Are you ready to power the Worlds connections?

About the role:

Kong is seeking a Regional Sales Leader to help us build and grow the Kong API platform and our Enterprise Sales Team in the Central region. We are searching for a seasoned industry leader who will lead our Enterprise Account Executives in the Central region and drive business results and revenue. Reporting to the GM of Americas, this leadership position will have ownership and accountability to ensure Kong maximizes our market potential bringing in new customers as well as growing our existing clients. This leader will work closely with our other leadership to ensure decisions are driving the overall Kong business goals and our long term vision continues to thrive.

You will play a part in reshaping and leading the incredible growth of Kong. It is the intention of the leadership team to build a high quality, sustainable and strong sales organization. To date, a significant amount of Kong’s success has been gained through the quality of our product, our global account base, our adoption by the open source community and by inbound leads. You will build and strengthen a quality, scalable, regional sales team focused on acquisition of new brands and targeted account plans. Kong is the perfect environment for you to have a significant impact and grow our amazing company. We are a people first organization and expect you to be the same.

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What Youll Be Doing

Growing Kongs presence and footprint in Enterprise accounts in the Central United States
Driving a highly performant and highly accountable culture to achieve and exceed sales goals
Attract, hire and retain top talent through your network and in collaboration with the rest of the org
Provide strong coaching and mentorship on the sales process, PG, qualification and closing
Conduct weekly forecast meetings with your team and report to leadership
Collaborate effectively with Marketing, Partners, and all stakeholders

What Youll Bring

You have been a top performer as an IC, front-line manager, and second-line manager with a track record of overachievement
Accurate forecasting at the individual and team levels
Ability to recruit, develop, and retain top talent
Strong territory management at a regional level
Proven systems/methodology for consistent pipeline generation
Experience using and teaching sales methodologies
Energy, passion, and rigor in your career as a Sales leader

Kong has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to specific candidate location, role, skill set and level of experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards including sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role. Benefits may vary depending on location. US based employees are typically offered access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short and long term disability benefits, basic life and AD&D insurance, among others. The typical On target earnings range for this role in the US is $360k-400k.

About Kong:

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become API-first and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.

83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!

For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

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