Strategic Account Executive, Enterprise - South Korea
South Korea · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- South Korea
About the role
- As a Strategic Account Executive for South Korea, you'll be one of the foundational members of the enterprise sales team in the region.
- You'll help large engineering organizations discover, adopt, and expand their use of Cursor, owning strategic accounts across APJ and working directly with stakeholders.
- This is a rare opportunity to bring a product that engineers already love into some of Korea's most sophisticated organizations and help shape how software gets built in the AI era.
Responsibilities
- Own a named book of strategic enterprise accounts across Korea, driving new logo acquisition and expansion revenue
- Run a disciplined, full-cycle sales process from prospecting and discovery through evaluation, negotiation, and close
- Build and execute account strategies that connect platform capabilities to the technical and business priorities of engineering leaders, CTOs, and developer platform teams
- Create pipeline through outbound prospecting, executive mapping, inbound follow-up, partner referrals, and your own network
- Partner closely with Sales Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality evaluations and ensure customers realize value quickly
- Navigate complex enterprise buying processes, including security reviews, legal negotiations, procurement, and multi-stakeholder approval cycles
- Serve as the voice of Korea's enterprise customers internally, sharing market feedback and deal learnings with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and GTM leadership
- Help establish the enterprise presence in Korea by building repeatable motions, local market insights, and early customer references
- Consistently meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets
Requirements
- 10+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience, ideally selling developer tools, infrastructure, cloud, security, AI, or other technical SaaS products to engineering-led organizations
- Experience selling into strategic or large enterprise accounts in Korea
- Comfortable navigating complex buying committees across engineering, IT, security, legal, procurement, finance, and executive stakeholders
- True hunter who proactively builds pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, creative sourcing, executive engagement, and persistent follow-up
- Strong command of pipeline management, account planning, and forecasting across a strategic book of business
- Energized by technical products and able to hold credible conversations with senior engineers, platform leaders, and CTOs about how technology fits into modern development workflows
- Self-starter who thrives in an early-stage, resource-constrained environment and can build process, playbooks, and regional learnings as you go
- Care deeply about AI and believe transforming how software is written is one of the most important problems to work on
Skills
- Enterprise B2B Sales
- Pipeline Management
- Account Planning
- Forecasting
- Outbound Prospecting
- Full-cycle Sales