Corporate Account Executive

About the Job:

The Corporate Account Executive is a hunter-focused role responsible for driving net new business and expanding existing accounts within the mid-market segment. This role requires strong outbound prospecting instincts, the ability to self-generate pipeline, and a proven track record of quota attainment in a SaaS environment. LaunchDarkly is looking for product-oriented, customer-focused, sales-driven individuals to help expand our Corporate AE team. You'll work directly with a manager, sales engineers, and other resources to help customers successfully test, purchase, and adopt LaunchDarkly .
Responsibilities:

- Self-generate pipeline through consistent outbound prospecting into ICP target accounts (this is a core skill for the role, not a supporting one).

- Articulate and sell the value of LaunchDarkly ’s' platform subscriptions

- Prepare for and run discovery sessions with new prospects to surface LaunchDarkly 's core use cases and the value of the usage-based pricing model

- Customize and deliver demos with the Solutions Engineering team

- Run proofs of concept for prospects

- Own, build, and grow relationships with existing customers — driving product adoption and uncovering new expansion opportunities

- Consistently hit revenue targets and accurately forecast on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis

- Educate, evangelize, and guide customers through successful adoption of LaunchDarkly

- Deliver customer feedback to our product and engineering teams

- Keep all data current across SFDC, Outreach, Nooks, Pocus, and Claude

Qualifications:

- At least 1 year of closing experience

- Demonstrated success generating your own pipeline through outbound prospecting

- Proven track record of hitting or exceeding quota

- Exceptional written and spoken communicator

- Highly organized and autonomous, with strong time management

- Comfortable and energized operating in a fast-moving organization

- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated

- Intellectually curious and ambitious

- (Nice to have) Exposure to technical buyer personas (engineering, platform, or IT decision makers)

- (Nice to have) Knowledge or experience in the developer tools space

- (Nice to have) Experience selling to mid-market companies

Pay:

Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 3:

- Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $136,500 - $187,660 **

- Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $122,800 - $168,850 **

- Zone 3: All other US locations - $116,000 - $159,500* *

LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
About LaunchDarkly :

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

- Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages

- Delivering targeted experie