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Sourcegraph

Commercial Account Executive, US [IC2]

Sourcegraph
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remote senior full-time $91,500 USD base + $91,500 variable

First indexed 1 Oct 2026

Description

Job Overview

As a Commercial Account Executive, you will have significant responsibility, upside, and growth potential. You will play a pivotal role in helping Sourcegraph achieve its goals by winning high-visibility deals and crushing your annual quota.

Responsibilities

Within one month, you will:

  • Begin 1:1's with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 plan, meet & shadow current members of the Sourcegraph team, understand your quota, and delve into your territory.
  • Set your OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them.
  • Start to hold new business meetings and build pipeline.
  • Meet key partners in Customer Engineering, Product, Legal and Engineering teams.

Within three months, you will:

  • Be well-versed in Sourcegraph's Value Framework.
  • Understand the unique capabilities of Sourcegraph products and develop compelling strategies to align their value with your prospect's engineering and business objectives.
  • Hone your storytelling skills, clearly articulating use cases, sharing real-world customer success stories, and conveying outcomes that matter to both technical and executive audiences.
  • Identify champions, influencers, and decision-makers, building trusted advisor relationships that accelerate adoption across engineering organisations.
  • Execute a disciplined, repeatable sales process to continuously build and advance pipeline while maintaining accurate forecasting.
  • Negotiate value-based proposals and contracts and surface market insights to the Product team to influence our roadmap.

Within six months, you will:

  • Own the full sales cycle, consistently meeting and exceeding pipeline and revenue objectives.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Engineering, Product, Legal, and Engineering to successfully close technically complex and strategically significant enterprise deals.
  • Deliver actionable customer feedback across teams, ensuring engineers and product teams remain tightly aligned with customer needs.

Within one year, you will:

  • Be considered a top-performing Account Executive on the team by consistently exceeding your goals.
  • Set an example for new Account Executives, and assist in training, onboarding, and motivating new teammates.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of B2B SaaS or software sales experience.
  • Proven track record of exceeding sales quotas, while leading with empathy.
  • Experience selling complex products with ACV >= $30k.
  • Stellar interpersonal, presentation, verbal, and written communication skills, across all levels and personas.
  • Enthusiastic about Sourcegraph's mission and the potential for developers to improve the world.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience selling developer or engineering-focused products.
  • Familiarity with software development concepts, CI/CD, version control, or DevOps tooling.
  • Experience managing complex multi-year contracts.
  • Knowledge of security, licensing, and compliance requirements.

Compensation

  • $91,500 USD base + $91,500 variable ($183,000 USD on-target-earnings).

Benefits

  • Equity.
  • Generous perks & benefits.
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