Enterprise Account Executive
United kingdom · London · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- United kingdom · London
About the role
- SingleStore is looking for an accomplished sales professional to join the Sales Team as an Enterprise Account Executive.
- This role offers an opportunity to break into AI and do meaningful enterprise selling as AI moves from experimentation into production.
Responsibilities
- Build and execute a territory strategy for net-new customer acquisition.
- Prospect fearlessly across a broad account universe using proactive, persistent outbound, account-based, partner, and market-education motions.
- Form account hypotheses, map the buying center, and earn first meetings with relevant points of view tailored to the customer.
- Engage executive, business, technical, security, and procurement stakeholders.
- Lead great business-first discovery, connect AI and data challenges to fundable goals, and build quantified ROI, TCO, or operational-impact cases.
- Build and develop champions, multi-thread the buying group, earn executive and economic-buyer access, and maintain stakeholder alignment.
- Lead complex sales cycles through technical validation, security, legal, procurement, negotiation, and close.
- Partner with Solutions and Forward Deployment Engineers and cross-functional teams to validate technical fit and establish the first production workload.
- Navigate competitive displacement and maintain disciplined activity management, CRM hygiene, reporting, qualification, forecasting, and opportunity management.
- Be AI fluent: use AI and research tools productively and responsibly while applying judgment, validating outputs, and separating facts from hypotheses.
Requirements
- 5+ years of quota-carrying B2B enterprise software sales experience, ideally selling to large or technically sophisticated organizations.
- Repeated, quantified quota success with clear ownership of new-logo wins and self-sourced pipeline.
- Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals involving executives, technical evaluators, security, legal, finance, procurement, and partners.
- Ability to sell measurable business outcomes and build ROI, TCO, or operational-impact cases.
- Technical fluency in an adjacent domain such as databases, data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML, cloud, Kubernetes, developer tools, cybersecurity, observability, or open-source software.
- Strong qualification, account planning, forecasting, CRM, negotiation, and deal-management skills.
- Learning velocity and coachability, demonstrated through specific behavior change after feedback; ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and executive audiences.
- Executive presence, customer trust, resilience, intellectual honesty, and excellent communication skills.
- B.A., B.S. degree or equivalent in a related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in data, cloud, analytics, AI, or adjacent technical domains
- Experience with Fortune 500 or security-sensitive organizations
- Experience with cloud ecosystems, open-source or consumption-based products, or emerging categories
Workplace
- Travel within the assigned territory as required.
Skills
- CRM
- Kubernetes