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About this role
Headquarters: Remote, USA
Join Collibra’s Sales team as a Senior Account Executive II, Enterprise - East Coast
Make an impact at Collibra by fueling Collibra’s growth in your assigned East Coast territory and be the guiding force behind bringing Collibra’s value and vision to customers and prospects. As part of our Enterprise Sales team, you will be a relentless hunter — opening new doors, building pipelines from scratch, and driving net new revenue across some of the most exciting enterprise accounts on the East Coast. This is a role for someone who thrives in a greenfield environment and is energized by the challenge of finding and closing new business.
Senior Account Executives at Collibra are responsible for
- Aggressively prospecting and hunting for net new accounts, building pipeline from the ground up through disciplined outbound activity, executive outreach, and creative prospecting strategies
- Managing and creating demand for expansion on existing customers to widen the footprint of Collibra within accounts
- Owning complex deal cycles end to end — from lead origination and stakeholder mapping through negotiation, close, and expansion
- Successfully collaborating with customers, partners, and peers in a consultative sales process where you will identify value and ROI to support customer needs
- Maintaining reliable, accurate forecasting with Salesforce updates reflective of real-time activity
You have
- A proven hunter mentality — you have built pipeline from zero, opened cold accounts, and closed net new logos consistently throughout your career
- Consistently achieved or overachieved
Tools & Tech Stack
Commission Structure
Base Salary
Not disclosed — ask in interview
Commission
Structure not specified
OTE
$,
Ramp Period
Not mentioned — clarify timeline
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.
Role Signals
Green Flags
Location flexibility
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 questionThis Account Executive position at Collibra involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.
Remote positions in sales offer flexibility but require strong self-discipline and proactive communication with distributed teams.
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