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Founding Account Executive, ANZ

Telnyx Sydney, Australia senior full-time

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Description

We're building a local Enterprise Sales Pod in Sydney, consisting of one Account Executive (AE) and one Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). As the AE, you will own a named-account list of 30-40 enterprise accounts across Australia and New Zealand, working closely with the FDE to turn these accounts into production Telnyx customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Own a territory of 30-40 named enterprise accounts across Australia and New Zealand
  • Build executive relationships with CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering, and line-of-business owners
  • Run the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, design the commercial architecture with your FDE, negotiate, and close
  • Sell programmable voice, messaging, Voice AI, wireless, and networking products to technical and business audiences
  • Articulate Telnyx's differentiated value and navigate objections against competitors
  • Maintain disciplined POC management and expand accounts
  • Build local references and case studies across the ANZ market
  • Provide accurate pipeline reporting and forecasting

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of enterprise sales experience selling into Australia and/or New Zealand
  • Proven track record of consistently exceeding quota ($1M+ deals)
  • Experience selling to both executive and technical buyers
  • Hunter mentality with strong consultative selling skills
  • Familiarity with sales methodologies and modern sales tools
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English

Bonus Points For:

  • Fortune 500 or large enterprise new business sales experience in ANZ
  • Complex sales cycles including RFPs, POCs, and competitive bake-offs
  • C-Level selling experience
  • Understanding of SIP trunking, phone number provisioning, carrier networks, or AI/ML platforms
  • Established relationships in the ANZ enterprise ecosystem

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Fortune 500 sales experience
  • complex sales cycles
  • C-Level selling experience
  • SIP trunking
  • phone number provisioning
  • carrier networks
  • AI/ML platforms

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