Named Hunter Account Executive - Abu Dhabi Public Sector

SLSQ427R156

Location: London (relocation to Dubai expected early 2027)

Do you want to help solve the world’s toughest problems with Data and AI? That’s what we do every day at Databricks.

Reporting to the Middle East and Africa sales leadership team, you’ll partner with a team of accomplished Data, AI and industry specialists. Your mission is to drive the adoption of Databricks across a select group of organisations. We’re looking for a proven Enterprise Account Executive to join our team in London (relocation to Dubai expected early 2027) to deliver net-new strategic business, bringing an informed point of view on Data and Advanced Analytics. Your insight will shape winning strategies and together with our teams and partners enable you to deliver exceptional value to customers.

The impact you will have:

• Assess your accounts and develop a strategy to engage all buying centres, driving deals forward and shortening decision cycles
• Use a solution-led approach to create meaningful value for new logo accounts
• Identify and close quick wins while managing longer, complex sales cycles
• Own a defined list of prospects and build strategies targeting all critical stakeholders
• Support broader customer transformation goals through strategic partnerships, well-scoped services, training, and targeted Executive engagement
• Build strong value throughout the sales process to guide successful negotiation
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams to maximise impact across your ecosystem
• Own the consumption narrative, using demand plans to surface high-value use cases in each account
• Stay customer-centric by delivering both technical and business outcomes through the Databricks Intelligence Platform
  
  

What we look for:

• Strong new business development background with a track record of closing and exceeding quota in consumption based business (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
• Experience navigating procurement frameworks and mechanisms
• Background in Cloud software, open source technology, or the Data and AI space
• Experience driving adoption of usage-based SaaS services and co-selling with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Ability to identify key use cases and buying centres to expand Databricks’ value within an organisation
• Methods for co-developing business cases and securing C-level sponsorship
  Experience building strong champions, collaborative teams and productive partnerships
• Understanding of consumption-based land-and-expand sales models
  Familiarity with robust sales methodologies (e.g., account planning, MEDDPICC, Value Selling) and accurate forecasting
• Demonstrated contributions and a consistent track record of success
• Based in London (relocation to Dubai expected early 2027) with availability for travel.
• Demonstrable experience working with integration partners 
• Fluent English, knowledge of Arabic is a plus.