Senior Major Account Executive, New Accounts

Posted 5 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Akamai powers and protects life online by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible.
The Role
Regional sales leader focused on new customer acquisition in Australian media and commerce. Build and manage high-volume pipeline, collaborate with sales engineers and channel partners, upsell existing accounts, execute territory plans, record activity in CRM, and act as primary contact to stakeholders to achieve quarterly and annual targets.
Summary Generated by Built In

Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?

Do you love selling innovative solutions to prospects?

Join our APJ Sales team!

Our team works with world leading companies to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects. Aligning Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be a regional expert in new customer acquisition sales. Your primary focus will be prospecting and closing new logos for Akamai in commerce and media industry segments. Success will be clearly defined and there will be room for creativity to achieve your targets.

As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be responsible for:

  • Utilizing marketing resources to create/manage a high-volume sales pipeline across the Australian media and commerce market verticals
  • Working in integrated partnerships with sales engineers, internal support resources and channel partners to ensure consultative engagement
  • Planning and executing on new customer acquisition within territory guidelines
  • Close-working and collaboration with field marketing and sales development functions
  • Recording customer development activities within a CRM to ensure operational excellence
  • Acting as the primary point of contact to key internal and customer stakeholders to build relationships and customer success

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 8+ years selling experience
  • Demonstrate successful sales experience in new business acquisition
  • Have experience in selling cyber security software solutions to Enterprise level customers
  • Have a proven track record in over-achieving quarterly/annual quotas with enterprise level new customer targets
  • Have high ethics, integrity, and be very self-motivated
  • Demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers including at the C-suite level

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Skills Required

  • 8+ years selling experience
  • Proven success in new business acquisition sales
  • Experience selling cybersecurity software solutions to enterprise customers
  • Proven track record of exceeding quarterly/annual enterprise new-customer quotas
  • High ethics, integrity, and self-motivation
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to build trusting C-suite relationships

Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
  • Parental & Family Support Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
10,285 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!

Why Work With Us

Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.

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