Enterprise Account Executive

Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API. With Fauna, developers can simplify code, reduce costs, and ship applications faster by replacing their database infrastructure with a highly productive and programmable data API that combines the power of custom business logic with the ease of TypeScript. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute engine is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure. Itself a serverless offering, Fauna is quick to get started with and lets developers experience freedom from database operations at any scale.
We're disrupting a $60B+ operational database market, growing quickly, and looking to hire, develop and empower the best! You'll be working with a talented team of people who have built highly successful companies and globally-distributed systems at companies such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Okta, Databricks, Oracle, Cloudera, MongoDB, NewRelic and Twitter.
As a Founding Enterprise AE at Fauna, you will work closely with our VP of Sales to launch our Enterprise focused Sales led GTM strategy and be tasked with engaging Enterprise prospects, building competent sales pipeline and driving high value Enterprise Logo acquisition. You understand that as an operational database, Fauna is a core and foundational element of our customer's applications. By aligning to both technical and business outcomes, and building the necessary relationships and plans to drive those outcomes, you are a critical component of ensuring the success of Fauna's great customers. Working directly with Sales Leadership, you will engage with customers to drive adoption, expand use cases, and grow relationships. As the primary owner of our customers' success, you will also be a cross functional connector, working closely with marketing, product, support, etc. to support our growing Enterprise customer base.
This role offers plenty of opportunity for advancement as you will be joining a fast growth startup on the ground floor, and working with an experienced group of operators invested in teaching you the skills to scale your career.
What you will Do:

• Achieve metric and quota driven goals in support of sales plan
• Manage relationships with and grow Fauna's existing customer base
• Work with SA counterpart and SDR to identify and engage Net-New Enterprise Prospects with the goals of driving adoption, joint success and revenue via Land and Expand
• Prospect and Build competent Sales Pipeline and mutual success plans that align technical goals to business outcomes
• Drive Net-New ARR from Enterprise Target Accounts

What you will Bring:

• 3-5+ years of Enterprise Sales Experience
• Background working at Early Stage Startups
• Track record of high achievement in competitive quota carrying environments
• Experience managing relationships through the customer lifecycle & stages from creating awareness/adoption to landing & expanding net-new customer logos
• A demonstrated ability to correlate technical requirements to business outcomes
• Advanced problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Passion for technology and ability to learn new concepts quickly
• Strong process and operating cadence

Nice to have:

• 3-5+ years experience in Software/SaaS sales
• Relevant domain experience
• Previous experience selling to Application Developers/Architects/Database Admins
• Experience using sales productivity tools (e.g. Salesforce, LinkedIn SalesNav, GoogleSuite, Outreach, ZoomInfo)
• MEDDPICC or Force Management Proficiency

This is a US based, full time position with an OTE range of $250K-$300K per year (50/50 Base & Variable). Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as quota, location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and sales experience. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base/variable salary only, and do not include equity or other benefits which certain roles may be eligible for.
Fauna is a well-funded, high growth startup with the mission to make working with operational data productive, scalable and secure for every software team. We're backed by Madrona Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Addition Capital, CRV, and many Silicon Valley angel investors.
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in San Mateo and Seattle, Fauna also has a remote employee presence throughout the Americas and Europe. We embrace a hybrid work culture which offers employees the flexibility to work from home or our office locations depending on their geography. In exchange for your hard work and contributions, Fauna provides you with market competitive compensation, meaningful early stage Equity Grant, and a robust benefits plan.
Building a great company requires talented, passionate, and committed team members. We are relentless in pursuing our mission while working together as one team aligned by our core principles. If you are that type of person who is excited by those pursuits, we want to hear from you!
Fauna is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our company is committed to fair hiring practices, and building a diverse environment for our employees. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, immigration status, or veteran status.
The Talent Acquisition Team at Fauna works primarily on a direct sourcing model; Fauna does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, directly to hiring managers, or any of our employees.