Account Executive, Commercial New Logo

Temporal · Hybrid · Atlanta, GA

Open 5 days

New Business: you win brand-new customers.

Base: $100K
OTE: Not disclosed
Quota attainment: Not disclosed
Posted: 6d ago

Why it matters: OTE tells you what you could earn. Attainment tells you how realistic it is.

Ask: “What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?”

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The job

What you'd do

Find new customers for Temporal, get them set up, and help them use it more over time. The job is remote and covers a broad group of customers.

What you'd sell

Keeps app tasks finishing even when servers crash

When an app runs a chain of steps, like charging a card and then shipping an order, every step must finish. The problem is, a server crash halfway through can charge a customer and never ship the order. Temporal is open-source software that helps developers build apps that keep going through crashes, so every step still finishes.

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Who you'd sell to

Not stated in the posting.Ask: “Who's the economic buyer, and who else is in the deal?”

Where deals come from

A mix. Some leads come to you, some you find yourself.

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Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay: Base is listed but not OTE. Ask what the variable is and how many people hit it.
Transparency: Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle. Ask about all five.
Time on market: Open 5 days.
Company hiring: Ramping up: posted 9 sales roles in the last 30 days.

Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

1.
What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?
OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.
2.
What percentage of reps on the team have been here more than 18 months?
Tenure shows whether people stay long enough to get paid.
3.
Has the comp plan changed in the last 12 to 18 months? What changed?
A plan that changes every year means the goalposts keep moving.
4.
Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?
Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.
5.

Before You Apply

Find out where you fit, and where you don't, before you hit submit.

Why I built it this way ↓

Most résumé tools try to make you look like a match. I'd rather help you find out if you are one.

Nothing made up.
Nothing goes on your résumé that you didn't do. If a line would need a number you didn't give me, I ask. I don't guess. On Braun Board it's checked in code, not just promised.
Curiosity before conclusions.
If the job wants something your résumé doesn't show, I ask before I assume. Plenty of sellers have done the thing and just never wrote it down.
Sorting, not selling.
Some jobs won't line up with what you've done. Finding that out before you apply isn't a loss. It's an hour back, spent on a job that fits.
No score.
A match score tells you how well you copied their words. It doesn't tell you whether you'd be good at the job, or happy there.

It's the same way I teach selling. We don't control who says yes. We do control where we spend our time, and whether everything we say is true.

Josh

1 Is the job worth it?

Ask hard questions. Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

No red lights. 1 thing the posting doesn't say, worth asking on the first call.

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2 Where you fit

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What people say about working at Temporal ↓

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Full posting

ROLE SUMMARY Our fast moving and highly successful Commercial Sales team is growing, and we are seeking the next Account Executive to join our team! Temporal is a remote first company. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking and want to influence our future. If you want to be part of an amazing team, have a passion for open-source software, and a desire to build successful customer relationships, then come join us! We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Commercial Account Executive to join the growing Temporal team. This role will become a main point of contact for Temporal commercial customers by leveraging your technical, sales and account management skills to help grow usage and discover new use cases across your book of business. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Activate and implement new logo accounts and get them up and running on the platform - Identify activation and expansion opportunities within your customer base - Be responsible for the success of a broad book of business - Create and grow relationships with our champions - Drive consistent activity, pipeline development and quota attainment - Partner with product marketing to deliver proper messaging and content to commercial Temporal Cloud customers - Design and execute programs to support the identification, design and productionization of new use cases with your customers - Identify ICP accounts and pursue the right opportunities in the right accounts to drive ARR growth - Work closely with our Start Up Program team and Self Sign Up team to ensure success for the right new logo prospects WHAT YOU'LL BRING - Individuals in this role have a passion for technology and the ambition to dive head-first into new challenges - 3+ years experience working in a Sales, Customer Success, Account Management, Sales/Business Development - A background and passion for advocating on behalf of your customers - A mind for technology - we’ll teach you about Temporal and databases, but our customers and product are inherently technical and you should have an aptitude and curiosity to learn about those concepts - The ability to act with a high level of autonomy, you will be expected to take full ownership of your customer portfolio and make key decisions to drive effective customer outcomes - An entrepreneurial mindset - this is a new role at Temporal where you will be required to both deviate from established procedure and often build entirely new process or practices to ensure we best serve this customer segment - Team player and passion for collaboration - Prior experience to tooling like Salesforce, Slack, Outreach, Gong, Common Room - Prior exposure to database, cloud, and infrastructure technology is a plus Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity. Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

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