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Enterprise Account Executive - Nordics

Chainguard
entry level to mid-level
Work Type

Remote

Open to applicants in

Sweden

Seniority

entry level to mid-level

Posted

July 13, 2026


Expected Salary
$100k+
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Job Description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source.

By delivering hardened secure and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on Chainguard helps organizations build faster stay compliant and eliminate risk. 

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders including Anduril Canva Fortinet Hewlett Packard Enterprise OpenAI Snap Inc. and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors including Amplify IVP Kleiner Perkins Lightspeed Venture Partners Mantis VC Redpoint Ventures Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital.

The role in a nutshell:

We’re looking for highly motivated sales executives who have strong market knowledge and enjoy building relationships with key decision makers to evangelize building secure and reliable software.

Our sales team walks a mile in their customers shoes and wants our customers and prospects to see the immense value and expertise Chainguard's solutions offer.

Skills/Job Requirements:

  • Define and execute sales plans for your assigned territory
  • Convey value prop and product differentiators to prospects and customers
  • Forecast meet and exceed quota
  • Through a combination of inbound and outbound leads develop and manage leads funnel
  • Manage business and track opportunities through CRM and other supporting tools
  • Collaborate on and improve all aspects of the sales cycle including product support and sales engineering
  • Understand the competitive market being familiar with competing companies and their offerings

Candidate Background:

  • 5+ years of Enterprise Sales Experience
  • Domain experience with one or more of the following required: Compute platforms (Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure Google Cloud) DevOps Tooling CICD platforms (Github Gitlab jenkins)  and overall SDLC.
  • Strong track record consistently overachieving sales targets
  • Ability to learn new products and processes quickly
  • Competitive/Driven
  • Excellent communication skills verbal and written
  • Team player
  • Must be willing to travel to clients to support sales relationships (if required)
  • Entrepreneurial – Willing to go the extra mile strong work ethic resourceful.

Desired Qualifications:

  • SaaS or Developer tools sales experience
  • Startup experience
  • A strong sales aptitude and fundamental understanding of the sales process
  • A sound tech-savvy business acumen and the ability to articulate a compelling value proposition in a complex and evolving business environment
  • Ability to thrive in an agile environment with an ever-evolving set of solution

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

  • We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
  • We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize plan try things and fail fast.
  • We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus but we also like to enjoy the journey.
  • We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

  • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities bi-annual destination summits and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces phone and internet costs.
  • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion.

    Plus you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes you read that correctly: 10 years!).

  • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents.

    Nothing comes out of your paycheck.

  • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work we need to recharge and reset.
  • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements please apply.

We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability genetic information political views or activity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law.

By submitting your application you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.

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