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Enterprise Account Executive – UK
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Chainguard is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive to own and grow enterprise accounts in the UK for its secure open-source software supply-chain platform. The role requires territory planning, prospecting, pipeline management, forecasting, executive relationship building, and quota attainment. Candidates need at least five years of enterprise sales experience plus technical fluency in cloud compute, DevOps, CI/CD, and the software development lifecycle. This is a remote-first, customer-facing sales position with occasional client travel and close collaboration across product, support, and sales engineering.
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I would segment accounts by cloud maturity, open-source exposure, regulated-industry requirements, strategic initiatives, and likely security champions. I would map technical and economic stakeholders, define account-specific hypotheses, coordinate targeted outbound activity with marketing and partners, and maintain clear pipeline coverage and next-step plans.
I tailor the message to the audience while keeping the commercial outcome consistent. For engineering, I focus on workflow integration, reliability, remediation effort, and developer velocity; for security and executives, I quantify risk reduction, compliance readiness, operational resilience, and the cost of insecure software dependencies.
I use objective qualification criteria, validate the customer’s business problem, decision process, funding, stakeholders, and timeline, and distinguish customer commitments from seller optimism. I update CRM hygiene consistently, inspect deal risks early, and communicate clear best-case, commit, and upside assumptions.
I began by confirming realized value and identifying adjacent teams or use cases with similar challenges. I developed an executive-aligned success plan with the customer, engaged internal technical resources for credible discovery, and built a phased expansion proposal tied to measurable customer outcomes.
I would first understand their current workflow, ownership model, pain points, and the cost of maintaining that approach. I would then position Chainguard around differentiated outcomes such as hardened production-ready artifacts, lower remediation burden, stronger compliance posture, and enabling engineering teams to ship securely with less friction.
About this role.
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
The role, in a nutshell: We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software. Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard’s solutions offer. Skills/Job Requirements:
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About Us
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child’s first year.
If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians” with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard’s Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
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