Strive Sales
Data has become the most valuable commodity on earth and access to this as real-time events stream is vital…
Strive have partnered with a Tier 1 VC-backed open source even streaming vendor, we have been tasked with building their EMEA presales function from scratch.
The Company
+490% YoY growth last 2 years
Series A, raising over $29m in total funding
Cloud native, significantly faster and more scalable than Kafka, allows for faster benchmarking, geo-replication, tiered storage and all in one solution (Pubsub, Queue & Stream)
Sitting within the same investment portfolio as Snowflake, Apple, Okta, WhatsApp
Working with Splunk, Tencent, Iterable taking them away from old school Confluent / Kafka technologies to sign up with this ground-breaking tech
The Leadership
Founders created Apache Pulsar & Apache BookKeeper – streaming technology that was put into open source
Founders previously built and scaled Stream LIO – took it through the Splunk acquisition
Built Pulsar whilst at Yahoo to create a global distributed messaging system for Yahoo
GM of Europe has previously built his own start ups and is extremely entrepreneurial
Founder is a software engineer by trade who really understands the pain points of Kafka and how switching to Pulsar is bleeding edge tech
The Role & Package details
First Account Executive on the ground in EMEA
Market leading salary with sizeable stock options
Opportunity to scale a region
Building towards an IPO
Dedicated support: Marketing, BDR, Sales
Interview Process
1st Discovery call w/ Head of Sales
2nd Competency based interview and role play
3rd Call with VP of Growth and CEO
4th Final call with Chief People Officer
How to apply:
Apply, send me an email, message me on LinkedIn or even just pick up the phone. If you don’t have an up-to-date CV, don’t worry that’s my job to help you with that. Just get in touch with Frankie:
Phone: +44 (0)203 983 0770
Email: [email protected]