Enterprise Account Executive - Chicago

Role Summary

We are expanding our GTM team and are looking for an Enterprise Account Executive to drive net-new logo acquisition across enterprise accounts in Chicago. If you have a background selling technical infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you!

CULTURE - WE ALL SHAPE IT

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here https://clickhouse.com/company/careers. Check out our blog posts https://clickhouse.com/blog or follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/clickhouseinc/life/0c1ee7f4-2129-488d-b413-e7f6270659fd/?viewAsMember=true to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

• Identify and nurture opportunities, build and foster pipeline, close short term Cloud monthly contracts as well as annual committed spend arrangements.
• Articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and products.
• Use a solution-based approach to selling and creating value for customers.
• Promote the innovation happening around ClickHouse that is powering ClickHouse Cloud.
• Track customer details including use cases details, decision criteria, next steps, and forecasting in Salesforce.
• Accurately forecast business on a monthly cadence.
• Contribute to the user and developer community in the region by engaging in affinity meetups but also driving ClickHouse specific meetups in key metro cities.
• Working long (but rewarding) hours at a very high growth startup.

Requirements

What you bring along

• Proactively and efficiently manage resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes
• Align the ClickHouse’s Cloud solution to the customer’s business needs, challenges, and technical requirements.
• Recent experience working with GenAI or AI Native companies.
• 5+ years of experience at a minimum with Open Source software business models is preferred and proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software is a minimum requirement.
• Passion for building long lasting customer relationships and working cross-functionally within a diverse team to deliver outstanding results.
• Strong business acumen and technology focus with outstanding communication both written and oral, negotiation and presentation skills.

Bonus Points for

• Sales experience with cloud SaaS, data analytics and/or observability solutions
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a track record for delivering results in fast-moving environments.
• Experience effectively working remotely in a global, distributed organization.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

About the Company

The ClickPipes Platform plays a critical role in driving the growth of our company and ensuring the success of our clients by seamlessly onboarding and integrating data from diverse data sources into ClickHouse. Working at a petabyte scale and in high-velocity environments, this role offers an exceptional opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, operate with significant autonomy, and make a measurable impact.

Working on ClickPipes offers the opportunity to operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy, tackle ambiguous problems, and deliver features that are used by some of the most data-intensive companies in the world.

You can find some of the teams recent work highlighted in our blog:

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll design and build complex, data-heavy user interfaces and own customer-facing workflows end-to-end. While this role has a strong frontend focus, engineers are expected to work comfortably across the whole stack, collaborating on backend services, APIs, and system integrations as needed. We’re looking for T-shaped engineers who bring deep frontend expertise while remaining pragmatic and effective beyond UI tasks.

Flexible Scaling and Monitoring in ClickPipes https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickpipes-flexible-scaling-monitoring

MySQL CDC Connector for ClickPipes https://clickhouse.com/blog/mysql-cdc-connector-clickpipes-beta

The Evolution of ClickPipes https://clickhouse.com/blog/evolution-of-clickpipes

Additional Information

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