Account Executive

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · Milan, Italy · Sales Growth EMEA

This is an Account Executive role focused on new business acquisition and revenue growth within an assigned territory. The role involves prospecting, building relationships with technical end-users and leaders, and partnering with internal teams and external partners to close deals. While the company mentions AI and its database platform is for the AI era, the core function of this role is sales, not AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Proactively, identify, qualify and close a sales pipeline
  2. Strategically prospect into CTOs, Engineering/IT Leaders, & technical end users
  3. Build strong and effective relationships, resulting in growth opportunities
  4. Partner with our Solution Architects and work closely with the Professional Services team to achieve customer satisfaction
  5. Work closely with the enterprise ecosystem partner sales and channel partner to maximize deal sizes

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years field experience of quota-carrying experience
  • Demonstrated ability to open new accounts and sell horizontally across the organization into different business units
  • Ability to articulate the business value of complex enterprise technology
  • Co-selling with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP and Azure) and large GSIs (Accenture, KPMG, etc)
  • Skilled in building business champions
  • Driven and competitive
  • Must live in territory and speak Italian

Nice to have

  • Previous Sales Methodology training (e.g. MEDDIC, SPIN, Challenger Sales)
  • Familiarity with databases, develops and cloud native infrastructure

What the JD emphasized

  • quota-carrying experience
  • closing net new logos
  • proven track record of overachievement
  • Must live in territory and speak Italian