
Enterprise Account Executive at Kestra Technologies (United States)
Kestra Technologies· United States·
Role details
Uncapped Commission · Equity · Health Insurance · Flexible PTO · Remote-First Culture
Summary
This role involves owning the full enterprise sales cycle for Kestra's US East Coast accounts, ranging from $50K–$500K+ ARR. The candidate will build pipeline through outbound prospecting and inbound leads, conduct complex negotiations with technical and business stakeholders, and collaborate cross-functionally to d...
Job description
Location: Remote (US East Coast)
About Kestra
Kestra is the universal orchestration platform — open source, API-first, and built to orchestrate everything: data pipelines, IT automation, business workflows, and AI/agentic systems. Close to 30,000 GitHub stars. Over 10,000 organizations running Kestra worldwide. Mission-critical workloads at JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, Apple, and Crédit Agricole. Two billion workflows executed in 2025 alone. We just closed a $25M Series A led by RTP Global ($36M total raised). We're building the Orchestration Control Plane of the AI Era — and we need someone on the ground in the US to turn open-source traction into enterprise revenue.
The Role
This is a hunter role. You'll own the full enterprise sales cycle on the US East Coast — from sourcing and qualifying opportunities to running complex, multi-stakeholder deals through to close. Your territory covers some of the largest financial services, healthcare, and technology organizations in the world. You won't be handed a playbook. You'll build one. This is our first dedicated enterprise AE in the region, and we need someone who thrives in that kind of environment — high autonomy, direct access to founders, and real impact on how we go to market in the US. A significant part of your pipeline will come from Kestra's open-source community: engineering teams already using the product in production. You'll turn that organic adoption into commercial relationships at the enterprise level.
What You'll Do
- Own the full sales cycle for enterprise accounts on the US East Coast, from first touch to signed contract. Typical deal sizes: $50K–$500K+ ARR.
- Build pipeline through a mix of outbound prospecting, inbound leads, partner referrals, and community-sourced opportunities from Kestra's open-source user base.
- Run discovery and demos in partnership with Solution Engineers. Lead commercial negotiations with both technical and business stakeholders — VPs of Engineering, Heads of Data, Platform leads, and occasionally C-suite.
- Develop account strategies for target organizations: map buying committees, identify champions, understand procurement workflows, and navigate complex enterprise decision-making.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Solution Engineers, Developer Advocates, Marketing, and Product to sharpen messaging, surface product feedback, and align on what Kestra delivers in practice.
- Maintain forecasting discipline. Accurate pipeline reporting, clean CRM, no surprises.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of B2B enterprise software sales experience, closing deals in the $50K–$500K+ range with complex buying committees.
- Proven quota attainment. You've been a top performer — top 10-20% of your sales org — and can show a consistent track record of hitting or exceeding targets.
- Experience selling to technical buyers: engineering leaders, platform teams, data teams, DevOps/infrastructure teams. You earn credibility in technical conversations. You don't need to write YAML, but you need to understand why someone would.
- Hunter DNA. You've built pipeline from scratch, not just worked inbound. Outbound prospecting is part of how you operate, not something you tolerate.
- Comfortable in a startup environment with minimal structure. You build your own playbook, define your own territory strategy, and move fast without waiting for permission.
- Strong communicator who can translate deep technical capabilities into business value for different audiences — from a Staff Engineer evaluating orchestration tools to a VP making a platform bet.
Bonus Points
- Experience selling open-source or developer-focused products where community adoption drives commercial conversion (PLG/open-core models).
- Familiarity with orchestration, workflow automation, data engineering, or infrastructure tooling — you understand the ecosystem Kestra competes in.
- Past experience at a Series A–C stage company where you helped define and scale the sales motion.
- Understanding of land-and-expand sales strategies and usage-based or consumption-based pricing models.
- Existing network of enterprise contacts in financial services, healthcare, or technology on the US East Coast.
What You Get
- Real ownership in a globally distributed, high-caliber technical team. This isn't a cog-in-the-machine role.
- Direct access to founders and influence on product strategy, go-to-market approach, and company priorities.
- A product that sells itself — Kestra is already running mission-critical workloads at Fortune 500 companies. You're not selling vaporware.
- Competitive compensation: strong base + uncapped commission + equity.
- Health insurance, flexible PTO, and remote-first culture.
Why work at Kestra Technologies
- Remote-first: Fully distributed team – work from anywhere (employees in 10 countries including France, US, UK, Germany, India, Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, Nigeria, Ireland).
- Flexible hours: "Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments" – strong emphasis on work/life balance with a generous vacation policy.
- Comprehensive benefits: Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents; hardware/software costs covered; home office or coworking space budget.
- Engineering culture: Open-source, developer-first ethos with a flat, transparent team. High autonomy and ownership – "empower engineers to orchestrate any workflow, in any language, on any infrastructure."
- Growth trajectory: Fast-growing startup (10x YoY adoption, 48.8% headcount growth) – opportunity to shape the product and culture early. Backed by top-tier founders and VCs.
- High-impact roles: Currently hiring for Lead Java Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Head of Sales, Developer Advocate, Product Manager, QA Engineer, and more.