• Be responsible for the full sales cycle, from prospecting to close • Become a strong solutions seller with depth in Generative AI and Computer Vision • Deep dive into clients’ and prospects’ ecosystems and communities • Own a $1-$2M annual quota focused on net-new revenue across AI platform subscriptions and technology services • Consistently deliver quota attainment on quarterly bookings targets • Build and maintain 3x pipeline coverage through strategic outbound prospecting • Manage 15-20 active deals per quarter • Lead 4-5 qualified discovery calls per week • Conduct compelling discovery and scoping calls • Accelerate sales velocity • Maintain a win rate of >25% on sales-qualified opportunities • Work closely with Solutions to craft proposals • Use Salesforce and Gong to track funnel health

• Strategic Account Leader will report to an Area Sales Manager or Regional Director. • Build and execute strategic account plans that align GitLab's platform with agency modernization initiatives • Navigate complex procurement cycles and develop multi-year technology roadmaps with CIOs and technical leaders • Partner with system integrators and resellers to create powerful solutions for government challenges • Act as a primary point of contact and the face of GitLab for our strategic and large prospects. • Take ownership of your book of business • Provide account leadership and direction in the pre- and post-sales process • Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities in large/strategic accounts • Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of GitLab products through strong account management activities and coordination with pre-and-post sales engineering and support resources • Be the voice of the customer by contributing product ideas to our public issue tracker • Travel as necessary to accounts in order to develop relationships and close large opportunities • Generate qualified leads and develop new customers in conjunction with our strategic channel partners in exceeding quota.

Upbound is redefining how modern infrastructure is built for the Agentic AI Era. We’re the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane , and we’re building the Intelligent Control Plane —a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable . Our mission is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale—so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents . We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence. Today, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries . Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide . We’re a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital , and we’ve raised $69M to date. Learn more at upbound.io . The Account Executive - Strategic Enterprise role is an outside sales position responsible for developing, managing, and closing business for Strategic Enterprise customers and is an integral part of the field sales organization. This person will partner with our demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide prospective customers through a solutions sales journey of modernizing their cloud platform architecture.  This position will require you to develop a deep understanding of the specific challenges customers are facing to help them positively achieve their business outcomes with Upbound’s solutions. This role will work cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales development and customer success to provide a tight-knit customer relationship, account leadership and direction in both the pre-sales and post-sales processes. In this role, you will: Carry a sales quota that aligns with Upbound’s revenue goals. Function as the primary point of contact and the face of Upbound for new prospects and customers. Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities within existing customer accounts. Manage complex strategic enterprise sales motions with multiple prospect engagement points. Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of Upbound products and services in partnership with pre-and-post sales engineering and support. Take ownership of your business by documenting the buying criteria, process, and owners to ensure pipeline accuracy. Look for and implement improvements to sales processes, tools, and materials. Travel to customer sites and industry conferences and events as needed. You are a good fit if you have: Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets and consistently ranked top 1-2 on your team. Sold to large enterprise G2K companies and adept at navigating global, multi-national organizations. Sold AI, Cloud, or Infrastructure platform oriented products. Experience in solution and value selling in the enterprise cloud, cloud-native, and AI product spaces Correctly estimate qualifying opportunities based on MEDDICC. Drive to build a business, hunger to find and close deals, and pride in the growth of the business. Relentless focus on customer success and meeting the needs of present and future customers. Experience building positive professional relationships with senior IT and business executives. Clear and articulate written, verbal, online, and in-person communication skills. Professionalism, polish, attention to detail, and strong follow-up. A collaborative mindset and willingness to help solve problems outside of your immediate lane. Fun in your job and enjoy what you do. It’s a plus if you: Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, AI solutions, and/or Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Chef). Significant experience selling disruptive technology into focused markets. #LI-REMOTE Why Upbound? At Upbound, you’ll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models. If you're excited to build from the ground up, work with cutting-edge cloud technologies, and directly impact how revenue is generated and scaled—this is your seat at the table. About Upbound Upbound is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with Intelligent Control Planes - based on Kubernetes and Crossplane - that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 teams worldwide. A Series B startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, Upbound has raised $69M to date. For more information, visit www.upbound.io.

Description Who is Defined.ai? Well, from a technical point of view, we leverage the power of a global crowd to provide some of the world’s biggest companies with the high-quality data they need to power their artificial intelligence. We’re instrumental to the progression and development of artificial intelligence and we couldn’t be prouder or more inspired to be involved in an industry that is changing the world. From a personal point of view, we’re a group of big thinkers, high achievers and creative problem solvers. We bond over our shared love of software engineering, data science, and strong coffee. We like online gaming, running marathons, and team drinks. We celebrate authenticity and diversity and we’re invested in what we do. Our mission? World domination, obviously! What you'll do: As a member of the Enterprise Sales team, you will be responsible for: Hunting for new logos in the assigned Enterprise verticals. Managing enterprise and or strategic customers Creating organic revenue streams working with the solutions and customer success teams within assigned territories/regions. Supporting and collaborating with internal partners to build successful proof of concepts, use cases and RFPs etc. Requirements Benefits You spend a lot of your time at work, so it should be challenging, fun and interesting. At Defined.ai it will be all of those things and more. Here’s what we offer: Flexible working schedule and hybrid model. We know comfort can boost creativity and performance, so you can manage your schedule and work both from one of our modern office spaces or home. Excellent career development opportunities in a high growth company. With us, you can accomplish your career goals and follow a well-described career path with the support of your supervisor. Culture of feedback and continuous improvement. AI is a fast-paced area, so we keep track of tech trends, and we always ask for feedback. An international and diverse team. We have more than 30 nationalities at our 4 locations, and we provide language classes. Continuous training opportunities. You can choose from many options: leveraging hand-on workshops, unlimited access to Udemy and formal development opportunities. We love to have fun together. We joke a lot, and we can't imagine work without fun activities – we already surfed, raced carts and played soccer together About Us Defined.ai offers a platform with multiple data delivery options that leverages machine learning technology and human intelligence to deliver quality-guaranteed training data for AI systems. The platform offers self-service and fully customizable solutions that deliver high-quality project-specific training data, enabling AI products reach market quicker. It is this business model that has allowed Defined.ai to raise a total of $63.6M in funding over 4 rounds. Our value proposition is quality, privacy, speed and scale, covering more than 50 different languages. With strong expertise in speech and natural language processing technologies, we have been serving AI companies and Fortune 500 companies since day one. Defined.ai was founded in Seattle and has an office in Lisbon. Privacy Notice: defined.ai/candidate-privacy-statement