OpenObserve

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