About the job
Upbound is 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 designed to make infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable.
Our mission is to empower the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform that enables teams to provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale, ensuring readiness for both human and AI agents. We collaborate with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations accelerate their operations with enhanced confidence.
Currently, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers in over 100 countries. Crossplane has reached over 100 million downloads and is utilized by over 1,000 teams globally. We are a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, having raised $69 million to date. Discover more at upbound.io.
The Strategic Account Executive for North America is an essential outside sales role focused on developing, managing, and closing business with Strategic Enterprise clients. This position is vital to our field sales organization and will require collaboration with our demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide prospective customers through the sales journey of modernizing their cloud platform architecture. You will cultivate a profound understanding of the unique challenges faced by customers to effectively assist them in achieving their business objectives with Upbound’s solutions.
This role necessitates working cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales development, and customer success teams to foster strong customer relationships and provide leadership during both pre-sales and post-sales processes.
