
Account Executive – SMB/Commercial
OpenObserve
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Pipeline generation: Self-source the majority of your pipeline through outbound prospecting—email, LinkedIn, events, community, and creative account-based plays targeting DevOps, Platform Engineering, and infrastructure leaders.
- Full-cycle selling: Run the entire deal from cold outreach through technical discovery, POC, negotiation, and close.
- Technical discovery: Deeply understand a prospect’s current observability stack, pain points and the business impact of solving them.
- Evaluation management: Coordinate with our Solutions Engineering team on POCs and technical validations; keep deals moving and stakeholders aligned.
- Value selling: Translate OpenObserve’s cost and performance advantages into clear business cases—ROI models, competitive comparisons, and executive narratives.
- Competitive displacement: Identify and convert accounts running Datadog, Elastic, or Splunk.
- CRM hygiene: Maintain accurate pipeline, activity logs, and forecasting in HubSpot.
- Market feedback: Surface insights from prospects and customers to inform positioning, product direction, and ICP refinement.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of full-cycle B2B SaaS sales experience
- Is sharp and intellectually curious
- Has strong critical thinking
- Is creative under constraint
- Is a self-starter and skilled prospector
- Understands the technical landscape
- Has competed against or sold against Datadog, Elastic, Splunk, or similar
- Is a confident, clear communicator
- Thrives in early-stage environments
- Has a track record of hitting or exceeding quota
Benefits
- Full benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Unlimited PTO
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
B2B SaaS salesfull-cycle sellingtechnical discoveryPOC managementROI modelingcompetitive analysisCRM managementpipeline generationaccount-based marketingsales forecasting
Soft Skills
critical thinkingcreativityself-starterprospectingcommunicationintellectual curiosityadaptabilitystakeholder alignmentproblem-solvingresilience