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Senior Enterprise Account Executive – Seattle
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Harness is seeking a senior enterprise account executive to win new enterprise customers for its AI software delivery platform. The role owns the full sales cycle, from account planning and prospecting through forecasting, negotiation, and close. Success requires consultative selling to C-level IT and business stakeholders, disciplined pipeline qualification, and consistent quota attainment. The seller will partner closely with sales engineering and sales development while using Salesforce and MEDDPICC to manage complex opportunities. This is a hybrid, US-authorized role with a stated on-target earnings target of $325,000 annually.
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I begin by mapping the account's strategic priorities, technology environment, buying process, and stakeholder landscape. I identify a compelling business problem, develop a multithreaded engagement plan, validate success criteria, and maintain mutual action plans tied to measurable outcomes.
I use MEDDPICC to test whether an opportunity is genuinely qualified by confirming metrics, the economic buyer, decision criteria and process, pain, champion, and competition. Any gaps become explicit actions, which improves forecast accuracy and prevents late-stage surprises.
For technical leaders, I focus on architecture, integration, reliability, governance, and implementation outcomes. For business executives, I translate those capabilities into release velocity, risk reduction, cost efficiency, and measurable return on investment.
I diagnose whether the stall is caused by unresolved value, missing stakeholder alignment, an unclear decision process, or commercial friction. I re-engage the champion and economic buyer with a concise recap of agreed outcomes, confirm next steps, and create a mutual plan with owners and dates.
I separate pipeline by objective evidence rather than optimism, using validated decision processes, access to power, business impact, and confirmed timelines. I review deal risks weekly, document next steps in Salesforce, and build sufficient early-stage coverage to protect the forecast.
About this role.
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position Summary
Harness is looking for sales champions and leaders who are as passionate about building the next great software company as they are about blowing out their numbers every quarter.
Key Responsibilities
- Exceeding your number- Winning new enterprise logos
- Forecasting correctly, communicating clearly, aligning brilliantly with the rest of the team
- Not being afraid of being data driven – including using Salesforce and other tools to track your progress
- Managing full sales cycle from prospect to close
- Collaborating with other teams, including sales engineering and sales development
About You
- A proven track record of driving and closing enterprise deals
- Account planning and execution skills
- Ability to sell C-Level and across both IT and business units
- Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals with a strong W2 track record
- Understands the value of utilizing a strong sales methodology such as MEDDPICC when building pipeline and qualifying opportunities
- Proven consultative sales solution skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
- Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent
Location
- This is a Hybrid Role
What You Will Have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
- Recharge & Reset Program
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
The OTE for this position is $325,000.00
Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. The compensation package for this position also includes a commission/variable component, which is based on performance, plus equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers
A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required
Harness in the news:
- Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
- Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
- How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal
- Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
- Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
At Harness, we care about your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. For additional information on this topic, you can visit our privacy Portal: https://harness-privacy.relyance.ai/
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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.
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