Telnyx - Founding Account Executive, Singapore
Requirements
• Fortune 500 or large enterprise new business sales experience in Singapore or ASEAN (DBS, OCBC, UOB, Singtel, Grab, Sea Group, Lazada, Shopee ecosystem)• Complex sales cycles including RFPs, POCs, and competitive bake-offs• C-Level selling experience — you can navigate procurement, security, and legal complexity across multiple ASEAN markets• Understanding of SIP trunking, phone number provisioning, carrier networks, or AI/ML platforms• Established relationships in the Singapore and ASEAN enterprise ecosystem• Additional ASEAN language skills (Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Vietnamese, Mandarin)
Responsibilities
• Own a territory of 30–40 named enterprise accounts in Singapore and ASEAN, narrowing to ~10 Tier 1 accounts worth $1M+ in annual potential • Build executive relationships — get in the room with CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering, and line-of-business owners • Run the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, design the commercial architecture with your FDE, negotiate, and close • Sell programmable voice, messaging, Voice AI, wireless, and networking products to both technical and business audiences — from developer teams building on our APIs to c-suite stakeholders evaluating infrastructure partners • Articulate Telnyx's differentiated value (private network, carrier-grade reliability, AI-native capabilities) and navigate objections against competitors like Twilio and Vonage • Agree the commercial destination before any custom work begins — no free discovery or free development • Maintain disciplined POC management: every POC has a named executive sponsor, written success criteria, production pricing discussed, a decision date, and a signed commercial document. POCs end in production or they end • Expand the account — one workload becomes three, one $500K customer becomes a $2M customer • Build local references and case studies in the Singapore and ASEAN markets • Provide accurate pipeline reporting and forecasting — no surprises
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