Strategic Account Executive - France

ClickHouse ClickHouse · Data AI · Go-To-Market

This role is for a Strategic Account Executive in France for ClickHouse, a company specializing in open-source OLAP databases. The role focuses on expanding the customer base for their cloud product, requiring a blend of business acumen and technical depth to guide customers. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, building pipeline, closing contracts, evangelizing the company's vision, taking a solution-based approach, managing customer details in Salesforce, and delivering business forecasts. The ideal candidate has experience in cloud solutions, open-source software, and cloud/infrastructure software, with strong communication and presentation skills. Fluency in French is required.

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

  • Fluency in French
  • 7+ of experience in open source software business models preferred; strong background in cloud and infrastructure software required.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, with strong business and technical acumen.

Nice to have

  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a 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
  • cloud solutions
  • cloud and infrastructure software