The Enterprise Sales Executive’s primary goal is to consistently grow our current client base with new customers, and expand relationships with existing customers. You have the freedom to work remotely from your home office (preferably close to a major airport). Travel is expected, as required, for customer-facing activities. Aside from quota achievement, the winning candidate will become a leader of a collaborative team selling model at Percona.
The territory is the Southeast US. The ideal candidate will reside within North America, in the following states: Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
About You:
You have a hunter's mentality - big deals endlessly excite you
You understand the importance of preparation, process, and urgency
You can work independently, and are solution-driven
You are persuasive and present ideas with conviction
You are successful in building relationships with C level executives
You enjoy collaboration and problem solving
What You Have Done:
Impeccable English skills both verbal and written (conversational Spanish is a plus)
Naturally ambitious and loves closing new business
5+ years of experience in technology sales
Proven track record in the achievement of quotas
Knowledge of Open-Source Software market place preferred
Experience selling into Global 2000 accounts companies
Solution selling experiences and mindset
Comfortable with travel and customer-facing opportunities
Customer-centric focus
Experience or interest in agile quick growth companies
Leadership and mentoring with peers and team
Enjoys a global team environment
What's In It For You:
Competitive base salary and commission structure
Uncapped commission; accelerator opportunities
Representing an expert-level open-source services company
Why Percona?
At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.
Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.
If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!
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What We Do
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. With Percona's open source database expertise, your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration, and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Our global experts are available 24x7x365 and have worked with over 3,000 clients worldwide – including the largest technology companies.
Percona is the champion of unbiased open source database solutions and provides the best solution for our customers regardless of their database architecture or platform. Our software is 100% free and open source, and is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs over 250 people (and growing!) located in almost 40 countries. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
