Strategic Account Executive - Banking
At a glance
Mid-level Account Executive role at Databricks. London.
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What you'll do
- Shape banking-sector use cases that set the platform apart, then show customers the value they can deliver
- Build a business plan with your team and partners to grow existing accounts, win new opportunities, and hit usage and booking targets
- Lead data and AI specialists, customers, and partners in selecting valuable use cases and proving their impact
- Support customer transformation through partnerships, professional services, training, and executive engagement
- Create value across engagements and guide negotiations toward closing
What you bring
- You have sold enterprise software platforms directly to large organizations, including complex, regulated clients
- You have built executive relationships, developed new business, and grown enterprise software and services accounts beyond quota
- You bring technology sales experience in data and AI, including adoption of usage-based SaaS and joint selling with cloud-provider teams
- You can build business cases and win C-suite backing, and have experience creating partner strategies and executing territory plans
Who this fits
This is a mid-level strategic enterprise sales role for someone focused on banking accounts and complex, regulated organizations. You’ll lead a team of specialists, customers, and partners while owning account growth and new-business outcomes. The role is based in London.
From the employer
SLSQ427R686
Want to help solve the world's toughest problems with big data and AI? This is what we do every day at Databricks.
As an Strategic Enterprise Account Executive, you will come with an informed and compelling point of view on the Big Data, Advanced Analytics, and AI space which will guide your successful strategy and together with both our teams and partners, allow you to provide exceptional value to our customers within the Banking sector.
The impact you will have:
- You will provide the industry insight and business creativity required to design and develop unique use cases and solutions that differentiate Databricks within the Banking segment.
- You will co-develop a business plan, with your team and ecosystem partners, that accelerates existing customer success, identifies and acquires new opportunity and enables you to exceed quarterly/annual usage and booking goals
- You will motivate a diverse team of big data and AI professionals to implement your business plan
- You will lead your team, customers, and partners to identify impactful big data and AI use cases whilst proving their value on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
- You will support the broader big data and AI transformation goals of your customers through a combination of strategic partnerships, well-scoped professional services, training, and targeted Executive engagement
- You will build exceptional value with all engagements to guide successful negotiations to close
What we look for:
- Experience in direct sales of enterprise software platforms to large enterprises
- Ownership of executive level relationships in your clients
- Proven track record of developing new business
- Extensive experience of working with large complex regulated organisations
- Knowledge of the Data & AI space with technology sales experience
- Longevity with previous employers
- Quota over-achievement and significant growth when selling complex software and services to Enterprise accounts
- Experience driving successful adoption of usage-based subscription services (SaaS) and co-selling with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud teams
- Methods for co-developing business cases and gaining support from C-level Executives
- Familiarity with sales methodologies and process (e.g Territory and Account planning, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sales and Command of the Message)
- Experience developing partnerships with "champions" and client teams to support execution of your territory plan
- Experience developing a clear partner strategy and implement it to achieve success
- Understanding of consumption-based, land and expand sales models advantageous
- Understanding of how to identify important uses cases and buying centres to increase the impact of Databricks for clients
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
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
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