India-Maharashtra Remote (City) Full-time

Kong is hiring an Enterprise Account Manager, Mumbai

Responsibilities

  • Sell Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers by developing and executing a pipeline generation strategy that will create a viable and long-term business.
  • Meet individual quotas and objectives.
  • Responsible for assigned territory account planning and forecasting.
  • Take ownership of your book of business, which includes understanding and documenting the buying criteria and process, determining the appropriate motions and patterns, ensuring pipeline accuracy based on evidence, and working the leads to closure.
  • Collaborate with internal teams, including product, marketing, and customer success, to ensure a seamless sales experience and alignment with customer needs.
  • Represent Kong most professionally and support our customers to the best of your ability.
  • Ability to travel to customer sites as required (30% - 50%).

Requirements

  • 7 years or more of experience in selling enterprise software.
  • Demonstrated success in selling to large enterprises, particularly to senior-level executives and across multiple departments.
  • Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, taking ownership of your sales territory and adapting to changing market dynamics.
  • Analytical and strategic thinking, with a knack for identifying business growth opportunities and devising plans to capitalise on them.
  • Effective communicator and strong interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent negotiation, presentation, and closing skills.
  • Motivated, driven and results-oriented.

Nice to Have

  • Ideally with open source experience.

Work Arrangement

Remote (City/Region) — Mumbai, India

Additional Information

  • Ability to travel to customer sites as required (30% - 50%).
  • Candidates who do not meet all criteria but are strong in some areas and interested are encouraged to apply.
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Kong
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models.
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Job Details
Department Sales
Category other
Posted 3 months ago