Enterprise Account Executive, Local Government & Education

SLSQ425R71

 

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

Reporting to the Public Sector Sales Leader, as a new business Account Executive, you are a sales professional experienced in selling into and opening new logo accounts within the Local Government and Education sector.  You will come with an informed and compelling point of view on the Big Data and Advanced Analytics 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 Local Government and Education sectors.  Always looking for new opportunities, you will close new logos while growing some existing accounts. 

 

The impact you will have:

• Assess your accounts and develop a strategy to identify and engage all buying centres, guiding deals forward to compress decision cycles
• Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for new logo accounts 
• Identify and close quick, small wins while managing longer, complex sales cycles
• 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
• Build exceptional value with all engagements to guide successful negotiations to close
• Orchestrate and work with teams to maximize the impact on your ecosystem
• Own the consumption story with your customers, using demand plans to identify the most viable use cases in each account to maximize Databricks impact.
• Be Customer focused by delivering technical and business results using the Databricks Intelligence Platform

 

What we look for:

• Strong background in new business development, closing experience and quota over-achievement when selling to public sector accounts
• Experience of Public Sector procurement frameworks and mechanisms is beneficial
• Sales experience within Cloud software, open source technology, or Data and AI space
• Experience driving successful adoption of usage-based subscription services (SaaS) and co-selling with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud teams 
• Understanding of how to identify all key uses cases and buying centres in an opportunity to increase the impact and business value of Databricks in an organisation
• Methods for co-developing business cases and gaining support from C-level Executives
• Experience of building effective champions, collaborative teams and partnerships to support execution of your territory plan.
• Understanding of consumption based land and expand sales models
• Experience of following robust sales methodologies and process, e.g. account planning, MEDDPICC, Value Selling and accurate forecasting
• Longevity with previous employers
• Eligibility for SC clearance

 

Benefits:

• Private medical, dental and cash refunds for health expenses
• Life, disability and critical illness coverage
• Group personal pension with company contribution
• Equity awards
• Paid parental leave
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Business travel accident insurance

 

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Last updated on Aug 19, 2024