We’re the creators and primary maintainers of Crossplane , and we’re building the Intelligent Control Plane —a new platform layer that makes infrastructure programmable, autonomous, and composable . Our mission is to power the AI-native enterprise with a foundational platform layer that helps teams provision, operate, and adapt infrastructure at scale—so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents . We partner with leading cloud providers, ISVs, and open-source communities to help organizations move faster with greater confidence.

Today, Upbound supports Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across 100+ countries . Crossplane has surpassed 100M+ downloads and is used by 1,000+ teams worldwide . We’re a Series B company backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital , and we’ve raised $69M to date.

The Strategic Enterprise Account

Executive role is an outside sales position responsible for developing, managing, and closing business for Strategic Enterprise customers in the North America region and is an integral part of the field sales organization. This person will partner with our demand generation, solutions engineering, and product teams to guide prospective customers through a solutions sales journey of modernizing their cloud platform architecture. This position will require you to develop a deep understanding of the specific challenges customers are facing to help them positively achieve their business outcomes with Upbound’ s solutions.

This role will work cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales development and customer success to provide a tight-knit customer relationship, account leadership and direction in both the pre-sales and post-sales processes. Carry a sales quota that aligns with Upbound’s revenue goals. Function as the primary point of contact and the face of Upbound for new prospects and customers.





Conduct sales activities including prospecting and developing opportunities within existing customer accounts. Manage complex strategic enterprise sales motions with multiple prospect engagement points. Ensure the successful rollout and adoption of Upbound products and services in partnership with pre-and-post sales engineering and support.

Take ownership of your business by documenting the buying criteria, process, and owners to ensure pipeline accuracy. Look for and implement improvements to sales processes, tools, and materials. Travel to customer sites and industry conferences and events as needed.

Sold to large enterprise G2K companies and adept at navigating global, multi-national organizations. Relentless focus on customer success and meeting the needs of present and future customers.

Experience building positive qualified relationships with senior IT and business executives. Clear and articulate written, verbal, online, and in-person communication skills. Professionalism, polish, attention to detail, and strong follow-up.

A collaborative mindset and willingness to help solve problems outside of your immediate lane. Significant experience selling disruptive technology into focused markets. At Upbound, you’ll help shape the systems and strategies that drive predictable, scalable growth in a product-led company embracing usage-based models.

Upbound is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the Agentic AI Era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with Intelligent Control Planes - based on Kubernetes and Crossplane - that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 teams worldwide.

A Series B startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, and Intel Capital, Upbound has raised $69M to date. Originally posted on Himalayas #

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