Enterprise Account Executive - Southern California

MinIO
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in enterprise sales with a technical focus on storage and AI/ML infrastructure.

Best fit for

  • Individuals with 7+ years of direct enterprise sales experience and a strong technical background in storage and AI/ML
    — “A sustained record of enterprise quota attainment and personally led new-logo wins, with 7+ years of direct enterprise quota-carrying experience preferred.”
  • Professionals who can lead technical selling and create quantifiable value for enterprise clients
    — “Lead technical and vision selling across storage, data infrastructure, lakehouse, AI/ML, analytics, and HPC environments”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a high level of technical credibility and direct enterprise deal-closing experience
    — “Experience closing multiple technical enterprise deals and carrying a $1.5M+ quota”
  • This is a territory-owning role, which implies long-term commitment and independence
    — “Own your territory and the full sales cycle”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your history of new account creation and complex deal negotiation in your resume and interview responses
    — “Build new franchise accounts by landing complex enterprise opportunities”
  • Emphasize your ability to shape decision criteria and navigate multi-stakeholder buying processes
    — “Compete against legacy storage vendors... by shaping decision criteria early”
  • Demonstrate your experience in technical validation and quantifying business value for enterprise clients
    — “Control POCs and POVs with clear success criteria, and build business cases that give buyers a reason to act now.”
  • Showcase your skills in co-selling with partners and your ability to drive expansion within accounts
    — “Co-sell experience with cloud, channel, OEM, or alliance partners”
  • Demonstrate a disciplined approach to account planning and CRM management with buyer evidence
    — “Keep disciplined account plans, a current CRM, realistic close dates, and forecasts grounded in buyer evidence.”
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What success looks like

  • closing complex enterprise deals
  • building new franchise accounts
  • landing complex enterprise opportunities
Typical background
7+ years of direct enterprise quota-carrying experiencetechnical credibility in storage, object storage/S3, data infrastructure, data lake/lakehouse, AI/ML, analytics, HPC, or adjacent platforms

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise Quota AttainmentTechnical ValidationValue SellingComplex NegotiationExecutive AlignmentDirect OutreachTerritory BuildingPipeline CreationTechnical Credibility

Preferred

Co-sell ExperienceDisplacing Legacy Storage Vendors

Stack & domain

Enterprise SalesTechnical ValidationValue SellingCompetitive DisplacementExecutive AccessComplex NegotiationStorageObject Storage/s3Data InfrastructureData Lake/lakehouseAi/mlAnalyticsHPCEntrepreneurial OwnershipDisciplined ForecastingAccount PlanningCollaborationEnterpriseAIData Storage

About the role

Original posting from MinIO via Greenhouse

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data.

We are seeking a technical, entrepreneurial Enterprise Account Executive to build and close transformative enterprise business in the Los Angeles region. You will own a territory and the full sales cycle, from account prioritization and pipeline creation through technical validation, quantified business value, executive alignment, negotiation, and close.MinIO's technical credibility opens doors, and your job is to turn it into predictable growth. 

What You Will Do

Own your territory and the full sales cycle: account prioritization, direct outreach, discovery, technical validation, quantified business value, executive alignment, negotiation, and close.

Build new franchise accounts by landing complex enterprise opportunities and creating credible expansion paths across workloads, business units, and regions. You may also inherit  existing accounts with meaningful upsell and cross-sell potential.

Lead technical and vision selling across storage, data infrastructure, lakehouse, AI/ML, analytics, and HPC environments, translating architecture into quantified customer outcomes.

Control POCs and POVs with clear success criteria, and build business cases that give buyers a reason to act now.

Compete against legacy storage vendors, cloud alternatives, direct competitors, and the status quo by shaping decision criteria early.

Build champions and executive relationships, and navigate security, procurement, finance, and multi-stakeholder buying committees.

Orchestrate Solutions Engineering, product, executive, and partner resources through close and expansion.

Keep disciplined account plans, a current CRM, realistic close dates, and forecasts grounded in buyer evidence.

A sustained record of enterprise quota attainment and personally led new-logo wins, with 7+ years of direct enterprise quota-carrying experience preferred.

Experience closing multiple technical enterprise deals and carrying a $1.5M+ quota (or comparable responsibility).

Experience as one of the first one to three sellers building a region, segment, or new-market account focus at an early-stage or category-building company.

Technical credibility in storage, object storage/S3, data infrastructure, data lake/lakehouse, AI/ML, analytics, HPC, or adjacent platforms.

A repeatable, metrics-based approach to direct outreach, territory building, and pipeline creation including effective partner co-selling.

Skill in technical validation, value selling, competitive displacement, executive access, and complex negotiation.

Entrepreneurial ownership combined with disciplined forecasting, account planning, and collaboration.

Your Skills and Experience

Direct object-storage and S3 ecosystem experience.

AI/ML, lakehouse, analytics, or HPC workload experience.

Co-sell experience with cloud, channel, OEM, or alliance partners.

Experience displacing legacy storage or incumbent infrastructure vendors.

What We Offer:

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

401K with 3% Contribution

Pre-IPO Stock Options

At least 12 Public Holidays

Flexible Time Off

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Source: MinIO careers (Greenhouse)

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