Full-Time

Enterprise Account Executive

Updated on 3/14/2025

Harness

Harness

1,001-5,000 employees

Intelligent software delivery and cloud cost management

Compensation Overview

$150k - $162.5kAnnually

+ Commission + Equity

Senior, Expert

Ohio, USA

Category
Enterprise Sales
Sales & Account Management
Required Skills
Salesforce
Requirements
  • A proven track record of driving and closing enterprise deals
  • Account planning and execution skills
  • Ability to sell C-Level and across both IT and business units
  • Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals with a strong W2 track record
  • Understands the value of utilizing a strong sales methodology such as MEDDIC when building pipeline and qualifying opportunities
  • Proven consultative sales solution skills, including the ability to articulate a clear, concise return on investment value statement
  • Ability to maintain a high level of productivity, manage multiple competing priorities, and work effectively under the pressure of time constraints in a fast-paced, complex, collaborative, and team-oriented environment
  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent
Responsibilities
  • Exceeding your number- Winning new enterprise logos
  • Forecasting correctly, communicating clearly, aligning brilliantly with the rest of the team
  • Not being afraid of being data driven - including using Salesforce and other tools to track your progress
  • Managing full sales cycle from prospect to close
  • Collaborating with other teams, including sales engineering and sales development

Harness offers intelligent software delivery and cloud cost management solutions, focusing on automating the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process. Its platform helps businesses streamline the software development lifecycle, from code integration to deployment and monitoring. A standout feature is the Cloud Cost Management tool, which detects cost anomalies in real-time to help companies manage their cloud spending effectively. Harness operates on a subscription-based model, serving a diverse range of clients, including large enterprises and startups, with a goal of enhancing software delivery quality and efficiency.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$605M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The merger with Traceable enhances security integration in the software development lifecycle.
  • Harness's acquisition of Rig.dev boosts its Kubernetes capabilities for cloud-native applications.
  • AIDA, launched in June 2023, automates development tasks, improving developer productivity.

What critics are saying

  • Integration challenges from the Rig.dev acquisition may disrupt operations and delay synergies.
  • Competition from Google's Code Assist with Gemini 2.0 could challenge Harness's market position.
  • Economic downturns may pressure Harness's subscription model, affecting revenue growth.

What makes Harness unique

  • Harness integrates AI to automate software delivery and cloud cost management.
  • The platform offers a unique Cloud Cost Management solution for real-time cost anomaly detection.
  • Harness's merger with Traceable creates an advanced AI-native DevSecOps platform.

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Benefits

Competitive salary and early-stage stock options

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Flexible work schedule

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Paid Time Off & Parental Leave

Monthly, quarterly, & annual social and team building events

TGIF-Off program

Remote office stipend

Monthly internet reimbursement

Monthly Food & Beverage Reimbursement Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-5%

1 year growth

-7%

2 year growth

-9%
PR Newswire
Mar 5th, 2025
Harness And Traceable Complete Merger, Creating World'S Most Advanced Ai-Native Devsecops Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Harness, the AI-Native Software Delivery Platform™ company, announced it has completed its merger with Traceable, the next-generation API Security Platform, effective March 4, 2025.By joining forces, Harness and Traceable are creating the most advanced AI-native DevSecOps platform, enabling software teams to seamlessly develop, deliver, and secure applications. The combined platform eliminates the need for separate security and software delivery solutions, integrating security directly into every stage of the development lifecycle.With the rise of AI-driven development and increasing security threats, enterprises need a unified approach that ensures applications are secure by design. This merger delivers on that need by combining Harness' expertise in software delivery with Traceable's leading API security capabilities, providing customers with a seamless, automated, and intelligent DevSecOps solution.For more information, please visit www.harness.io .About HarnessHarness is the leading AI-native platform for complete software delivery. It provides a simple, safe, and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses AI and machine learning to monitor the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight, giving engineers their nights and weekends back. Harness customers like United Airlines, Citibank, and Choice Hotels, accelerate deployments by up to 75%, reduce infrastructure costs by up to 60%, and decrease lead time for changes by up to 90%

PR Newswire
Feb 10th, 2025
Harness And Traceable Announce Merger To Shape The Future Of Ai-Driven Software Delivery

Strategic combination creates the world's most advanced AI-Native DevSecOps PlatformSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Harness, the AI-Native Software Delivery Platform™ company, and Traceable, the next-generation API Security Platform, today jointly announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement, creating the world's most advanced AI-native DevSecOps platform.  Together, Harness and Traceable will enable software teams to seamlessly develop, deploy, and secure applications, ensuring security is embedded at every stage of the software lifecycle

Tech Savvy Media
Feb 3rd, 2025
Rig.dev acquired by Harness for billions

The Aarhus-based startup Rig.dev has been acquired by San Francisco's Harness, a leading company in DevOps and platform engineering, which raised over DKK 1 billion last year. Rig.dev, known for enhancing developer experiences on Kubernetes, secured a DKK 15 million pre-seed investment in 2022. With the acquisition, Harness gains exclusive rights to Rig.dev's technology, and the Aarhus team will join the American company.

VentureBeat
Jan 22nd, 2025
How Harness Is ‘Harnessing’ Agentic Ai To Help Improve Enterprise Incident Response With Automated Data Collection And Playbooks

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Incident response, the process of responding to system disruptions and slowdowns, is a critical aspect of IT operations. It’s also an activity that traditionally involves a lot of manual, time-consuming processes.That’s a challenge Harness is taking aim at with a new incident response service. The technology enters early access today as a module on the company’s eponymous platform. Harness got its start in 2017 with an initial focus on continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation for DevOps

VentureBeat
Dec 17th, 2024
Google Upgrades Its Programming Agent Code Assist With Gemini 2.0, Adds Source Integrations

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. On the heels of releasing its new generative AI models, Google updated its Code Assist tools to work with Gemini 2.0 and expanded the external data sources it connects to. Code Assist will now run on the recently released Gemini 2.0, offering a larger context window to understand bigger code bases from enterprises. Google will also launch Gemini Code Assist tools in a private preview. The platform will connect to data sources like GitLab, GitHub, Google Docs, Sentry.io, Atlassian and Snyk. This will allow developers and other coders to ask Code Assist for help directly in their IDEs. Previously, Code Assist connected to VS Code and JetBrains. Google Cloud senior director for product management Ryan J