Account Executive - Key Accounts (Middle East)

UptimeAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

UptimeAI is seeking an Account Executive for Key Accounts in the Middle East to own and grow strategic enterprise relationships. You will turn initial deployments into multi-plant, multi-year partnerships across Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Power, Cement and Metals sectors.

You will lead expansions, renewals and executive negotiations, building plans and chasing measurable value through adoption and successful cross-sell across modules, assets and new units.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of enterprise B2B sales in industrial software, automation or enterprise SaaS.
• 4+ years in key or strategic account management.
• Technical foundation: engineering degree or sales/pre-sales technical background.
• Proven expansion and renewal results across named enterprise accounts.
• Experience selling into Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Power, Cement or Metals in India or GCC.
• Senior relationships with plant and executive stakeholders.
• Disciplined CRM pipeline and forecast management.
• Strong negotiation and ROI-based selling skills.

Responsibilities

• Grow revenue across key enterprise accounts through expansion to new plants, assets and modules and secure multi-year renewals.
• Build and maintain account plans for every key account with org maps and expansion paths.
• Build trusted relationships with CXOs, Plant Heads and Operations leaders.
• Partner with Customer Success and Delivery to drive adoption and quantify value delivered.
• Open new business units and sister companies within the same industrial groups.
• Lead commercial negotiations, pricing and contracting for expansions and renewals.
• Run executive business reviews and secure customer references and case studies.
• Keep a precise pipeline and forecast in CRM; report weekly to the hiring manager.
• Feed customer and market insight back to Product and Marketing.

Skills

Negotiation

Consultative selling

ROI-based selling

CRM pipeline management

Forecast management

Executive stakeholder engagement

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Account Executive – Key Accounts ( Middle East)

About UptimeAI

UptimeAI is transforming industrial operations through its AI-driven platform that maximizes uptime, optimizes asset performance and enhances reliability across heavy industries. Our AI Reasoning Engine and AI Expert platform combine advanced data science, deep learning and decades of domain expertise to help plants predict, diagnose and resolve issues in real time. Backed by $14 million in Series A funding, UptimeAI is expanding across North America, the Middle East and Asia, with recognition and partnerships from Shell, Mitsubishi, ABB Motion and Frost & Sullivan.

Location: Middle East (UAE /Oman/Saudi)

Reports to: VP-Sales

Department: Sales

Experience: 10–15 years in enterprise B2B sales

The opportunity

Own and grow UptimeAI's key enterprise customers in the Middle East or India. You will turn initial deployments at leading Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Power, Cement and Metals companies into multi-plant, multi-year partnerships, working hand in hand with Customer Success, Delivery and Product.

Key responsibilities

• Grow revenue across UptimeAI's key enterprise accounts through expansion to new plants, assets and modules, and secure on-time, multi-year renewals.

• Build and maintain account plans for every key account: org and relationship maps, whitespace, risks and a 12-month expansion path.

• Build trusted relationships with CXOs, Plant Heads, and Reliability, Maintenance and Operations leaders.

• Partner with Customer Success and Delivery to drive adoption and quantify value delivered (downtime avoided, maintenance cost, energy savings), then use it to justify expansion.

• Open new business units and sister companies within the same industrial groups.

• Lead commercial negotiations, pricing and contracting for expansions and renewals.

• Run executive business reviews and secure customer references and case studies.

• Keep an accurate pipeline and forecast in CRM; report weekly to the hiring manager.

• Feed customer and market insight back to Product and Marketing.

Must have

• 10–15 years of enterprise B2B sales in industrial software, automation or enterprise SaaS, including 4+ years in key or strategic account management.

• A technical foundation: an engineering degree, or early experience as a sales, application or pre-sales engineer.

• Proven expansion and renewal results across named enterprise accounts.

• Track record selling into Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Power, Cement or Metals in India or the GCC.

• Senior relationships with plant, operations and executive stakeholders.

• Strong negotiation, consultative and ROI-based selling skills.

• Disciplined CRM pipeline and forecast management.

Preferred

• Top-performer recognition such as President's Club.

• Experience with APM, predictive maintenance, IIoT or industrial AI solutions.

• Relationships at national energy companies in the GCC, or at large private conglomerates and PSUs in India; experience with tender-based procurement.

• Experience in a Series A/B or high-growth company.

Success in the first 12 months

• Account plans in place and reviewed for every key account within 60 days.

• All key renewals secured on time.

• Expansion into new plants or modules at a majority of key accounts.

• At least one new business unit or sister company opened within an existing group.

• Two referenceable customers in the region and one published case study.

Key success metrics

Expansion ARR · Net revenue retention · Gross renewal rate · New business units opened · Pipeline coverage · Forecast accuracy · Executive sponsor engagement · Customer references

Why join UptimeAI

Own some of UptimeAI's most strategic relationships in the Middle East or India, with direct access to Sales leadership and a product that delivers measurable results for the region's largest industrial companies.