The Team + The Role Pendo’s Commercial Sales organization drives revenue growth across growth-stage and SMB customer segments. The team helps customers understand, adopt, and expand the value they get from Pendo while creating a consistent revenue motion across prospecting, acquisition, account management, renewals, expansions, and retention. This work matters because it connects customer outcomes directly to Pendo’s long-term growth. As a Sr. Account Executive, you will own the full customer lifecycle within a primary territory of growth-stage businesses with more than 300 employees, with secondary focus on small to mid-sized businesses. You will serve as the primary point of contact for customers in your book of business, leading net-new acquisition, account management, renewals, expansions, and churn mitigation. You will partner with Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Legal, and Finance to deliver long-term customer value while achieving quarterly sales and retention targets. This role is based in our Raleigh office. What this looks like day-to-day Develop product expertise: Build deep understanding of Pendo’s products and how they solve customer challenges. Use that knowledge to guide discovery, shape solutions, and support both net-new and existing customer conversations. Own the full sales cycle: Manage net-new prospects and current customers from discovery through close. Lead expansion and renewal strategies within your book of business while maintaining clear accountability across the customer journey. Generate pipeline consistently: Build consistent weekly pipeline generation in partnership with business development. Identify new opportunities across your territory and create steady momentum toward pipeline creation and bookings targets. Manage forecast and targets: Own a rolling forecast and maintain clear visibility into pipeline health. Track progress against pipeline creation, bookings, renewal, and retention goals with accuracy and discipline. Le
Account Executive - Commercial (ComS114)
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This position offers a base salary of $145,000 - $185,000. (Total on-target earnings of $290,000 to $370,000) Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking a mission-driven Account Executive to spearhead full-lifecycle capture efforts across the Defense Industrial Base. In this high-impact role, you will shape and lead strategic pursuits that align Defense Unicorns’ unique strengths—secure software delivery, DevSecOps, tactical edge enablement, and cybersecurity—with emerging government needs. You will own the acquisition of new Mission Heroes (what we call our customers) from early qualification through proposal, driving win strategies, forming key partnerships, and aligning technical solutions to mission outcomes. This is a pivotal role within our growth team that directly influences the company’s pipeline, revenue targets, and national security impact. Responsibilities: Drive new
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Proven ability to win complex technical pursuits through the full capture lifecycle. Working knowledge of acquisition processes (e.g., FAR-based contracts, OTAs, SBIR, IDIQ). Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and leadership skills across technical and executive audiences. Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver successful proposals. Familiarity with software factory environments, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, or tactical edge deployments is a strong plus. Deep DIB experience. Who We Are Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market. What We Do We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best pr
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Defense Unicorns
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