Senior Enterprise Account Executive - Chicago

Senior Enterprise Account Executive - Chicago

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs.

The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded App Dynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top‑tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Service Now, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Harness is looking for sales champions and leaders who are as passionate about building the next great software company as they are about blowing out their numbers every quarter.

• Forecasting correctly, communicating clearly, aligning brilliantly with the rest of the team
• Not being afraid of being data driven - including using Salesforce and other tools to track your progress
• Managing full sales cycle from prospect to close
• Collaborating with other teams, including sales engineering and sales development

• A proven track record of driving and closing enterprise deals
• Account planning and execution skills
• Ability to sell C‑Level and across both IT and business units
• Consistent over achievement of quota and revenue goals with a strong W2 track record
• Understands the value of utilizing a strong sales methodology such as MEDDIC when building pipeline and qualifying opportunities
• Proven consultative sales solution skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
• Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast‑paced, complex, collaborative, and team‑oriented environment
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent

This role will be located in Chicago, IL.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Quarterly Harness TGIF‑Off / 4 days
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team‑building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

The OTE for this position is $280,000

Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. The compensation package for this position also includes a commission/variable component, which is based on performance, plus equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./careers

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.