Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?
Do you love collaborating across teams to deliver customer success?
Join our API Security Sales Team!
We work with world leading companies in every major industry to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects, aligning Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.
Become an API Security Sales Specialist
As a Senior Security Sales Specialist, you will be responsible for:
- Being accountable for your sales target and overachieving on that sales target.
- Building customer relationships and qualifying opportunities such that the sales forecast is accurate.
- Working closely with a Sales Engineer and ensuring their time is used optimally.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience in digital cybersecurity, API Security, API Gateway and Cloud Service Providers.
- Have inside sales/phone selling experience in technology and show evidence of success and progression in role
- Have experience in channel first sales motions.
- Display history of consistently exceeding individual sales goals and targets.
- Have experience with technology sales into commercial and/or enterprise accounts, understanding of how to navigate complex organizations.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
