CareerPlan

Founding Account Executive, ANZ

Sydney OnsiteFull-time2026-09-14 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Founding Enterprise Account Executive building a new sales pod in Sydney to own a named-account list of 30–40 enterprise accounts across Australia and New Zealand, turning them into production Telnyx customers.

Role type

Founding Enterprise Account Executive (ANZ)

Builds

Production Telnyx customers (AI contact center, SOC/NOC agent, global communications, connected mobility, enterprise inference) for enterprise accounts in Australia and New Zealand

Domain

Telecommunications / Cloud Communications (CPaaS/UCaaS) in Australia and New Zealand

Required skills

Enterprise sales experience, executive relationship building, full sales cycle management, consultative selling, pipeline forecasting, POC management, account expansion

Preferred skills

Fortune 500 sales experience in ANZ, C-Level selling, RFP/competitive bake-off experience, SIP trunking/Carrier network knowledge, AI/ML platform sales

Technologies

Salesforce, Outreach, Gong, Telnyx APIs

Responsibilities

Own a territory of 30–40 named enterprise accounts, build executive relationships with CIOs/CTOs, run the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, manage POCs with commercial agreements, expand accounts, build local references and case studies, provide pipeline reporting and forecasting

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC