About the job
At Upbound, we are revolutionizing the construction of modern infrastructure for the Agentic AI Era. As the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane, we are developing the Intelligent Control Plane, a transformative platform layer that enables infrastructure to be programmable, autonomous, and composable.
Our mission is to empower AI-native enterprises with a foundational platform layer that allows teams to provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale, ensuring readiness for both human and AI agents. We collaborate with top cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to accelerate organizational agility and confidence.
Currently, Upbound serves Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers in over 100 countries. With over 100M downloads of Crossplane and a user base of more than 1,000 teams globally, we are a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, having raised $69M to date. To learn more about us, visit upbound.io.
The Strategic Account Executive role is an external sales position focused on developing, managing, and closing business opportunities for Strategic Enterprise clients in the North America region. This position plays a pivotal role in our field sales organization. As a Strategic Account Executive, you will collaborate with our demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide prospective customers through a solutions sales journey aimed at modernizing their cloud platform architecture. You will be expected to cultivate a deep understanding of our clients' challenges to ensure they achieve positive business outcomes with Upbound’s innovative solutions.
This role will work cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales development, and customer success teams to foster strong client relationships and provide strategic account leadership throughout both the pre-sales and post-sales processes.
