Senior Account Executive

Enterprise Account Executive 

Reporting to the Country Manager in Japan, the Enterprise Account Executive will lead and drive the efforts for the continued growth of Fastly in focused markets.

Our ideal candidate has an extensive Cloud and network of contacts and possesses both a technical sales background selling security and a strong eye for business that enable them to lead and close large engagements at CTO, CISO, CIO, CFO, and CEO levels.

Suppose you are a hardworking and successful salesperson used to introducing and selling highly innovative technical solutions to enterprise companies in the Technology sector. In that case, we believe this could be the role for you!

What you will do

• Development, management, and execution of a Go To Market plan to ensure Fastly meets its objectives of continued growth in the assigned vertical across the territory

• Accountable for driving pipeline, sales, revenue, and meeting or exceeding quota goals

• Lead all aspects of the sales cycle from start to finish both internally and externally including prospecting, discovery, Proof of Concepts, value proposition positioning and pricing, contract closing, and account management

• Work closely with a Sales Engineer to guide prospective customers through demos and during their trial periods

• Develop a technical understanding of the Fastly solutions, the problems they solve for our customers, and where they fit in the broader Edge Computing, Security, and DevOps landscape

• Partner with the account management team to accelerate customer adoption and ensure customer satisfaction

• Collaborate with the key partners across Fastly business including Client Services, Marketing, Product, and Product Marketing to ensure the regional efforts are aligned and executed

• Use CRM tools to enrich Fastly customer database, and report on sales cycles progress; use sales prospecting tools to drive out-bounding activities

What we are looking for

• Successful, established track record of New Business Development experience with senior leadership and C-level executives, within Security sales. Significantly, many experiences have developed new customers. 

• Direct field experience and extensive network of key contacts within the SaaS PaaS/ Cloud Platform sector, including large multi-divisional/multinational companies.

• Self-starter who can demonstrate development, growth, and expansion of a territory

• Proven track record of effective outbound prospecting, managing sophisticated enterprise sales cycles, and accurate pipeline management and forecasting

• Experience with technologies and content delivery network services, security services, cloud-based services, SaaS, PaaS, content management, web analytics, website performance, cloud storage, mobile content delivery, or managed web hosting is helpful

• Independent, self-disciplined, and possesses exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work individually and collaboratively as part of a team

• Prior experience working for a US or Internationally-headquartered company

• Native Japanese speaking and writing skills and business-level English skills

• Location: Tokyo / Remote. Tokyo office will be hybrid. 2 - 3 times in office per week. 

Our Benefit

• Vacation Policy - 20 days of paid time off, in addition to Japanese statutory national holidays. The 20 days are inclusive of statutory vacation days.
• Maternity, Paternity, & Adoption Leave - Statutory benefits are provided. Fastly will also provide up to 14 weeks of top up pay which is given at the return of statutory leave in the form of a bonus. Top up pay is the difference between your regular pay and any statutory government pay for your leave.
• Wellness Days/Week - Fastly created Wellness Days and a Wellness Week to remind employees the importance of finding the right balance between work and self care. Fastly designates Wellness Days and Wellness Week as a time for the entire company to take off work. Wellness days vary throughout the year and change annually.

And also we have,

• Insurance Plans (Medical, Group Personal Accident, Group Long Term Disability, DC Pension)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Internet Reimbursement
• Learning Reimbursement Program...etc