Senior Strategic Account Executive, Existing Accounts- East or Central Region

Would you enjoy working with the world's leading brands? Are you passionate about building relationships and ensuring customer success? Join our team that provides solutions!

Our team works with 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.

As a Senior Strategic Account Executive, you will increase revenue through selling into established large strategic accounts and prospecting new customers through a named account list. You will work with multiple business units in a fast paced and innovative environment. You will champion Akamai's brand and relationships to bring value to new and returning customers.

• Building relationships by bringing solutions to organizations looking to solve large scale security and performance challenges
• Leveraging your network to help open doors, and start new relationships
• Partnering and enabling with marketing and sales development teams to drive interest and awareness within your region
• Partnering with cross-functional team to increase adoption of Akamai services across various verticals and use cases

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate success in relevant net new customer acquisition experience
• Have demonstrated success selling Infrastructure, Application security, network, web performance products, and services to enterprises
• Be passionate about building relationships with customers by delivering on the outcomes they are looking to achieve
• Display an ethical approach to sales, show integrity, personal drive and uphold Akamai values in every situation

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.

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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 $245,000 - $441,000/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.