Strategic Account Executive - FSI

This role consists of engaging prospects and customers about their related initiatives to help them develop a more efficient approach, leveraging our platform DSS.

The Strategic Account Executive is responsible for the entire sales cycle, while being able to leverage various company resources, to reach a successful collaboration with the prospect. The Account Executive is likely to work cross functionally with Marketing, Product Management and Engineering.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Educating customers on the value of Dataiku in a thoughtful way
• Driving revenue through proactive outreach to existing customers
• Providing recommendations based on a customer’s business needs and usage patterns
• Managing multiple customers simultaneously at various stages of the Dataiku buying cycle
• Strong ability to develop a C-Level vision match with prospects and customers, to develop alignment across different groups and cultivate champions
• Background in selling innovation and new concepts to large Enterprises
• Handling inbound customer communication and organizing/escalating issues appropriately, including: billing, legal, security, and technical inquiries
• Serving as the voice of the customer and collecting feedback to drive continuous improvement across all areas including product
• Other duties as assigned from time to time

Success Profile:

• 5-7 years’ experience in software field sales, or other relevant sales experience
• Background in selling innovation and new concepts to large enterprises - particularly within the Financial Services & Insurance industries. 
• Strong ability to develop a vision match with prospects and customers, to develop alignment across different groups and cultivate champions
• Good articulation of competitive positioning
• Domain expertise in big data, analytics, data science, BI/DW, data integration preferred
• Possesses advanced interpersonal communication skills
• Is adaptable with a growth mindset