Commercial Account Executive - UK

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · United Kingdom · Go-To-Market

This is a commercial account executive role focused on selling ClickHouse's cloud product, which is used for real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. The role involves identifying and nurturing opportunities, building pipeline, and closing contracts, while also developing strategic commercial business. The ideal candidate has business acumen and technical depth to guide customers in achieving their objectives with ClickHouse. Experience in cloud and infrastructure software is required, with a preference for open source software business models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and nurture opportunities, build pipeline, and close short term Cloud monthly contracts, while simultaneously developing a strategic commercial 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, technical requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure software
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • strong business and technical acumen

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of experience in open source software business models
  • 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

  • cloud infrastructure software required