Account Executive, Confluent
Startups & Emerging Businesses
$82-94.5k
+ Equity + Additional commission and/or bonus pay
Data streaming platform
Posted today
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$82-94.5k
+ Equity + Additional 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
- 2+ years of closing experience
- Prior experience in Big Data, Cloud, SaaS, Open Source, or Enterprise IT Solutions
- Understanding of sales process methodologies (i.e. MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.)
- Consistent track record of success and history of quota attainment in consultative sales environments
- Outstanding communication skills - written and oral including strong presentation skills
- Exceptional time management skills
- High integrity, intelligence, self-driven, and team player
- Open to Travel to customer locations as needed
- BS/BA degree or equivalent preferred
What the job involves
- As a member of the Confluent Sales Team, the Account Executive, Start-Ups & Growth Business is responsible for selling Confluent solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises
- 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
- You must possess a "hunter/closer" mentality with a proven track record of success within a value-driven sales model
- Manage the complete sales cycle and drive revenue growth for large, diverse, complex territories
- Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline
- Participates in the development, presentation, and sales of a value proposition
- Comfortable negotiating SaaS/cloud/software contracts
- Build consultative relationships that result in growth opportunities
- Responsible for understanding Confluent offerings and the competitive landscape
- Partner with Solutions Engineers & Professional Services to ensure customer success
- Travels to customer sites to identify/develop sales opportunities when required
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
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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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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