Strategic Account Executive - Germany

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

Strategic Account Executive for ClickHouse in Germany, focusing on expanding customer base and driving adoption of their cloud product, which supports AI workloads. Requires strong business acumen, technical depth in cloud solutions, and experience in open source software and infrastructure software sales.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and nurture opportunities, build pipeline, and close short term Cloud monthly contracts, while simultaneously developing a strategic 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
  • 7+ years of experience in open source software business models preferred; strong background in cloud and infrastructure software required
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • Strong business and technical acumen

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 business
  • strategic commercial commitments
  • solution-based approach
  • innovation behind ClickHouse Cloud
  • cloud solutions
  • 7+ of experience
  • cloud and infrastructure software
  • communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • databases
  • remote-first, global organization