Commercial Account Executive - Benelux / Nordics Region

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Netherlands · Go-To-Market

Account Executive for ClickHouse, a cloud analytics and data warehousing company, focusing on expanding customer base in Benelux/Nordics region. Role involves identifying opportunities, building pipeline, closing contracts, and evangelizing the company's vision and cloud product. Requires business acumen, technical depth, and experience in cloud solutions and open source software.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and nurture opportunities, build pipeline, and close short term Cloud monthly contracts, while simultaneously developing a strategic Enterprise business with complex sales cycles.
  2. Evangelize ClickHouse’s vision and solutions to secure strategic commercial commitments.
  3. Take a solution-based approach to selling, delivering clear business value for customers.
  4. Champion the innovation behind ClickHouse Cloud, driving awareness and adoption.
  5. Manage customer details, including use cases, timelines, and forecasting, within Salesforce.

Skills

Required

  • Proven ability to manage cross functional resources
  • Expertise aligning cloud solutions with customer business needs, challenges, and technical requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in open source software business models
  • Strong background in cloud and infrastructure software
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • Strong business and technical acumen
  • Professional fluency in Dutch (written and spoken)

Nice to have

  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Proven record of delivering results in fast moving environments
  • Experience working effectively in a remote-first, global organization
  • Prior success selling databases or deploying applications with major cloud providers

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic Enterprise business
  • strategic commercial commitments
  • solution-based approach
  • innovation behind ClickHouse Cloud
  • 5+ of experience
  • cloud and infrastructure software required
  • Professional fluency in Dutch (written and spoken) is required for this role.