On-site
SaaS
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
Typical Day — Account Executive
Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.
Role Signals
Green Flags
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
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.
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Walk me through your discovery process.
Template questionHow do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?
Template questionTell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.
Template questionHow do you build business cases for stakeholders?
Template questionDescribe a deal you lost and what you learned.
Template questionThis Account Executive position at Databricks involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
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