Kubermatic

Kubermatic

Account Executive (North America) - (f,m,d)

New York, New York, United States · Mid

Work authorization requiredDetected 45 days ago
KubernetesDevOpsPlatform EngineeringCRMSalesAccount ManagementNegotiationCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • As an Account Executive for North America, you will play a key role in expanding Kubermatic's footprint across the US and Canada.
  • This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a high‑ownership environment, understands the cloud‑native landscape, and enjoys working with engineering‑driven customers who value open source, automation, and platform engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage a strong pipeline of enterprise and mid‑market prospects across North America.
  • Own the full sales cycle: prospecting, qualification, discovery, solution positioning, negotiation, and closing.
  • Develop account strategies, stakeholder maps, and clear action plans for key opportunities.
  • Collaborate with our partner ecosystem (cloud providers, MSPs, integrators) to drive joint opportunities.
  • Maintain accurate forecasts, pipeline hygiene, and activity tracking in the CRM.
  • Support for training, certifications, and conference participation.
  • Opportunities to participate in community events, meetups, and our own conference, "ContainerDays."
  • Join Kubermatic and help organizations across North America build and operate modern cloud‑native platforms.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with CRM systems and modern sales tools.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical value into business outcomes.
  • High degree of autonomy, ownership, and comfort working in a distributed, international team.
  • Located in the United States with eligibility to work without sponsorship.

Nice to have

  • prospecting, qualification, discovery, solution positioning, negotiation, and closing.
  • Understand customer challenges around Kubernetes operations, platform engineering, multi‑cloud, and on‑prem automation, and position Kubermatic's solutions accordingly.
  • Work closely with Sales Engineering to run demos, technical deep dives, and proof‑of‑concept engagements.
  • Represent Kubermatic at industry events, conferences, and community activities across North America.
  • Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering to help shape our roadmap based on customer needs.
  • Experience in enterprise or solution sales in the US market, ideally in cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, or open‑source technologies.
  • Proven track record of meeting or exceeding quota in a fast‑paced environment.
  • Strong understanding of modern cloud‑native concepts (Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, GitOps, automation).

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation with a strong variable component.

Benefits

  • Remote‑first culture with flexible working hours.

Company info

  • At Kubermatic, we believe that businesses should focus on their core purpose: writing groundbreaking applications, not operations.
  • In line with our commitment to make Kubernetes as easy as possible, we help IT teams worldwide to fully automate their Kubernetes and cloud native operations across multi-cloud, edge, and on-prem.
  • As one of the top corporate contributors to the Kubernetes project, we develop enterprise-grade software solutions and provide professional services and support to safely navigate and accelerate your cloud native transformation.
  • Our open-source Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform makes it easy to operate thousands of Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure.
  • If you are thrilled by the prospect of joining a technology start-up with a lot of room for your own ideas and personal growth, we definitely should at least have a chat.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Located in the United States with eligibility to work without sponsorship.

This listing is sourced directly from Kubermatic's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.