Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Job description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue. We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us. Enterprise Account Executive - (London) Reporting to the Director of Sales, the Enterprise Account Executive will lead and drive the efforts for the continued growth of Fastly in taking ownership of our expansion into the UK market, specifically targeting Commerce, SAAS, PAAS, Media and Publishing, High Tech and Financial Services markets. This is a great opportunity to help Fastly to grow and expand across the region. Our ideal candidate has direct field sales experience with a proven track record in developing new business across different verticals, and possesses a technical sales background selling Edge Cloud/ Security/ Cloud Services, with a strong eye for business that enables them to lead and close large engagements with senior level executives (i.e. Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Executive Officer (CEO). What you will do Development, management and execution of a Go To Market plan to ensure Fastly meets its objectives of continued growth in the assigned vertical across the territory. Accountable for driving pipeline, sales, revenue, and meeting or exceeding quota goals Lead all aspects of the sales cycle from start to finish both internally and externally including: prospecting, discovery, Proof of Concepts, value proposition positioning and pricing, contract closing and account management Work closely with a Sales Engineer and wider revenue team to guide prospective customers through demos Develop a technical understanding of the Fastly solutions, the problems they solve for our customers, and where they fit in the broader Edge Computing, Security and DevOps landscape Partner with the account management team to accelerat…