On-site
SaaS
greenhouse
🇸🇪 Swedish
About this role
SLSQ128R101
Want to join a fast-growth pre-IPO organisation that could define the next stage of your career?
Reporting to the Manager for Startups as an Account Executive at Databricks, you come with relevant experience selling to Start-up and Mid-Market accounts. 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. Always prospecting for new use cases and opportunities within existing accounts. You will have significant career progression opportunities as part of an innovative business unit supporting fast-growing customers at Databricks.
The impact you will have:
- Assess your territory and develop a successful execution strategy within the first 30 days
- 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
- Work closely with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver the most value back to your customers, aligned with the adoption of our platform
- Working with system integrators, ISVs and cloud partners to help customers build a world-class data and AI strategy
- Drive business and technical consultancy for businesses to scale their data & company strategies effec
Tools & Tech Stack
Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Mid-Market
1–6 month cycles, moderate deal complexity
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.
SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.
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