Strategic Account Executive - Chicago

About the Job:

As a Strategic Account Executive, you will own the relationship with the most strategic customers in your territory. You will play a significant role in the expansion of growth within these accounts. You should be business oriented, customer focused, and a self-starter who works well with little supervision. At the same time, you need to be comfortable wearing multiple hats. We trust you to do the right things with little oversight. 

LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a fast growing team and have an immediate impact with our product and customers.

Responsibilities:

• Own the relationship with strategic customers in your territory
• Educate, evangelize, and guide prospects through a successful adoption of LaunchDarkly
• Elevate LaunchDarkly's visibility at large Enterprises and communicate our value proposition with VP and C-Suite executives
• Consistently hit revenue targets
• Methodically develop new opportunities
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of our product and processes
• Engage in team development and mentoring

About You:

• Highly organized and autonomous
• Comfortable and energized operating in a fast-moving organization
• Exceptional written and verbal communicator
• Entrepreneurial and self-motivated
• Intellectually curious and ambitious
• Enthusiastic about learning and growing at LaunchDarkly

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years in an Enterprise Sales closing role, 10+ years preferred
• Proven track record of hitting or exceeding quota
• Experience managing a consultative sales cycle with Executives at Fortune 100 companies 
• Recent experience working for an emerging tech company 
• Intellectually curious and ambitious (not required)
• Knowledge or experience in the developer tool space/ Knowledge or experience selling to C-suite multi-threaded deals
• Knowledge or experience with MEDDPIC 
• Experience expanding across business units at large enterprises 
• Experience with a Land & Expand SaaS Sales strategy 

Specific Requirements:

• May require up to 50% travel

Pay:

Target pay range for a Level P4 in Chicago Area: $260,000 - $306,000 *On Target Earnings (OTE) includes base pay and commission*

*Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, degree level, and location.

About LaunchDarkly:

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. 

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
One of our company values is 'Widen the Circle'. Which means we seek out diversity of perspectives to get better results. We understand everyone has their own unique talents and experiences. We encourage you to apply to this role even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above. We can find out together if it's the right match for your skillset.

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