Key Account Director

Postman Postman · Enterprise · Atlanta, GA +3 · Sales

This role is for a Key Account Director at Postman, a leading API platform company. The primary focus is on leading growth within strategic enterprise accounts, deepening engagement, expanding the platform's footprint, and delivering its full value. The role involves building long-term relationships with senior technology leaders, uncovering complex challenges, and driving adoption of Postman's enterprise and platform solutions at scale. It emphasizes strategic account expansion, multi-threaded enterprise engagement, and solution selling, including AI-enabled workflows and agentic AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and grow a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts (e.g., Fortune 500, cloud-first companies, large-scale developer organizations).
  2. Deeply engage with senior buyers—CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Platform, Security, and Collaboration—to position Postman as a critical platform solution.
  3. Drive multi-threaded sales campaigns that expand existing usage and convert massive developer adoption (tens of thousands of users) into enterprise-wide value.
  4. Lead complex solution sales cycles across collaboration, security, API governance, and emerging AI-enabled workflows.
  5. Identify customer pain points and design tailored value propositions that demonstrate ROI and impact at scale.

Skills

Required

  • 10–15 years of enterprise sales experience
  • proven track record in strategic account management and expansion
  • Experience selling technical and platform products (developer tools, SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, or security solutions)
  • Demonstrated success in solution selling
  • History of working long cycles and successfully growing accounts over time
  • Ability to navigate large, complex organizations with thousands of users and multiple stakeholders
  • Collaborative mindset with experience working closely with technical teams (solutions engineers, architects, CTOs)
  • Deep understanding of enterprise buyer personas (security, collaboration, platform, developer productivity)
  • Curiosity and fluency in emerging technologies, particularly AI/agentic AI, and how they can automate workflows and deliver customer value
  • Strong executive presence, relationship-building skills, and the ability to influence at the C-suite level

Nice to have

  • API platform knowledge
  • understanding of the API lifecycle

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic account expansion
  • multi-threaded enterprise engagement
  • solution selling
  • emerging AI-enabled workflows
  • agentic AI