Account Executive

    Databricks

    🇮🇳 Bengaluru, India; Mumbai, India
    SaaS
    Hybrid
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    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

    greenhouse

    About this role

    As an Account Executive your mission will be to help further build our India business, which is one of our fastest growing markets in APJ. The Databricks Sales Team is driving growth through strategic and innovative partnership with our customers, helping businesses thrive by solving the world's toughest problems with our solutions. You will be inspiring and guiding customers on their data journey, making organisations more collaborative and productive than ever before. You will play an important role in the business in India, with the opportunity to strategically build your territory in close partnership with the business leaders. Using your passion with technology and drive to build, you will help businesses all across India reach their full potential, through the power of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

    You know how to sell innovation and change and can guide deals forward to compress decision cycles. You love understanding a product in-depth and are passionate about communicating its value to customers and partners. Always prospecting for new opportunities, you will close new accounts while growing our business in existing accounts.

    The impact you will have:

    • Prospect for new customers
    • Assess your existing customers and develop a strategy to identify and engage all buying centres
    • Use a solution approach to selling and creating value for customers
    • Identify the most viable use cases in each account to maximise Databricks' impact
    • Orchestrate and work with teams to maximise the impact of the Databricks ecosystem on your territory
    • Build value with all engagements to promote successful negotiations and close
    • Promote the Databricks enterprise cloud data platform
    • Be customer-focused by delivering technical

    Selling Motion

    Sales Cycle

    Enterprise

    6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals

    Prospecting

    Channel / Partner

    Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances

    Buyer Persona

    C-Suite

    Selling to executive decision-makers

    Requirements at a Glance

    Prospecting·Required skill

    Typical Day — Account Executive

    Stakeholder meetings3–5/week
    Executive presentations2–3/week
    Business cases & RFPs1–2/week
    Forecast & pipeline2×/week
    Champion coachingDaily

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    Role Signals

    Green Flags

    ✓
    Existing Book

    Inherit existing accounts

    SaaS — Interview Intel

    Typical Sales Cycle

    30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)

    Common Buyer Objections

    • "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
    • "We built something in-house already"
    • "We don't have budget until next quarter"
    • "Our team won't adopt another tool"

    Key Industry Metrics

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    Hot Topics to Reference

    • • AI-native product disruption
    • • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
    • • Vertical SaaS consolidation
    • • Usage-based pricing models

    Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.

    Tags

    Enterprise Sales
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    Walk me through your discovery process.

    Template question
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    How do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?

    Template question
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    Tell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.

    Template question
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    How do you build business cases for stakeholders?

    Template question
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    Describe a deal you lost and what you learned.

    Template question
    Research Databricks's product, recent news, and key competitors
    Prepare metrics: quota attainment %, average deal size, win rate
    Practice a 2-minute product demo pitch for a mock discovery call
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

    This Account Executive position at Databricks involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.

    SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.

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