Account Executive

The Account Executive will play a key role in driving Confluent’s sales activities to grow our customer acquisitions in the region . This role includes activities developing and executing on the go-to-market strategy for your territory.

The ideal candidate needs to have experience selling complex Database, Messaging, Big Data, Open Source and/or SaaS into large corporate and multinational companies.

What You Will Do:

● Build awareness for Kafka and Confluent

● Aggressively prospect, identify, qualify and develop sales pipeline in the Banking and Financial Services Institutions space, contributing to our Enterprise revenue generating effort

● Close business to exceed monthly, quarterly and annual bookings objectives

● Build strong and effective relationships within the Banking and Financial Services Institutions space, resulting in growth opportunities

● Build and maintain relationships with new and existing Confluent partners

● Create and execute go to market plans that are based on viral methods and organic growth

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

● At least 12 years of Enterprise sales experience

● Deep experience selling within the Database, Open Source, Messaging or Big Data space into the public sector / financial services

● An ability to articulate and sell the business value of big data and the big impact on businesses of all sizes

● Experience selling to developers and C levels

● Significant experience in a Sales and/or Business Development role within a similar start up and high growth organization