On-site
SaaS
greenhouse
🇩🇪 German
About this role
SLSQ427R945
As an Emerging Enterprise and Digital Natives Account Executive at Databricks, you come with relevant experience selling to Emerging Enterprise ($250 - $1B revenue) and Digital Native accounts across the DACH region. As a successful candidate you are a self-starter who understands the consumption sales process. You know how to sell innovation and value to existing customers, identify new use cases and grow consumption 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. You will be offered huge potential for career progression with the pace of the team's growth.
The impact you will have:
- Assess your territory and develop a successful execution strategy
- Drive quarter-on-quarter consumption growth in existing accounts
- Exceed activity and quarterly revenue targets
- Track all customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
- Identify new use case opportunities and showcase value to existing customers
- Promote the value of the Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform
- Ensure 100% satisfaction among all customers
- Connect to your accounts ecosystem (stakeholders, influencers, partners, VC, PE, cloud providers etc)
- Drive both technical and business discussions, adapting the narrative to the audience (C level, middle management, practitioner…) and persona (IT, Data & AI, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Sales…)
What we look for:
- Strong closing experien
Tools & Tech Stack
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 questionAs an Account Executive with Databricks, you'll own the entire revenue pipeline and be measured on quota attainment.
Expect to work with recurring revenue models where customer retention is as important as acquisition.
The German market values structured sales processes and typically offers strong base salaries alongside performance incentives.
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