIs to fuel digital transformation, compounded by the widespread shift to remote work and digitalization, underscores their critical importance. Moreover, the sensitive nature of APIs, given the data they transmit and the potential security risks, accentuates the need for robust development practices. Hence, Postman has thrived as companies seek to develop secure APIs efficiently to meet evolving demands.
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Insights
51% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health care: Based on where you're located and the plans available there, you can have up to 100% of your and your family's premium costs covered by Postman, or receive a generous monthly allowance to supplement existing medical coverage
- Unlimited PTO: All full-time Postman employees have unlimited paid time off (PTO). We strongly encourage everyone to exercise this benefit to ensure that personal and work lives remain well-balanced, healthy, and fully charged. Your body, mind, spirit, and loved ones will appreciate it!
- Supporting healthy meals: We want to ensure you eat healthy each day. It's why we provide a taxable monthly stipend so that you can be nourished throughout the week
- Play well, be well: We're serious about your wellness. Whether it's a boxing club membership, hula classes, or a longboard, we're here to cheer you on to get out and get moving. We'll reimburse you for activities and items that bring you joy through our wellness and fitness program
- A room with a view: We want you set up for success! To help make your home office comfortable, we'll provide a one-time reimbursement for your office set-up and headphones. Internet and phone costs are also reimbursable on a monthly basis
- Career development: We support your career development by providing access to unlimited courses on Udemy and a book allowance. Enhance and uplevel your skills, and even learn something completely new!
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Abhinav Asthana
(Founder & CEO)They began their career as CTO of BITS360, which they co-founded in 2007, before co-founding Grayscale Design and TeliportMe. They used this entrepreneurial experience to co-found Postman in October 2014, aiming to simplify API development.
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