At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold “what if.”
What if your ideas could ignite global innovation?
What if your curiosity could redefine the future?
We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it’s like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500, and we’re looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold “what if” can take the world, your community, and your career.
Here, how we empower our people is extraordinary: Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and Cigna Healthy Workforce honors three years running — and what we build is world-class: recognized as CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every “what if” into “what’s next”.
In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox.
SENIOR MAJOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
We have an opportunity for a Senior Major Account Executive to join our team in France, reporting to Senior Director, Regional Sales – Major Accounts. In this pivotal role, you will be focussed on acquiring new accounts, generating new leads, and converting them into long term customers. Collaborating closely with regional enterprise sales teams, partners, business development and solution architects, you will own and coordinate all aspects of the sales cycle, expanding the customer base in the region - relishing the opportunity to challenge and disrupt the market with emerging, innovative and foundational technologies.
Be a Contributor - What You’ll Do
- Cold Calling and Outreach:
- Initiate contact with prospects through cold calling, emails, and networking
- Lead & Opportunity Generation:
- Develop and execute strategies to generate new business leads with a combination of marketing, channel, and personally driven outreach campaigns
- Perform discovery during all stages of the sales process
- Identify, indicate, and implicate pain across multiple personas and levels of the organization through question-based selling
- Conduct 8-10 customer meetings per week
- Relationship Building:
- Build and maintain relationships with prospects to understand their needs and present appropriate solutions
- Develop and influence C level contacts at key accounts
- Cultivate close working relationships with sales engineering and marketing counterparts to drive your Go To Market plan
- Build and maintain your network of channel partners and technical alliance / ecosystem reps to surround prospects; experience working with Hyperscalers is a plus
- Sales Presentations:
- Deliver compelling sales presentations and product demonstrations
- Articulate our Security and Cloud business value propositions
- Pipeline Management and opportunity qualification:
- Manage sales pipeline to ensure a consistent flow of new business opportunities
- Utilize MEDDPICC sales methodology with demonstrable evidence of methodology, go-live plans, and business cases
- Has the ability to elevate conversations beyond project criteria to business outcomes
- Conduct regular Opportunity Reviews and Cadence with key stake holders and Infoblox Management
- Sales Target Achievement:
- Set territory plan with measurable objectives to build pipeline and drive sales growth
- Meet or exceed monthly and quarterly sales targets
- Prepare and present accurate forecasts, tracking, and sales plans
Be Prepared - What You Bring:
- 10+ years in successful technology sales experience with experience in a hunter role focused on new business acquisition
- References from C-levels in at least 3 accounts where you have successfully broken in with a portfolio of products
- Proven track record of managing 20+ Global 1000 (or like-size) prospect accounts, breaking in with 6-figure ACV deals
- Successfully disrupting incumbent technologies and challenging the status quo by successfully sold emerging technologies (i.e. technologies that are not part of an established market)
- Cultivating Partner ecosystems, including channel, hyperscaler and tech alliances
- Selling a portfolio of products in multi-stakeholder customer engagements (Economic Buyer, CIO, CISO, Finance, Risk/SecOps, etc.)
- Value selling, including using advanced business value assessments (BVA) or ROI models
- Experience selling and opening accounts at the executive level
- Track record of disrupting incumbent technologies and challenging the status quo by introducing emerging technologies
- Proficient with using CRM software and other sales tools (including by not limited to: Salesforce.com, Clari, Highspot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo / 6sense
- Excellent communication skills and highly self-motivated
- Bachelor’s degree
Be Successful — Your Path
First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors, and map the systems and stakeholders that rely on your work
Six Months:
- You will have built at least $1m ACV in new business-qualified pipeline
- Closed your first opportunity
- Implemented a territory plan
- Maintaining an activity level of 8-10 customer meetings a week
One Year:
- You will have built at least $2m ACV in new business qualified pipeline and closed at least $500K ACV in new business bookings
- Have a qualified 4x pipeline of business
- Have added 25% new logo accounts to your prospect list
Belong— Your Community
Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you’ll grow and belong here.
Be Rewarded — Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong
- Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
- Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
- Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a “No Jerks” policy that keeps collaboration healthy
- Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
- Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
Ready to Be the Difference?
Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis
Skills Required
- 10+ years of successful technology sales experience
- Experience in a hunter role focused on new business acquisition
- References from C-level contacts at at least three accounts where the candidate successfully introduced a product portfolio
- Track record managing 20+ Global 1000 or similarly sized prospect accounts
- Experience closing six-figure annual contract value deals
- Experience selling emerging technologies and disrupting incumbent technologies
- Experience cultivating channel, hyperscaler, and technology alliance partner ecosystems
- Experience selling portfolios in multi-stakeholder engagements involving economic buyers, CIOs, CISOs, finance, risk, and security operations
- Value-selling experience, including business value assessments or return-on-investment models
- Experience opening accounts at the executive level
- Proficiency with CRM software and sales tools, including Salesforce.com, Clari, Highspot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, or 6sense
- Excellent communication skills and strong self-motivation
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience working with hyperscalers
Infoblox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Infoblox and has not been reviewed or approved by Infoblox.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company materials emphasize health and insurance for employees and families, mental-wellbeing resources, wellness programs, ERGs, and community/connection perks. Office amenities such as free lunches on collaboration days, massages, snacks, fitness centers, and EV charging are highlighted in key sites.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described to include “unlimited” PTO in the U.S., a year-end shutdown, and 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually. These elements indicate breadth in paid time away offerings.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Sales compensation is presented with six-figure bases and tiered OTEs, indicating strong upside when targets are met. Public sales community data signals competitive OTEs for roles like sales engineers and AEs when attainment is achieved.
Infoblox Insights
What We Do
Infoblox unites networking and security to deliver unmatched performance and protection for a world that never stops. By providing real-time visibility and control over who and what connects to the network, we use intelligent DNS and user context to stop threats other solutions will miss, enabling organizations to build safer, more resilient environments. We’re continually supporting more than 13,000 customers—including 92 of Fortune 100 companies, as well as emerging innovators—by building the brightest, most diverse teams and by thoughtfully engineering intelligent networking and security solutions for an increasingly distributed world.
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