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Commercial Account Manager - ANZ

Posted 3 months ago

OfficeAustralia-Sydney

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

Key Responsibilities

  • Revenue Generation: Achieve / exceed quarterly and annual sales quotas through new business acquisition and upselling to existing clients.

  • Sales Cycle Management: Manage complex sales processes from prospecting, qualifying leads, and conducting demos to negotiating contracts and closing deals.

  • Relationship Management: Develop and maintain strong, long-term relationships with stakeholders, including C-level executives.

  • Strategic Planning: Create and implement territory plans and account strategies to identify growth opportunities within the commercial/mid-market domain.

  • Collaboration: Work with internal cross-functional teams (sales engineering, customer success, marketing) to ensure successful client onboarding and solution adoption.

  • Product Expertise: Maintain deep knowledge of Kong's products, services, and the competitive landscape to deliver tailored solutions to prospects and customers.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Experience: Proven experience in B2B sales, typically 2-5+ years, preferably within high-growth SaaS or IT environments.

  • Skills: Exceptional negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.

  • Tools: Proficiency in CRM software (e.g., Salesforce) and sales engagement tools.

  • Familiar with the MEDDICC / MEDPICC sales methodology preferred.

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About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.

Job details
Workplace
Office
Location
Australia-Sydney

Increase developer productivity, security, and performance at scale with the unified platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller

Employees
956
Industry
Software Development
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Company location
San Francisco, California
Specialties
API, APIs, web services, Cloud Services, big data, cloud computing, API management, open source, API analytics, API docs, microservice, microservices, APIM, cloud native, kubernetes, cloud migration, monolith migration, digital transformation, technology, software, software engineering, engineering, API development, developer platform, api innovation, hybrid cloud, professional services, Plugins, API infrastructure, security, monolith to microservices, observability, service mesh, mesh, insomnia, kong, kuma, github, gateway, API gateway, and cloud security

Key team members

Niklas Enge

Niklas Enge

Leandro Dolenc, MBA

Leandro Dolenc, MBA

Claudio Acquaviva

Claudio Acquaviva

Ron Adams

Ron Adams

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