On-site
SaaS
greenhouse
🇪🇸 Spanish
About this role
SLSQ128R100
As an Account Executive at Databricks, you come with relevant experience selling to Emerging Enterprise (defined as companies annual turnover $250M to $1B) and Digital Native accounts across Iberia (Spain and Portugal). You are a hunter with superb prospecting skills and passion for acquiring new logos. Your informed point of view on Big Data and Advanced Analytics will guide your successful sales strategy together with our teams and partners, allowing you to provide value to our biggest and most valued customers. Along with the chance to close exciting deals, we also offer accelerators above 100% quota accomplishment.
The impact you will have:
- Assess your territory and develop a successful execution strategy
- Exceed activity and quarterly revenue targets
- Identify new use case opportunities and showcase value to existing customers
- Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for customers
- Promote Databricks' enterprise cloud data platform powered by Apache Spark
- Ensure 100% satisfaction among all customers
- Prioritize opportunities and applying appropriate resources
- Build a plan for success internally at Databricks and externally with your accounts.
What we look for:
- Proven track record selling cloud, data or AI solutions to mid-Enterprise customers across Spain and Portugal (experience selling to Digital Natives is highly desirable)
- Solution and business-outcomes focused sales approach (Command of the Message, MEDDPIC, Challenger Sale)
- Experience with consumption-based selling preferred
Commission Structure
Base Salary
Not disclosed — ask in interview
Commission
Structure not specified
Ramp Period
Not mentioned — clarify timeline
Accelerators
Yes
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.
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.
Tags
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 questionAccount Executives are the revenue engine of any sales organization — this role will require strong pipeline management and closing skills.
Top SaaS reps often earn significant upside through accelerators once quota is exceeded.
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