Sales Account Executive

Pingcap

Singapore hybrid Until 8/23/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted June 5, 2025 Last posted June 5, 2025

Job description

We are looking for a salesperson to start and drive the sales cross APAC who are sharp, creative, and hardworking with an unwavering desire to be the best. The ideal candidate has the experience scaling from 1 to many and been pioneer in the region in the past You are customer focused, metrics driven, embraces a consultative sales philosophy, and are passionate about helping his/her team succeed. Our customers are often application owners, software engineering leaders, product managers, entrepreneurs, and line of business owners. You must love talking to all types of customers about scaling their businesses and helping them solve their scaling issues and drive innovation across many different types of use cases centered around how our customers scale their databases.

5+ years of experience in enterprise sales at an established open source technology company or company with mature cloud offerings (AWS/Azure/GCP, etc.)
Willing to get her/his hands dirty to build the sales operations and playbook from scratch
A deal closer with a track record of winning large deals
Experience and willingness to strive in a startup environment
Preferably with an engineering background, either by academic training or work experience
A player coach with a mind for strategy and process, but who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and help to solve challenging problems for customers directly.
Experience working as part of an overlay team within a go-to-market organization or something similar.
Someone who is always looking to streamline and simplify the way things are done.
Someone with a highly inclusive style who values and celebrates diversity within teams.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science strongly preferred;
Willingness to travel to customer sites.

Close “lighthouse” accounts by working with our solutions architect team
Establish distribution partnerships to accelerate product adoption in the APAC market
Fostering a strong culture of collaboration and customer empathy in your team.
Build the foundation of the sales team to scale product commercialization
Collaborating with other customer facing teams to ensure that your group is meeting the needs of customers, proactively addressing issues as they arise, and managing customer escalations when things sometimes go wrong.

Opportunity to build and shape a powerful, industry-changing database product from the get-go
Working with a globally team of passionate (and compassionate) developers, hackers, and open-source fanatics
Competitive salary
Meaningful equity in a fast-growing enterprise startup
Paid Time off
Reimbursement of Annual Premium for Personal Medical Insurance policies
Awesome, supportive coworkers with a good sense of humor

About this role

Summary

Drive sales across APAC, close deals, and build sales operations.

Job title

Sales Account Executive

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Located in Singapore; remote work not allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

enterprise salesopen sourcecloudbachelor’s degreewillingness to travel

Preferred skills

engineering backgroundstartup environmentstrategycollaborationdiversity

Specializations

enterprise salescloudopen sourcecustomer successdatabase

Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Singapore

Hybrid City