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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

API • SaaS • Enterprise

Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for contract renewals, focusing on maximizing retention rates and identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities within our existing customer base. • Work closely with Account Executives to ensure a seamless renewal process, understanding customer needs and aligning our solutions to meet those needs. • Working several quarters ahead of renewal dates to ensure customer readiness, engaging with the broader account team, partners and customer health data to identify renewal risk, and partner on remedial actions aimed at securing renewal. • Identify expansion opportunities to generate additional revenue, driving those opportunities to closure and/or ensuring that the appropriate account team are engaged to maximize the opportunity • Act as the primary point of contact for renewal-related inquiries, building and maintaining strong relationships with our customers to ensure their continued satisfaction. • Conduct account reviews and planning to forecast renewals accurately, identify at-risk accounts early, and implement strategies to address potential churn. • Leverage customer feedback and insights from the renewal process to contribute to product development and improvement initiatives. • Represent Kong with the utmost professionalism, providing exceptional support and guidance to our customers throughout the renewal process. • Fulfill any additional tasks as required by the manager.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in Sales, Sales Development, or Account Management, with a preference for candidates with a background in enterprise software; knowledge of open source, APIs, and/or infrastructure software is highly advantageous. • Demonstrated ability to maintain and grow customer relationships, with a strong focus on achieving high retention rates. • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, capable of effectively managing customer expectations and closing renewals. • A results-driven approach, motivated by meeting and exceeding targets and objectives. • Strong analytical skills to track and forecast renewal metrics, coupled with a strategic mindset to identify growth opportunities within the existing customer base.

🏖️ Benefits

• A genuine commitment to ensuring customers see the value and benefit from their investment in Kong.