Strategic Hunter Enterprise Account Executive

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Paris, France · Enterprise Sales

This role is for a Strategic Hunter Enterprise Account Executive at Databricks, focusing on driving sales and expanding the company's footprint in France. The role involves identifying and closing new logo opportunities, understanding customer needs in big data and AI, and leveraging internal teams to maximize impact. While the company operates in the AI space, the core function of this role is sales, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assess your list of assigned accounts and develop a strategy to execute against it
  2. Build a customer base, identifying and closing new logo opportunities
  3. Lead your customers and partners to identify impactful big data and AI use cases whilst proving out their value on the Databricks Lakehouse platform.
  4. Identify land opportunities and develop the expand / consumption use cases.
  5. Orchestrate and utilise internal teams to maximise the impact on your ecosystem.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience selling SaaS solutions to Enterprise Customers
  • Extensive experience and strong performance in new logo hunting
  • Experience working in Big Data, Cloud, or SaaS industries with some technical sales experience
  • Successful experience selling complex software deals and quota over-achievement
  • Knowledge of the Data & AI space with some technology sales experience
  • Fluent French and business English required

Nice to have

  • Understanding of consumption based land and expand sales models is advantageous
  • Experience of following robust sales methodologies and process, e.g. account planning, MEDDPICC, Value Selling and accurate forecasting
  • Experience of building effective champions, collaborative teams and partnerships to support execution of your territory plan.
  • Understanding of how to identify all key uses cases and buying centres in an opportunity to increase the impact of Databricks in an organisation