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# Enterprise Account Executive – Central

AI Summary Chainguard is seeking an Enterprise Account Executive to grow strategic enterprise accounts in the Central U.S. region. The role owns the complete sales cycle, including prospecting, discovery, technical evaluations, security reviews, procurement, negotiation, and closing. Success requires experience selling complex technical products to multiple stakeholder groups, including engineering, security, and executive buyers. The candidate will use a disciplined methodology such as MEDDPICC, build independent pipeline, and partner closely with Sales Engineering, Customer Engineering, and Marketing. This is a remote, full-time sales role in a fast-growing cybersecurity and software supply-chain security company.[Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/chainguard.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Sales](https://jobicy.com/categories/seller.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceDirectorPublished11 Nov 2026Apply before11 Dec 2026Listing views42Application actions1Application toolkit

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## About this role.

[Chainguard](https://jobicy.com/company/chainguard.md) 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:

Chainguard is looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to expand our footprint within large organizations. You’ll own the full sales cycle with enterprise customers — from building pipeline to closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals — and help some of the world’s biggest companies build and secure software the right way.

The best candidates run a disciplined sales process, generate their own pipeline, and are comfortable navigating long enterprise buying cycles involving technical, security, and executive stakeholders. You’ll partner closely with Sales Engineering, Customer Engineering, and Marketing to drive evaluations forward and win.

### What You’ll Do

* Own the full enterprise sales cycle, from prospecting through close
* Build and manage pipeline across a defined set of enterprise accounts
* Lead discovery, qualification, and deal strategy using frameworks like MEDDPICC
* Communicate Chainguard’s value to technical stakeholders, security leaders, and executive buyers
* Partner with Sales Engineering and Customer Engineering to run technical evaluations and validation
* Manage complex sales cycles, including procurement, security review, and negotiation
* Maintain accurate pipeline visibility and forecasting
* Consistently meet or exceed revenue and pipeline targets

### What We’re Looking For

* 3–5+ years selling complex technical products into enterprise organizations
* A track record of building your own pipeline and consistently closing revenue
* Fluency in a disciplined enterprise sales methodology (MEDDPICC or similar)
* Skill identifying customer pain and selling on measurable business value
* Experience navigating multi-stakeholder enterprise buying cycles, from technical teams to executives
* Strong deal management and forecast discipline across complex, concurrent opportunities
* Excellent communication, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
* Comfort operating in a fast-growing environment with evolving processes

### 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](https://www.chainguard.dev/legal/candidate-privacy-notice).

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## Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

### Job Complexity

4/5EasyHard

### Pace & Pressure

5/5RelaxedFast-paced

### Autonomy Level

5/5GuidedFull ownership

### Communication Load

5/5IndependentCollaborative

AI insightThe position involves long, complex enterprise sales cycles with technical validation, security review, procurement, and executive-level negotiation. It also requires self-generated pipeline and consistent forecasting discipline in an evolving growth-stage environment.

## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$180,000US market range (per year)$140k–$230k0$253.00k

AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer base-pay range is disclosed. The annual cadence is inferred from the full-time U.S. enterprise account executive context. Estimated annual base salary is approximately $140,000–$230,000 USD, with a midpoint of $180,000; variable commission and equity may be additional but are not included in this estimate.

## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

[Enterprise sales](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Enterprise%20sales.md)[Account management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Account%20management.md)[Pipeline generation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Pipeline%20generation.md)[MEDDPICC](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=MEDDPICC.md)[Sales forecasting](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Sales%20forecasting.md)[Complex deal management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Complex%20deal%20management.md)[Technical solution selling](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20solution%20selling.md)[Cybersecurity sales](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Cybersecurity%20sales.md)[Stakeholder management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Stakeholder%20management.md)[Negotiation](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Negotiation.md)[Prospecting](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Prospecting.md)[Sales strategy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Sales%20strategy.md)[CRM management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=CRM%20management.md)[Value-based selling](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Value-based%20selling.md)

Sample interview questionsHow do you build and qualify pipeline for a complex enterprise account?I start with account research to identify strategic initiatives, security or software delivery risks, and relevant stakeholders. I use targeted outreach and discovery to confirm pain, business impact, decision criteria, process, timeline, and access to the buying committee before committing significant resources.

Describe how you use MEDDPICC in an enterprise opportunity.

I use MEDDPICC as an operating framework throughout the opportunity. I continuously validate metrics, economic buyer access, decision criteria and process, paper process, pain, champion strength, and competition so the account plan reflects facts rather than optimism.

How would you position Chainguard to a technical security leader and an executive buyer?

With a security leader, I would focus on reducing software supply-chain risk, improving image integrity, supporting compliance, and making remediation more manageable. With an executive buyer, I would connect those outcomes to reduced operational risk, faster engineering delivery, lower exposure, and measurable business value.

How do you manage a sales cycle that includes a technical evaluation and security review?

I establish mutual success criteria, stakeholder roles, milestones, and an evaluation plan early. I partner closely with Sales Engineering and Customer Engineering, document technical and business outcomes, address security concerns proactively, and keep the commercial process moving in parallel.

What do you do when a forecasted enterprise deal slips?

I identify the specific cause of the delay, such as an unconfirmed decision process, missing executive alignment, procurement dependency, or weak champion. I update the forecast promptly, create a recovery plan with clear next steps and owners, and strengthen qualification before reclassifying the opportunity.

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