Strategic Account Executive

1 week ago

Chicago, IL, United States SingleStore-Career Full time
Position Overview

SingleStore is seeking an accomplished sales professional to join our Strategic Sales Team. In this role you will be responsible for closing new business and expanding existing business with large strategic customers. You will build and nurture C-Suite relationships, consistently close multi-million dollar deals, and use a value-selling approach that ties technology to measurable business outcomes. This is an incredible opportunity to join an established, fast-growing software company where you can over-achieve, earning competitive compensation with uncapped commissions and accelerators. Priority will be given to pursuing and expanding opportunities that align with our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) to maximize win rates, accelerate time-to-value, and increase lifetime customer value.

Role and Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute strategic territory and account plans to consistently achieve revenue targets within a defined portfolio.
  • Lead multiple, concurrent customer sales cycles end to end, with a strong focus on new logo acquisition while managing longer, more complex deal timelines.
  • Own and grow large, strategic customer accounts, navigating multi-stakeholder environments and managing complexity across decision-makers.
  • Partner closely with Sales Engineering, Sales Development, and Field Marketing to drive deal strategy, pipeline generation, and execution.
  • Build and maintain relationships with Channel partners, supporting pipeline development and co-selling efforts.
  • Quickly develop a deep understanding of the company's software products and clearly articulate the business value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Develop strong relationships with key decision-makers, influencers, and partners within your territory.
  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers, influencers, and partners across assigned accounts and territory.
  • Travel within the assigned territory as required to support customer engagement and sales activities.
Required Skills and Experience
  • 5-10 yrs of proven track record of successfully selling enterprise software solutions and increasing revenue through new customer acquisition
  • Solution selling of a disruptive technology in the data infrastructure space
  • Firm understanding of the modern data infrastructure such as the open source community and the various enterprise software (business intelligence, analytics, ETL, cloud infrastructure, etc.) products
  • Demonstrated ability to sell to CXO or line of business, successfully emphasizing business value versus product
  • Strong ability to connect with customers to understand their individual business needs
  • B.S, B.A. degree or equivalent in a related field

SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world's data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we're proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses.

SingleStore's base salary range for this role, if based in Boston, Chicago, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Washington, or Dallas is: $150,000 - $175,000 USD per year

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