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Commercial Account Executive, US [IC2]

Sourcegraph

Fully Remote
Remote
Worldwide
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Sourcegraph is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);">Who we are</span></h2>
<p>Our mission is to bring clarity and control to the world's most complex codebases. AI is accelerating code creation, but the infrastructure to understand, oversee, and evolve that code hasn't kept pace. Sourcegraph gives engineering organizations full visibility across their systems, precise context for their agents, and the ability to execute coordinated code changes at scale. As agentic development becomes the dominant engineering paradigm, we provide the context layer teams need to take control of their codebase.<br><br>With Code Search, Deep Search, MCP, and Agentic Batch Changes, we deliver on that mission today - giving engineering teams and their AI tools the cross-repo context to navigate massive codebases with confidence, and the ability to make changes across hundreds of repositories at once.<br><br>Companies like Stripe, Reddit, and Leidos rely on Sourcegraph to ship faster and with higher quality. We're backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, and proud to operate as a globally distributed team that values high agency, direct communication, and customer love.<br><br>If you want to build the infrastructure that lets every engineering team - and every agent they deploy - operate on their codebase with confidence, join us.</p></div><h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);">Working hours</span>&nbsp;</h2>
<p>🌎 While we are an all-remote company and hire<a href="https://sourcegraph.notion.site/How-we-engage-talent-outside-of-the-US-218f7193695a46cbb1ef39ef9c1f72d4"> almost anywhere</a> in the world, we do require successful candidates to be located in the United States.</p>
<p>Preferred location:</p>
<ul>
<li>USA</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);">Why this job is exciting</span></h2>
<p>As a Commercial Account Executive, you will have more responsibility, upside, and growth potential than anywhere else otherwise comparable. We strive to make Sourcegraph the best company where exceptionally talented people can thrive. If you join us, we know you’ll make a big impact!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here’s what you can expect in your first year:</p>
<p><strong>📅 Within one month, you will…</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 plan, meet &amp; shadow current members of the Sourcegraph team, understand your quota, and delve into your territory.</li>
<li>Set your OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them.</li>
<li>Start to hold new business meetings and build pipeline</li>
<li>Meet key partners in Customer Engineering, Product, Legal and Engineering teams - they will be key relationships for you throughout your deal cycle.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>📅 Within three months, you will…</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Be well versed in Sourcegraph’s Value Framework.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Understand the unique capabilities of Sourcegraph&nbsp; products and develop compelling strategies to align their value with your prospect’s engineering and business objectives.</li>
<li>Hone your storytelling skills, clearly articulating use cases, sharing real-world customer success stories, and conveying outcomes that matter to both technical and executive audiences.</li>
<li>Identify champions, influencers, and decision makers, building trusted advisor relationships that accelerate adoption across engineering organizations.</li>
<li>Execute a disciplined, repeatable sales process to continuously build and advance pipeline while maintaining accurate forecasting.</li>
<li>Negotiate value based proposals and contracts and surface market insights to the Product team to influence our roadmap.</li>
<li>Consistently hit your activity and pipeline goals.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>📅 Within six months, you will…</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Own the full sales cycle, consistently meeting and exceeding pipeline and revenue objectives.</li>
<li>Collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Engineering, Product, Legal, and Engineering to successfully close technically complex and strategically significant enterprise deals.</li>
<li>Deliver actionable customer feedback across teams, ensuring engineers and product teams remain tightly aligned with customer needs.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>📅 Within one year, you will…</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Be considered a top-performing Account Executive on the team by consistently exceeding your goals.</li>
<li>Set an example for new Account Executives, and assist in training, onboarding and motivating new Teammates.</li>
</ul>
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<h2><span style="color: rgb(243, 78, 63);">About you&nbsp;</span></h2>
<p>You are a results-oriented, motivated, and strategic ‘hunter’ who shares our values and has a passion for all things sales and is laser-focused on generating new greenfield business. Specifically, you will play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our goals by winning high visibility deals and crushing your annual quota.</p>
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Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

Load Shedding Preparedness

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About Sourcegraph

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