Lead complex enterprise software sales from prospecting through close, winning new six- and seven-figure accounts while building executive relationships and delivering accurate forecasts.
Enterprise Account Executive
📜 Description
- Prospect within existing accounts to identify new business use cases and data workloads.
- Build relationships with senior technical and business decision-makers, including C-suite stakeholders.
- Generate and manage enterprise pipeline, forecasts, and deal tracking using Salesforce and Clari.
- Lead end-to-end sales opportunities, from discovery and value modeling through negotiation and close.
- Develop data-driven territory and account plans to grow market share and exceed revenue targets.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and ecosystem partners to accelerate deals and support customer adoption.
🛠️ Requirements
- Approximately 5 to 9 years of enterprise software sales experience.
- BA or equivalent experience.
- Experience with MEDDIC or MEDDPICC sales methodology.
- Strong prospecting and pipeline-generation skills.
- Ability to sell use cases across multiple business units.
- Data analytics and AI experience.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
✨ Benefits
- Generous PTO and Unplugged Days.
- Flexible WFH policy.
- Mental and physical wellness programs.
- Phone and internet reimbursement.
- Continued career development.
- Comprehensive benefits and competitive packages.
- Paid volunteer time and Employee Resource Groups.
Full job description
Business Area:
SalesSeniority Level:
Mid-Senior levelJob Description:
At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
Key for this role will be the ability to manage a wider patch and define the right strategy to generate pipeline and customer opportunities efficiently. You will play a pivotal role in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities within an existing customer base, cultivating relationships with key stakeholders, and ensuring the successful adoption of our solutions.
As an Account Executive you will:
- Capture Net-New Workloads: Drive expansion revenue within installed accounts by outbound-prospecting to discover and land new business use cases and data workloads.
- Engage Technical Leadership: Penetrate target accounts by initiating outreach to senior technical and business decision-makers up to C suite.
- Pipeline Generation & Forecasting Discipline: Build and manage a healthy enterprise pipeline using multi-touch approach and outbound tools. Maintain and drive rigorous forecasting accuracy and deal tracking in Salesforce and Clari.
- Orchestrate End-to-End Deals: Manage the complete sales lifecycle across the entire platform portfolio, leading opportunities from initial discovery through value modeling, negotiation, and close.
- Execute Strategic Territory Planning: Build and execute a data-driven account plan designed to maximize market share and consistently overachieve annual revenue targets.
- Mobilize Ecosystem Partners: Partner closely with cross-functional teams and external ecosystem channels to amplify reach and accelerate deal velocity.
- Quotas: Meet and exceed all quarterly and annual sales quotas and ensure customer satisfaction
We’re excited about you if you have:
- Approximately 5 to 9 years of enterprise software sales
- BA or equivalent experience
- Strong Sales Methodology: MEDDIC or MEDDPICC
- Excellent PP, PG skills to drive new business and expand existing accounts.
- Demonstrated ability to sell use cases horizontally across the organization into different business units
- Data analytics and AI experience
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
- This role is not eligible for sponsorship
The anticipated annual OTE range for this position is:
California: $320 - $340k
Individual compensation within the published range is determined by the candidate's skills, experience, qualifications, and primary work location. In addition to base pay, sales roles are eligible for Cloudera's commission plan, while non-sales roles are eligible for the corporate incentive plan. All employees receive a comprehensive benefits package.
What you can expect from us:
Generous PTO Policy
Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
Flexible WFH Policy
Mental & Physical Wellness programs
Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
Access to Continued Career Development
Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
Employee Resource Groups
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