• Responsible for driving revenue growth for large, diverse, complex territories. • Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close a sales pipeline. • Own the development, presentation, and sales of a value proposition. • Ability to understand and sell to or through the partner ecosystem. • Partner with Solutions Engineers & Professional Services to ensure customer success. • Own the entire sales process, and collaborate with team members in business development, customer success, and support. • Become a subject matter expert on all Confluent offerings and competitive landscape.  • Present to C-levels (as required) the entire suite of product applications to negotiate and close deals. • Create and nurture customer relationships, opportunities, and partners that lead to growth opportunities. • Travels to customer sites to identify/develop sales opportunities when required.