Senior Strategic Account Executive Existing Accounts- East or Central Region

Would you enjoy working with the world's leading brands?

Are you passionate about building relationships and ensuring customer success?

Join our team that provides solutions!

Our team works with leading companies in every major industry to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500 we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Strategic Account Executive you will increase revenue through selling into established large strategic accounts and prospecting new customers through a named account list. You will work with multiple business units in a fast paced and innovative environment. You will champion Akamai's brand and relationships to bring value to new and returning customers.

As a Senior Strategic Account Executive Existing Accounts you will be responsible for:

• Building relationships by bringing solutions to organizations looking to solve large scale security and performance challenges
• Leveraging your network to help open doors and start new relationships
• Partnering and enabling with marketing and sales development teams to drive interest and awareness within your region
• Partnering with cross-functional team to increase adoption of Akamai services across various verticals and use cases

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate success in relevant net new customer acquisition experience
• Have demonstrated success selling Infrastructure Application security network web performance products and services to enterprises
• Be passionate about building relationships with customers by delivering on the outcomes they are looking to achieve
• Display an ethical approach to sales show integrity personal drive and uphold Akamai values in every situation

About us

At Akamai we make life better for billions of people trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events scrolling social media watching your favorite series or managing your savings we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build secure and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health well-being finances and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home in an office or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - The On Target Earnings (OTE base salary + commissions) for this position ranges from $245000 - $441000/year; a candidate’s OTE is determined by various factors including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare 401K savings plan company holidays vacation (in the form of PTO) sick time family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

What We Do

At Akamai we make life better for billions of people billions of times a day. Every moment billions of people all over the world are using the internet to shop play games look after finances learn remotely share videos connect across the world and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build deliver and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing security and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!

Why Work With Us

Our people are devoted determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse and we love to collaborate across the world.

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