Named Enterprise Account Executive, South Africa

Want to join a fast growth pre-IPO organisation that could define the next stage of your career?
Databricks operates at the leading edge of the Unified Data Analytics and AI space. Our customers turn to us to lead the accelerated innovation that their businesses need to gain first mover advantage in today's ultra competitive landscape.
We are looking for a creative, delivery-oriented Named Enterprise Account Executive to join our Sales team in London to maximise the phenomenal market opportunity that exists for Databricks in South Africa. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Sales IMEA, as an Enterprise Account Executive at Databricks you'll focus on acquiring new enterprise-class customers and share an informed point of view on the Big Data and Advanced Analytics space.
You will operate in a fly-in/fly-out model.
The impact you will have:

Assess your territory, develop account strategies and implement them!
Identify new business opportunities, win new clients and increase usage of the Data Intelligence platform by aligning its benefits to the strategic objectives of your clients
Orchestrate and utilise our field engineering teams to ensure valuable outcomes for clients
Build and demonstrate value with all engagements to guide successful negotiations to close point

Experience in a technical or software direct sales role, or Databricks knowledge
General understanding of data platform, open source and cloud ecosystems
Experience at high growth and successful companies/organisations
Longevity with previous employers
Quota over-achievement when selling complex software and services to Enterprise accounts
Experience driving successful adoption of usage-based subscription services (SaaS) and co-selling with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud teams
Methods for co-developing business cases and gaining support from C-level Executives
Familiarity with sales methodologies and process, e.g Territory and Account planning, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sales and Command of the Message
Experience in building effective champions, collaborative teams, and partnerships to support the execution of your territory plan
Understanding of consumption-based, land and expand sales models advantageous
Understanding of how to identify important uses cases and buying centres to increase the impact of Databricks for clients
English is required

About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide including Comcast, Cond Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
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