• 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

As a Strategic Account Executive at CircleCI, you are a bold, intellectually curious, and results-driven individual who understands our product in-depth and is passionate about presenting its value to customers. With this being an impactful role at CircleCI, we’re searching for someone to actively participate in introducing our solution to new engineering teams! You’ll be primarily responsible for driving the sales process for new logos and expanding to new teams within our largest accounts; some of the world's fastest-growing technology companies. You will manage the entire sales cycle - from prospecting to qualification, negotiation, and close - with decision-makers in Engineering departments across various verticals. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to help influence product roadmap based on market and customer requirements. What you’ll do: Establish and develop a strategy for identifying, crafting, and closing sales opportunities within a strategic segment of customers. Primary responsibilities will be generating net new opportunities with opportunity to expand Leverage Challenger and MEDDPICC sales methodologies Demonstrate ability to use data and insights to overcome objections and craft a compelling value-based solution across multiple shareholders Build, prioritize and forecast your pipeline using platforms, including Hubspot, Outreach.io, Gainsight, 6sense, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Manage evaluations/POCs, contract negotiations, and customer relationships Collaborate effectively with internal partners, including solution engineers, customer success, and product managers Perform with the utmost integrity - CircleCI believes honesty with our customers is in everyone’s best interest What we’re looking for: 4+ years of SaaS sales experience, selling a technical product to large enterprise customers, with a track record of being a top performer Curiosity for the DevOps ecosystem and familiarity with technical concepts and their business value A great teammate that will thrive in our fluid, fast-paced, dynamic, scaling environment Resilient and inquisitive Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills (written and verbal) and organizational skills Consistent record of meeting and exceeding sales quotas with a curated account list of Fortune 100 or 500 accounts across industry verticals Experience growing existing accounts and opening net new accounts Experience selling to Engineering Leadership (CTO, VP of Eng, DevOps Leaders, etc.) Experience selling 7 figure, multi year contracts to Fortune companies Bachelor's degree preferred United States Base Pay Range $133,000 — $166,000 USD We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. About CircleCI CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital. CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.