Cloud Account Executive

at  Confluent

DESCRIPTION

Position at Confluent Singapore Pte. Ltd.
With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we’re creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.
One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.
Data Connects Us.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Cloud AE role and Cloud Acquisition Team is a new business sales function focused on landing new Cloud Customers and growing consumption within their accounts. As a crucial part of our sales team, you will have access to hot markets, numerous resources, and a diverse set of supportive leaders.
This is an individual contributor role. As a Cloud Account Executive, you’ll play a pivotal role in Confluent’s Customer Growth go-to-market strategy. Responsible for acquiring new Confluent Cloud customers, you’re the heart of our new logo sales growth engine. To be successful, you’ll be hardworking, energetic, and motivated by driving new business and solving problems.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Proactively prospect, identify, qualify, develop, and close net new logos.
• Grow consumption in PAYG and Commit accounts (ARR).
• Close business to meet and exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual bookings objectives.
• Build and maintain a healthy sales pipeline necessary to hit your sales targets through proactive outbound prospecting, discovery, and qualification.
• Align to an existing sales territory (RSD and AE Team), work collaboratively with your aligned sales territory (RSD and AEs) to drive territory-wide consumption and commit growth.
• Qualify and progress any meetings, signups, and use cases passed from Inbound SDRs.
• Execute outbound sales strategy to drive net new logo wins and incremental consumption in greenfield accounts.
• Nurture existing PAYGs to drive incremental consumption and/or sign a commit.
• Weekly forecasting on pipeline creation, progression, and quarterly sales targets.
• Participate in sales enablement training, including our comprehensive AE Onboarding Program.
• Work closely with the relevant internal partners to drive success (i.e., Legal, SE, Cloud SDRs, etc).