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Zilliz

Account Executive - SF Bay Area

$100K–$180K

Redwood City, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 25, 2023

Experience
5+ years of B2B sales experience.

About the job

Drives new business for Zilliz by acquiring customers, managing technical enterprise sales cycles, and growing consumption-based revenue from evaluation through production adoption.

What you'll do

  • Own the sales cycle, including prospecting, qualification, technical evaluation, negotiation, and closing new customers.
  • Build pipeline through outbound prospecting and PLG/SLG opportunities; develop account strategies and engage technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Support customers through production adoption, grow workload consumption, and manage pipeline, forecasting, and customer feedback.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of B2B sales experience.
  • Proven record of pipeline generation, new-customer acquisition, and meeting or exceeding sales targets.
  • Strong prospecting skills and experience selling complex technical solutions to technical stakeholders and business buyers.
  • Experience with technical evaluations and proof-of-concept processes; strong commercial judgment and forecasting discipline.

Nice to have

  • Experience in cloud infrastructure, databases, data platforms, developer tools, or other technical enterprise software.
  • Experience with consumption-based, usage-based, product-led, or open-source-driven businesses.

Pay

USD 100,000–180,000 per year base salary

Tools

Milvus, Zilliz Cloud

AI focus

Sells infrastructure used to build AI applications and engages customers on AI application requirements and workloads.

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