Digital Natives Account Executive

Databricks
London, United Kingdom
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for sales professionals who sell highly technical cloud products and build prospecting motions, with experience in big data or SaaS sales and a track record of exceeding quotas. The role is based in London and involves direct collaboration with senior leadership and C-Level executives.

Best fit for

  • Individuals with a background in value selling and a deep understanding of open source technologies
    — “Experience with Open Source Technologies and build vs buy decision-making”
  • Sales professionals who can quickly demonstrate value and compress decision cycles in high-growth, venture-backed companies
    — “compress decision cycles by penetrating accounts fast and demonstrating value to the customer”

Things to consider

  • Direct reporting to a Director and communication with senior leadership implies high visibility and responsibility
    — “Communicate the account strategy to Databricks Senior Leadership”
  • The role involves working with engineering-centric companies, which may require technical acumen and domain knowledge
    — “Direct influence on the data strategy of the most engineering-centric companies today”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate a clear, repeatable prospecting motion in your resume and interview responses
    — “A creative salesperson with a well-defined prospecting motion”
  • Highlight your ability to exceed sales quotas and drive results in your sales performance metrics
    — “Track record of exceeding sales quotas”
  • Showcase experience in selling technically complex products, particularly in cloud or big data environments
    — “Passion for selling a highly technical product in the cloud”
  • Emphasize your ability to work across multiple levels of an organization, from C-Level to practitioners
    — “Meet with C-Level Executives to Practitioner level to understand how Databricks can improve business outcomes”
  • Include examples of building internal success plans and aligning with customer strategies
    — “Build a plan for success internally at Databricks and externally with your accounts”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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Skills & requirements

Required

Selling Highly Technical ProductsValue Selling MethodologiesClosing New Accounts

Preferred

Open Source TechnologiesCreative Sales Approach

Stack & domain

SellingCloudBig DataAIOpen Source TechnologiesValue Selling MethodologiesCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkLeadershipStrategic ThinkingData StrategyAccount ManagementSalesCustomer SuccessEnterprise SalesCloud SalesSaas SalesBig Data SalesAI Sales

About the role

Original posting from Databricks

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 Want to help solve the world's toughest problems with big data and AI? This is what we do everyday at Databricks.

As a Digital Native Account Executive at Databricks, you are passionate about selling to high-growth, venture-backed companies. You will sell to the most technologically advanced companies in the world. You know how to compress decision cycles by penetrating accounts fast and demonstrating value to the customer. You love understanding a product in depth and are passionate about communicating its value to customers. Always looking for new opportunities, you will close new accounts while growing existing accounts. You will report directly to the Director of Digital Natives. Along with the chance to close exciting deals, we also offer accelerators above 100% quota accomplishment.

The impact you will have:

Direct influence on the data strategy of the most engineering-centric companies today

Communicate the account strategy to Databricks Senior Leadership

Allocate Databricks resources to break into new accounts and grow existing accounts

Meet with C-Level Executives to Practitioner level to understand how Databricks can improve business outcomes

Exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue targets

Use a creative, fail-fast approach to selling and creating value for customers

Build a plan for success internally at Databricks and externally with your accounts

What we look for:

Passion for selling a highly technical product in the cloud

Experience with Open Source Technologies and build vs buy decision-making

Experience with Value Selling Methodologies

A creative salesperson with a well-defined prospecting motion

Sales experience within big data, Cloud, or SaaS sales

Track record of exceeding sales quotas

Success in closing new accounts while working on existing accounts

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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Compliance

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