Database Software, Cloud Computing, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Software

Enterprise Account Executive - Seattle, USA

United StatesOnsiteFull Time$90,000–$150,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

quota-carrying
B2B enterprise software sales
new-logo wins
self-sourced pipeline
complex deals
executives
technical evaluators
security
legal
finance

Nice to have

AI sales
data access
real-time context
retrieval
operational scale
AI applications

Role summary

SingleStore is seeking an accomplished Enterprise Account Executive to join their Sales Team, focusing on AI. This "AI Hunter" role involves creating new customers by identifying companies facing constraints in data access, real-time context, retrieval, or operational scale for their AI applications. The Account Executive will own a broad territory, build a self-sourced pipeline, create demand in an emerging AI category, and close greenfield enterprise opportunities. Responsibilities include prospecting, account planning, engaging diverse stakeholders, leading discovery, building business cases, managing complex sales cycles, and partnering with technical teams. The ideal candidate is a measurable enterprise hunter with technical curiosity and proven sales ability, capable of selling business outcomes.

SingleStore is looking for an accomplished sales professional to join our Sales Team. AI is moving from experimentation into production, and this role is an opportunity to break into AI while doing meaningful enterprise selling.

As an Account Executive, AI Hunter, your job is simple: create new SingleStore customers. You will find companies building AI applications where data access, real-time context, memory, retrieval, or operational scale is becoming a constraint—and turn those challenges into new SingleStore customers. You will own a broad territory, build a majority self-sourced pipeline, create demand in an emerging category, and close greenfield enterprise opportunities.

This is a true hunting role. You will engage customers before they have a defined project, develop customer-specific points of view, create urgency around business and technical problems, work with technical experts to land first production workloads, and build a measurable new-logo business with broad ownership. The ideal candidate is a measurable enterprise hunter who is competitive, curious, technically credible, resilient, and able to sell business outcomes. Direct AI sales experience is valuable, but proven selling ability and technical curiosity matter more than a narrow “AI seller” title.

Role and 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; stay resilient and effective through rejection and ambiguity.

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; own the stakeholder plan, mutual action plan, close plan, value case, stage gates, forecast, and commercial outcome.

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; showcase clear metrics such as pipeline created, meetings, conversion, quota attainment, and new-logo performance.

Be AI fluent: use AI and research tools productively and responsibly while applying judgment, validating outputs, and separating facts from hypotheses.

Travel within the assigned territory as required.

Required Skills and Experience

5+ years of quota-carrying B2B enterprise software sales experience, ideally selling to large or technically sophisticated organizations; experience in data, cloud, analytics, AI, or adjacent technical domains is a plus.

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.

Experience with Fortune 500 or security-sensitive organizations, cloud ecosystems, open-source or consumption-based products, or emerging categories is preferred.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses.

SingleStore’s base salary range for this role is $90,000 to $150,000 with annual target earnings of $180,000 to $300,000 at quota with significant accelerators for overperformance.

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