Major Account Executive, Accounts- Portland, OR or Seattle, WA

Would you like to build your network? Join our team that provides solutions!

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

You will be maximizing revenue within your territory through selling to New Customers with the Akamai Portfolio. This will include focused selling efforts within our channel and reseller network.

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

• Building and maintaining high level strategic partner / reseller relationships
• Developing a strategic sales plan to create/manage a high-volume sales pipeline through successful execution
• Leading partnerships across field marketing, sales representatives, and resources to ensure a consultative engagement with customers

• Have 5+ years of relevant sales experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Possess understanding of Internet performance, Internet Security, Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Demonstrate successful sales experience in SaaS, IaaS and solutions sales
• Have demonstrated success building and maintaining strategic partner relationships
• Have experience selling with Channel partners
• Show high ethics, integrity, and personal willpower

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.

Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

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.

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Akamai's Flex Base 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.

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - The On Target Earnings (OTE, base salary + commissions) for this position ranges from $173,600 - $312,400/year; a candidate’s OTE is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Akamai provides industry‑leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness;
Eligibility requirements apply.

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.