What You’ll Be Doing:
- Sell Kong Enterprise Platform to enterprise customers by developing and executing a pipeline generation strategy that will create a viable and long-term business.
- Meet individual quotas and objectives.
- Responsible for assigned territory account planning and forecasting.
- Take ownership of your book of business, which includes understanding and documenting the buying criteria and process, determining the appropriate motions and patterns, ensuring pipeline accuracy based on evidence, and working the leads to closure.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including product, marketing, and customer success, to ensure a seamless sales experience and alignment with customer needs.
- Represent Kong most professionally and support our customers to the best of your ability.
- Ability to travel to customer sites as required (30% - 50%).
What You’ll Bring:
- A true desire to see customers benefit from the investment they make with Kong.
- 10 years or more of experience in selling enterprise software.
- Demonstrated success in selling to large enterprises, particularly to senior-level executives and across multiple departments.
- Ability to leverage established relationships and proven sales techniques for success.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, taking ownership of your sales territory and adapting to changing market dynamics.
- Analytical and strategic thinking, with a knack for identifying business growth opportunities and devising plans to capitalise on them.
- Effective communicator and strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent negotiation, presentation, and closing skills.
- Motivated, driven and results-oriented.
Kong Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kong and has not been reviewed or approved by Kong.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for many roles, particularly in senior and technical positions, with bonuses and overtime enhancing earnings for some. Compensation is generally described as strong across a range of functions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies such as flexible time off, company Unplug Days, U‑First Fridays, and a paid sabbatical create multiple avenues for rest and personal development. These offerings support work‑life balance for a distributed workforce.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options and an employee stock purchase plan enable broad participation in company equity. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component of total rewards alongside cash compensation.
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Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate time to market.
Why Work With Us
It starts with how we show up for each other. We’ve created a workplace that’s intentionally flexible, deeply inclusive, and built for meaningful collaboration — whether virtual or in person. We trust our teams to own their work, and we give them the support, tools, and freedom to grow.
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