Strategic Enterprise Account Executive - Financial Services
Databricks
London, United KingdomSales & GTMMid-levelFull-time
Role at a glance
Mid-level sales role focused on selling Databricks' data and AI platform to major financial services firms in London.
- →- Provide industry insight to design use cases differentiating Databricks in fin
- →- Co-develop business plans to exceed quarterly and annual booking goals
- →- Lead teams and partners to identify and prove big data and AI use cases
- →- Support customer transformation via partnerships, services, training and execu
- →- Drive successful negotiations to close using exceptional value
Who should apply
Candidates with direct enterprise software sales experience to large financial institutions and a proven record of quota overachievement. They should demonstrate executive-level relationship building, knowledge of the data and AI space, and familiarity with usage-based subscriptions plus co-selling alongside major cloud providers. Ideal applicants also show longevity in prior roles and comfort working with complex regulated organizations.
Skills & technologies
enterprise software salesfinancial servicesdata and aiquota overachievementawsazuregoogle cloudmeddpicc
Full job description
As published by Databricks on their official careers page.
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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 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 Financial services sector. Reporting to the Sales Director, you will be focused on the growth of one major
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 Financial services 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 financial service 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 selling complex software and services to large enterprise accounts
- Experience driving successful adoption of usage-based subscription services 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)
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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