Strategic Account Executive - Chicago

ClickHouse, Inc.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. in Chicago is expanding its GTM team and seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive net-new logo acquisition across Strategic accounts in Chicago.

You will identify opportunities, articulate the vision, and close cloud contracts while forecasting monthly at Salesforce. This role includes engaging with the developer community, promoting ClickHouse Cloud, and collaborating with virtual teams in a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• Manage resources with dedicated teams and executive staff to ensure successful outcomes.
• Align ClickHouse Cloud to customer needs and technical requirements.
• Experience with GenAI or AI Native companies.
• 5+ years with Open Source software business models; cloud/infrastructure knowledge.
• Build long-lasting customer relationships across a diverse team.
• Strong business acumen and excellent written/oral communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and nurture opportunities; build and forecast pipeline.
• Articulate and evangelize company and product vision.
• Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for customers.
• Promote ClickHouse and ClickHouse Cloud innovations.
• Track customer details and forecasting in Salesforce.
• Accurately forecast business on a monthly cadence.
• Engage in regional meetups and global company gatherings.

Skills

Cloud sales

Open Source

GenAI

Relationship building

Cross-functional

Negotiation

Pipeline management

Job description

We are expanding our GTM team and are looking for a Strategic Account Executive to drive net-new logo acquisition across Strategic accounts in Chicago. If you have a background selling technical infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you!

What you will be doing:

• Identify and nurture opportunities, build and foster pipeline, close short term Cloud monthly contracts as well as annual committed spend arrangements.

• Articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and products.

• Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for customers.

• Promote the innovation happening around ClickHouse that is powering ClickHouse Cloud.

• Track customer details including use cases details, decision criteria, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce.

• Accurately forecast business on a monthly cadence.

• Contribute to the user and developer community in the region by engaging in affinity meetups but also driving ClickHouse specific meetups in key metro cities.

• Working long (but rewarding) hours at a very high growth startup.

What you bring along:

• Proactively and efficiently manage resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes

• Align the ClickHouse’s Cloud solution to the customer’s business needs, challenges, and technical requirements.

• Recent experience working with GenAI or AI Native companies.

• 5+ years of experience at a minimum with Open Source software business models is preferred and proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software is a minimum requirement.

• Passion for building long lasting customer relationships and working cross-functionally within a diverse team to deliver outstanding results.

• Strong business acumen and technology focus with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills.

Bonus Points for:

• Sales experience with cloud SaaS, data analytics and/or observability solutions

• Entrepreneurial spirit with a track record for delivering results in fast-moving environments.

• Experience effectively working remotely in a global, distributed organization.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.

• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.

• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.

• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.

• A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.

• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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