Enterprise Account Executive - Consumer and Distribution

Databricks Inc.; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Career development

Job summary

Databricks is expanding its Enterprise Accounts team in the UK & Ireland, targeting consumer and distribution clients. You will lead strategic engagements, articulate data and AI value, and drive cross-functional collaboration to grow existing enterprise accounts.

You will navigate technical and business buyers, advance opportunities through complex sales cycles, and partner with cloud co-sell teams to accelerate adoption of the Databricks platform.

Qualifications

• Strong closing experience and evidence of exceeding sales quotas.
• Cloud data and AI software sales experience.
• Experience driving adoption of usage-based SaaS with cloud co-sell.
• Familiarity with MEDDPICC, value selling and sales playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Build Databricks solutions for customers in consumer and distribution sectors.
• Identify buying centers and develop account strategies across defined territory.
• Use a solution-based approach to create business value and growth.
• Maintain accurate Salesforce records and forecast sales activities.

Skills

Closing deals

Pipeline management

Stakeholder navigation

Executive engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Salesforce

CRM software

Job description

Do you want to help solve the world's toughest problems with data and AI? This is what we do every day at Databricks.

This role presents a unique opportunity to expand Databricks’ presence within a set list of customers across top consumer and distribution companies in the UK and Ireland.

Reporting to the Enterprise Sales Leader, the Enterprise Account Executive is an experienced sales professional focused on driving adoption of Databricks to unlock new value streams and expand Enterprise accounts. Passionate about solving business challenges, you excel at initiating and advancing conversations to value delivery using a defined methodology and playbook.

Skilled at selling innovation, you guide deals to accelerate decision‑making, articulate product value to customers and partners, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to grow existing accounts across a diverse territory.

The impact you will have:

• The opportunity to work with cross‑functional teams to build out Databricks solutions for customers within consumer and distribution industry verticals
• Assess your accounts and develop a strategy to identify and engage all buying centers
• Use a solution‑based approach to selling and creating value for enterprise growth accounts
• Be comfortable switching between technical stakeholder and business buyer personas, in order to connect the customers challenges to business value through the entire sales cycle
• Identify and secure tech wins to grow consumption while managing longer, complex sales cycles
• Track all customer details including projects, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce and supporting softwares
• Map the whitespace opportunity across your defined territory, and use methodology to identify the most viable use cases in each account to maximise Databricks’ impact
• Orchestrate and work with internal and external partner teams to maximise the impact on your ecosystem
• Build value with all engagements to promote successful negotiations to close point
• Be customer-focused by delivering technical and business results using the Databricks Intelligence Platform

What we look for:

• Strong closing experience and evidence of exceeding sales quotas
• Sales experience within cloud data and AI software, ideally linked to open source technology
• Track record of driving consistent high activity to generate, develop & accelerate pipeline
• Familiarity with sales methodologies and playbooks (e.g. ICP, territory and account tiering, MEDDPICC, Powerbase and value selling)
• Ability to navigate and be successful in a fast‑growing organisation
• Experience driving successful adoption of usage‑based consumption 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
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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