Major Account Executive, New Accounts
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Fa Extu Saasfaprod1. Remote, Japan.
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What you'll do
- Build a sales plan for Cloud offerings that develops the market, creates partnerships and increases product adoption
- Engage customers from senior executives through DevOps teams, showing how the services stand apart
- Work with sales and pre-sales leaders to shape and carry out plans for large enterprise opportunities
- Use your understanding of cloud computing to inform product development and launch market initiatives
What you bring
- At least eight years selling cloud infrastructure or software services to B2B enterprise customers
- You can discuss current and emerging cloud technologies and turn partner and customer relationships into sales opportunities
- You have used a challenger-style sales approach and communicate well in both Japanese and English
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced enterprise cloud seller who can work across sales, pre-sales, product and marketing teams. The position is remote in Japan and calls for strong written and spoken Japanese and English.
From the employer
Would you like the opportunity to work in a dynamic sales role?
Would you like to build customer loyalty?
Join the Cloud solutions Sales team
We work with world leading companies of various industries to make the internet fast, reliable and secure. We have revolutionized successive industries from CDN, to Security and Edge computing. We are setting our sights on the evolving Cloud Computing ecosystem.
Provide innovative Cloud solutions to our precious customers
As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will oversea the go-to-market strategy of our Cloud Computing business. You'll drive market development initiatives, lead sales programs, and collaborate with our Sales, Technical Pre-Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to deliver impactful outcomes for customers.
As a Major Account Executive for Cloud Compute, you will be responsible for:
- Creating a strategic sales plan to drive market development, partnerships, and product adoption for our Cloud Portfolio
- Leading customer engagements that differentiate Akamai's services across all levels, from C-Level executives to DevOps engineers
- Collaborating with Akamai Sales and Pre-Sales leaders to develop and execute opportunity plans for large enterprise clients
- Developing a deep understanding of the Cloud Computing market and driving product development
- Implementing go-to-market initiatives to establish Akamai as a Cloud Computing leader
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years+ sales experience in Cloud Services Sales (infrastructure and/or Software) in the B2B Enterprise market
- Understand existing and emerging cloud technologies, collaborate with Partners and Customers to create sales opportunities
- Execute a challenger sales methodology, challenging conventional thinking for a differentiated sales experience
- Demonstrate high ethics, integrity, and personal willpower
- Have good written and verbal communication skills in Both Japanese and English
About us
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.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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