Enterprise Account Executive - EMEA
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
Not Specified
Remote
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Job Description
This role involves representing Canonical and its open source enterprise solutions in a specific territory, developing new business opportunities, managing customer relationships, and achieving sales targets for software and services related to open source, cloud, and virtualization technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent the company and its solutions within the assigned territory
- Develop and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
- Build and maintain a sales pipeline through outreach, prospecting, and industry events
- Close contracts to meet or exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
- Manage customer relationships throughout all stages of the sales cycle
- Collaborate with field engineers and customer success teams to propose solutions and identify growth opportunities
- Maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts using professional tools like Salesforce
- Establish relationships with key influencers and decision makers
Requirements
- Bachelor's level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science
- Experience of open source technology and solutions
- Detail oriented with effective follow-up
- Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
- Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
- Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
- Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
- Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events
- Represent the company, its solutions and software, in your territory
- Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
- Develop new pipeline through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
- Close contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
- Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives
- Manage customer relationships and interactions through all stages of the sales cycle
- Work with field engineers to propose solutions that solve our customers' business problems
- Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
- Maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
- Establish productive professional relationships with key influencers and decision makers
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation and salary range
Performance-driven commission structure
Annual compensation review
Additional benefits reflecting company values and local needs
Distributed work environment with in-person team sprints twice a year
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Program
Opportunity to travel to new locations for meetings and events
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long-haul company events
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