CIQ OVERVIEW

CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on.

CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries.

We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk.

Must be located on the West Coast, California preferred. 

The Account Executive - West is an individual contributor role responsible for driving new business and expanding CIQ's footprint across a named account territory on the West Coast (CA and broader Western US, as assigned). This role owns the full sales cycle on assigned accounts, from prospecting through close.

Key Responsibilities

Quota Carriage & Sales Execution

• Carry a full individual quota on named accounts within the West territory.
• Run personal outbound/inbound qualification motion; source, advance, and close opportunities end-to-end.
• Maintain 3–5x pipeline coverage against quota; keep MEDDPICC current on every active deal.
• Negotiate agreements and manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to a signed deal.

Pipeline & Forecasting

• Build and maintain a healthy, accurately staged pipeline against quarterly quota.
• Submit a weekly forecast with commit/upside/downside discipline.
• Maintain HubSpot hygiene on all opportunities (stage, next step, close date, MEDDPICC fields).

Methodology & Account Strategy

• Apply the MEDDPICC framework to every qualified opportunity.
• Build and own account plans for top accounts in the territory; multi-thread within key accounts.
• Partner with the Regional Sales Director on territory and account tiering (T1/T2/T3).

Cross-Functional

• Provide feedback to Marketing on ICP, messaging, and content gaps based on field conversations.