Enterprise Account Executive

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About Tailscale

Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be.

Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

Join our rapidly growing Sales team where you will play an important role at one of the fastest growing companies in the Developer Security space.

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will be responsible for helping some of our largest clients and prospects to evaluate, purchase, and expand their usage of Tailscale as a solution to their company’s evolving networking, security, and compliance objectives. You will partner closely with the Solutions Engineering team, as well as collaborate with the Customer Success, Support, Marketing, and Product teams.

We're an energetic company with a wide variety of backgrounds. We coach each other, share feedback, and collaborate to maximize our performance and earning potential, all the while aligning with our customers' needs. We are one of the fastest-growing VC-backed Dev Tool companies and are looking for folks to help us get to our next stage of growth. You will join a team helping define the future of secure connectivity and modern networking.

Tailscale's product-led growth has created significant enterprise demand from organizations looking to simplify network access, strengthen security, and accelerate developer productivity. As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will work with some of the world's most sophisticated technology organizations to help them modernize legacy networking and security infrastructure.

We are looking for enterprise sellers who know how to create opportunities, not just manage them. You are comfortable building executive relationships, navigating complex organizations, and earning credibility with both technical and business stakeholders. You understand how to translate technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes and can lead customers through transformational technology decisions.

• Own and grow a territory of enterprise organizations, driving both net-new customer acquisition and expansion opportunities
• Proactively self-source pipeline through outbound prospecting activities, including cold outreach, strategic account targeting and networking.
• Take ownership of the full sales cycle from lead to close
• Develop strategic account plans that identify key stakeholders, organizational priorities, technical initiatives, and expansion paths across the account
• Build relationships with Security, Infrastructure, Engineering, Compliance, and Executive stakeholders to drive alignment and consensus throughout the buying process
• Navigate complex enterprise sales cycles involving multiple decision-makers, procurement processes, security reviews, and legal negotiations
• Position Tailscale as a strategic platform for secure connectivity and modern network access by helping customers understand both the technical and business value of the solution
• Lead cross-functional account teams consisting of Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Marketing, and Support to deliver exceptional customer outcomes
• Drive adoption beyond the initial deployment by…