Strategic Account Executive

Glean; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Glean, a leading Work AI platform, is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive new business and grow within large enterprise prospects in India. You will craft tailored strategies to penetrate and expand major accounts, requiring executive-level messaging, deep account research, and champion-building in a fast-growing environment.

You will build a territory in the India region, navigating complex organizations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver on customer pain

Qualifications

• 10+ years of sales closing experience in enterprise software or SaaS.
• Proven ability to sell to C-level executives in large organizations.
• Strong knowledge of modern SaaS and cloud-based solutions and APIs.
• Experience with MEDDIC or Challenger methodologies is a plus.
• Ability to develop territory plans and build executive relationships across complex orgs.

Responsibilities

• Source and close net-new logos within a designated territory.
• Navigate complex org structures to identify executive sponsors and champions.
• Research client objectives and drive value-based sales cycles.
• Collaborate with internal teams to advance deals and ensure customer success.
• Meet ARR targets through repeatable, predictable bookings.
• Develop and execute sales strategies to generate pipeline and opportunities.
• Provide input to other functions based on market feedback.
• Run POCs based on business success criteria.

Skills

Closing deals

C-level selling

SaaS sales

Cross-functional collaboration

Account planning

MEDDIC

Tools

CRM (Salesforce)

MS Office

Job description

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About the Role:

As a Strategic Account Executive at Glean, you will drive new business and growth within our largest enterprise prospects by developing tailored strategies to break into and expand major accounts. This role demands sophisticated account research, executive-level messaging, and champion-building to deliver on customer pain points and priority business outcomes. You will have the opportunity to build a territory in the India region and play a key role in shaping Glean’s presence among industry-leading organizations and advancing our mission to transform work with AI.

You will:

• Source and close net new logos within a given territory
• Have the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and identify executive sponsors and champions
• Research and understand the business objectives of your customers and have the ability to perform a value drive sales cycle
• Collaborate with internal partners to move deals forward and ensure customer success
• You will consistently deliver ARR revenue targets and drive success through a metric based approach
• Develop and execute sales strategies and tactics to generate pipeline, drive sales opportunities and deliver repeatable and predictable bookings
• Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions
• Create ROI and business justification reports based off of a data driven approach
• Run tight POCs based off of business success criteria.

About you:

• 10+ years of closing experience in Sales with a track record of being a top performer
• Ability to learn, pitch and demonstrate a highly technical product and have the ability to adapt in a fast growing and changing environment
• Have clear examples of closing complex deals and selling into complex organizations
• Effectively use a repeatable method for uncovering greenfield opportunities and building out a new territory
• Previous experience building relationships and selling face to face to C level executives
• Knowledge of best of breed softwares and a technical understanding of integrations, APIs, infrastructure management, security and analytics
• Experience selling technical SaaS and cloud based software solutions
• Basic understanding of search infrastructure is a plus
• You have previous experience working with multiple teammates including SEs, BDRs, PMs, Executives & Engineers
• Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and using MEDDIC and Challenger (or similar) methodologies is a plus.

Location:

• This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office)

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.