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Founding Account Executive, KSA

Telnyx· Sales
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Hybrid (Riyadh)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Founding Enterprise AE role based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, building Telnyx enterprise sales in Saudi Arabia with a dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer. Own a named-account list, drive the full sales cycle, and help define the go-to-market playbook for enterprise sales in the region.

Responsibilities

  • Own a territory of 30–40 named enterprise accounts in Saudi Arabia, narrowing to ~10 Tier 1 accounts worth $1M+ in annual potential
  • Build executive relationships — get in the room with CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering, and line-of-business owners
  • Run the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, design the commercial architecture with your FDE, negotiate, and close
  • Sell production outcomes, not individual products — lead with deploying AI/agent/workloads in customer environments
  • Agree the commercial destination before any custom work begins — no free discovery or free development
  • Maintain disciplined POC management: every POC has a named executive sponsor, written success criteria, production pricing discussed, a decision date, and a signed commercial document
  • Expand the account — one workload becomes three, one $500K customer becomes a $2M customer
  • Build local references and case studies in your market
  • Provide accurate pipeline reporting and forecasting — no surprises

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of enterprise sales experience selling into the Saudi Arabian or broader GCC market — CPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, telecom, AI/ML, or similarly technical infrastructure
  • Proven track record of consistently exceeding quota ($1M+ deals)
  • Experience selling to both executive and technical buyers
  • Hunter mentality — you build your own pipeline and thrive on outbound, in-person selling
  • Strong consultative selling skills and ROI storytelling for technical and business buyers
  • Familiarity with sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, etc.)
  • Comfortable with modern sales tools (Salesforce, Outreach, Gong, etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Arabic
  • Willingness to be in the field and visit customers in person
  • Based in Riyadh, or willing to relocate — hybrid role with travel across the Kingdom and broader GCC

Skills

Required:Enterprise salesNegotiationPOC managementROI storytelling
Nice to have:Sales methodologies
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Telnyx owns the full stack from carrier network to AI inference, so there's nothing between your agent and the person on the other end. No handoffs. No lag. Just voice, messaging, and AI that keeps up.

Carrier-owned global communications platform for voice AI agents, SIP trunking, programmable voice, SMS/MMS, and AI inference. Single vendor for the full voice-AI stack on a Tier-1 network across 40+ countries.

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