On-site
SaaS
greenhouse
🇫🇷 French
About this role
SLSQ427R1101
As an Emerging Enterprise Hunter Account Executive, you are a sales professional experienced in selling to Emerging Enterprise accounts in France (annual turnover $250mil to $1B). You know how to sell innovation and change through customer vision expansion 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 looking for new opportunities, you will secure net new logos with new accounts and expand them. Along with the chance to close exciting deals and solve meaningful problems, we also offer accelerators above 100% quota attainment.
You will report to the Senior Director, Emerging Enterprise, South Europe.
The impact you will have:
- Assess your territory and develop a successful execution strategy
- Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for new logo accounts
- Identify and close quick, small wins while managing longer, complex sales cycles
- Track all customer details including use case, purchase time frames, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce
- Exceed activity and quarterly revenue targets
- Promote the value of the Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform
- Ensure 100% satisfaction among all customers
What we look for:
- Understanding of the data platform and cloud ecosystems
- Some exposure to the software industry and some basic concepts of selling SaaS, Data and Business Value
- Basic understanding on how to research company information and identifying key stakeholders&
Tools & Tech Stack
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
Territory
Greenfield
Build territory from scratch — net-new logos
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 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.
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