Full-Time

Enterprise Account Executive

Posted on 9/25/2025

Astronomer

Astronomer

201-500 employees

Data orchestration platform for Airflow deployments

Compensation Overview

$260k - $300k/yr

+ Equity Component

San Diego, CA, USA

Hybrid

This role includes some travel to meet with customers and teammates.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Salesforce
Marketing
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 5+ years of sales experience, ideally in SaaS, data platforms, or cloud solutions
  • 2+ years of field experience with in-person customer engagement
  • A history of consistent success in meeting or exceeding new business quotas in high-growth environments
  • Comfort with data orchestration, analytics, or related technologies is a plus
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to build trust and influence senior stakeholders
  • A proactive mindset with perseverance and accountability
  • Proficiency in CRM tools (Salesforce) and sales enablement platforms
Responsibilities
  • Lead the full sales cycle from prospecting to close while partnering closely with clients and teammates
  • Identify, qualify, and pursue opportunities through outbound and inbound channels
  • Deliver compelling demonstrations and craft tailored proposals that align with customer goals
  • Collaborate with marketing, sales engineering, and product to ensure a smooth handoff and long-term success
  • Keep current on industry trends and competitive offerings to position Astro as the leading solution
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience selling to data teams, developers, or technical buyers
  • Background in data orchestration or Airflow-related technologies
  • Prior success in a startup or high-growth environment

Astronomer.io provides a data orchestration platform built on Apache Airflow to design, deploy, and manage data pipelines. Its Astro product centralizes visibility and control over data flows, unifying data across clouds and teams with 1500+ integrations, while offering zero-downtime Airflow upgrades, a local development environment, real-time alerts, and pipeline health monitoring. The platform emphasizes broad cross-cloud integration, strong security, and compute efficiency to speed up pipeline development and deployment. The goal is to help organizations accelerate their data strategy, reduce scheduling delays, and achieve measurable ROI with reliable, observable pipelines.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$373.8M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $93M Series D funds Astro R&D and EMEA/APAC expansion.
  • EMEA ARR grows 122% YoY with 80% customer increase since 2024.
  • Red Hat veteran Matt Simontacchi leads go-to-market strategy.

What critics are saying

  • CEO Andy Byron and CTO Cabot resign after Coldplay scandal.
  • AWS MWAA undercuts Astro pricing in finance and e-commerce.
  • Airflow 3.0 release in 2025 enables self-hosting, slashing SaaS revenue.

What makes Astronomer unique

  • Astro unifies DataOps layers on Apache Airflow for enterprise AI orchestration.
  • Astro Private Cloud ensures EU data sovereignty with Remote Execution.
  • Astro delivers 70% higher uptime than DIY Airflow setups.

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Company News

Yahoo Finance
Apr 13th, 2026
Astronomer hires Red Hat veteran Matt Simontacchi as president of field operations

Astronomer has appointed Matt Simontacchi as President of Field Operations. Simontacchi joins from Red Hat, where he spent nearly 19 years in expanding leadership roles, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager of North America, overseeing nearly $3 billion in annual revenue. At Astronomer, Simontacchi will report to CEO Pete DeJoy and lead go-to-market strategy for Astro, the company's unified orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow. His appointment comes as artificial intelligence reshapes enterprise data infrastructure. During his tenure at Red Hat, Simontacchi helped scale the company from an emerging open-source business to an industry leader with nearly $7 billion in annual revenue. He played a key role in driving enterprise adoption of technologies including Linux and Kubernetes.

PR Newswire
Mar 19th, 2026
Astronomer EMEA surges 122% ARR with 80% customer growth powering AI orchestration

Astronomer, the company behind data orchestration platform Astro powered by Apache Airflow, has reported 122% year-over-year ARR growth in its EMEA business. The company's customer count in the region grew 80%, with EMEA now accounting for nearly 20% of total business since operations began in 2024. The growth is driven by demand for data and AI orchestration that meets Europe's strict data governance and compliance requirements. Astronomer offers deployment options including Astro Private Cloud and Remote Execution, which allow organisations to maintain data sovereignty whilst managing orchestration workflows. According to Gartner, the DataOps tools category is growing at over 21% annually. Astronomer holds 17% market share, the largest amongst vendors including AWS, Google and Microsoft, and grew cloud revenue 88% year-over-year.

NRG Media
Aug 19th, 2025
Chris Martin hopes to 'make lemonade' following Coldplay kiss cam scandal

In addition to becoming nearly endless meme fodder, both Bryon and Cabot resigned from Astronomer following the incident.

ABC7
Jul 26th, 2025
Gwyneth Paltrow's latest role is 'very temporary' Astronomer spokesperson

Kristin Cabot, the chief people officer of the New York-based tech company Astronomer, has resigned from her role after she was spotted embracing the company's CEO at a Coldplay concert.

The Hollywood Reporter
Jul 26th, 2025
Gwyneth Paltrow Becomes "Temporary Spokesperson" for Astronomer Amid Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal

In a surprising turn of events, Gwyneth Paltrow has become a "temporary spokesperson" for Astronomer in the wake of the viral Coldplay kiss-cam moment involving the company's former CEO and chief people officer.

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