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Enterprise Account Executive

Descope · New York/New Jersey · On-site

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About Descope

Build secure, frictionless identity journeys for your users, business customers, partners, AI agents, and MCP servers with the Descope External IAM Platform. Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

Descope is a developer-first identity provider for customers, partners, and AI agents. Our drag-and-drop approach to identity enables developers to easily deploy authentication, MFA, SSO, and MCP/AI agent authentication without writing custom code. Descope is trusted by over 1000 organizations in production, including GoFundMe, Databricks, GoodRx, Linktree, and You.com. The company has $88M in seed funding led by Lightspeed and Notable Capital.

What they're looking for

  • 7 or more years of demonstrated success selling sophisticated enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity solutions
  • A strong track record of building New York and New Jersey territories, acquiring new enterprise customers, and consistently exceeding revenue targets
  • Experience selling to CTO organizations and engaging Product, Engineering, Security, and Architecture decision makers
  • Strong technical discovery skills and the ability to communicate effectively with developers and technical leaders
  • Experience connecting complex technical solutions to meaningful business outcomes
  • Familiarity with identity, authentication, CIAM, developer tools, application security, or cloud infrastructure is strongly preferred
More about this role

Descope is a developer-first identity provider for customers, partners, and AI agents. Our drag-and-drop approach to identity enables developers to easily deploy authentication, MFA, SSO, and MCP/AI agent authentication without writing custom code.

Descope is trusted by over 1000 organizations in production, including GoFundMe, Databricks, GoodRx, Linktree, and You.com. The company has $88M in seed funding led by Lightspeed and Notable Capital.

We're "descoping" agentic and external customer authentication work from developers' daily lives while helping organizations turn identity into a business enabler. Come join us!

  • Develop and execute a short and long term strategy for generating new logo pipeline across New York City and New Jersey
  • Consistently meet and exceed revenue targets while driving year over year territory growth
  • Build and execute a territory plan that generate pipeline, advances opportunities, and delivers predictable bookings
  • Identify and build relationships with key decision makers across Product, Engineering, Security, Architecture, and executive leadership
  • Own the complete sales cycle, from initial prospecting and technical discovery through negotiation...

Read the full posting on Descope's site ↗

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