About this role
We are expanding our GTM team and are looking for a Strategic Account Executive to drive net-new logo acquisition across enterprise accounts with a focus on large media customers in the Southern California area. If you have a background selling technical infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you!
What you will be doing:
- Identify and nurture opportunities, build and foster pipeline, close short term Cloud monthly contracts as well as annual committed spend arrangements.
- Articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and products.
- Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for customers.
- Promote the innovation happening around ClickHouse that is powering ClickHouse Cloud.
- Track customer details including use cases details, decision criteria, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce.
- Accurately forecast business on a monthly cadence.
- Contribute to the user and developer community in the region by engaging in affinity meetups but also driving ClickHouse specific meetups in key metro cities.
- Working long (but rewarding) hours at a very high growth startup.
What you bring along:
- Success selling to the large digital media companies in Southern California
- Proactively and efficiently manage resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes
- Align the ClickHouse’s Cloud solution to the customer’s business needs, challenges, and technical requirements.
- Recent experience working with GenAI or AI Native companies.
- 5+ years of experience at a minimum with Open Source software business models is preferred and proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software is a minimum requirement.
- Passion for building long lasting customer relationships and working cross-functionally within a diverse team to deliver outstanding results.
- Strong business acumen and technology focus with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills.
Bonus Points for:
- Sales experience with cloud SaaS, data analytics and/or observability solutions
- Entrepreneurial spirit with a track record for delivering results in fast-moving environments.
- Experience effectively working remotely in a global, distributed organization.
PERKS
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
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