Senior Account Executive, Growth

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Hiring Remotely in London, England, GBR
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Software
The Role
Own and expand a portfolio of named enterprise accounts across EMEA. Lead complex, multi-year sales cycles; build account strategies; engage technical and executive stakeholders; identify expansion opportunities; articulate ROI; drive adoption and renewals; coordinate cross-functional teams; and accurately forecast revenue. The role requires strong enterprise software sales experience, technical credibility, solution-selling expertise, and success closing high-value deals in complex organizations.
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Role Summary

Temporal is shaping the future of application development by enabling organisations to build, scale, and run resilient applications. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Enterprise Account Executive to join our Growth team and drive revenue within some of the largest and most complex enterprise organisations within EMEA.

In this role, you will own a small portfolio of named accounts, selling to highly technical personas such as software engineers, engineering leaders, architects, and executive stakeholders. As a strategic partner to our customers, you will lead a cross functional account team, uncover expansion opportunities across multiple business units, and drive long-term adoption of Temporal’s solutions. Your ability to balance executive presence with technical credibility, combined with a partner-oriented and resilient mindset, will enable you to thrive in long, complex sales cycles within a high-growth environment.

Come work with some of the brightest minds in the tech industry and help transform how modern applications are built. You will contribute to the growth of a category-defining company at the forefront of innovation.

 
What You'll Do
  • Own and manage the entire sales lifecycle within a defined set of named enterprise accounts, from strategic planning to expansion and renewal.

  • Develop and execute deep, multi-year account strategies to expand Temporal’s footprint across multiple divisions, teams, and buying centres.

  • Multi-thread across software engineers, architects, engineering leaders, and executive stakeholders to understand business and technical priorities.

  • Lead complex, value-based and ROI-driven sales motions that align Temporal’s capabilities to enterprise-wide initiatives.

  • Navigate sophisticated technical and organisational discussions, positioning Temporal as a long-term platform partner.

  • Build trusted advisor relationships at the executive and practitioner levels, driving adoption and long-term customer success.

  • Partner closely with customer success, solutions architecture, product, RevOps, and deal desk to deliver cohesive, win-win outcomes.

  • Drive enterprise expansion through solution selling, enablement, and adoption-led growth motions.

  • Adapt and execute on account strategies to meet the evolving needs of large, complex organisations.

  • Manage and accurately forecast your business in SDFC.

What You'll Bring
  • Demonstrated expertise in enterprise software sales, typically gained through 10+ years of experience in similar roles.

  • Proven success owning and expanding named strategic enterprise accounts with long sales cycles and high deal complexity.

  • Strong solution-selling background with the ability to articulate ROI and business value across multiple business units.

  • Deep technical and business acumen, with the ability to bridge conversations from software engineers to C-level executives.

  • Demonstrated success navigating political complexity and closing 7 figure, multi-year deals within large, matrixed enterprise organisations.

  • Exceptional ability to multi-thread across executives, engineers, and diverse buying centres.

  • Grit, resilience, and comfort operating in long, high-stakes sales cycles.

  • Executive presence paired with approachability and credibility with technical audiences.

  • Experience with developer tools, infrastructure platforms, or highly technical products.

  • Familiarity with consumption-based or adoption-driven sales models.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise software sales or similar roles
  • Proven success owning and expanding named strategic enterprise accounts
  • Experience managing long sales cycles and highly complex enterprise deals
  • Strong solution-selling background with ability to articulate ROI and business value
  • Deep technical and business acumen spanning software engineers to C-level executives
  • Success navigating complex organizations and closing seven-figure, multi-year deals
  • Ability to multi-thread across executives, engineers, and diverse buying centers
  • Grit, resilience, and comfort operating in long, high-stakes sales cycles
  • Executive presence and credibility with technical audiences
  • Experience with developer tools, infrastructure platforms, or highly technical products
  • Familiarity with consumption-based or adoption-driven sales models

Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Temporal Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Temporal Technologies.

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.

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The Company
HQ: Bellevue, Washington
501 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

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