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Strategic Account Executive – Central/West
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Dataiku seeks a senior individual-contributor Strategic Account Executive to own enterprise sales across the Central/West territory. The role manages the full sales cycle, develops strategic relationships with prospects and customers, and positions Dataiku's AI and analytics platform as a source of business value. The executive will collaborate closely with marketing, product management, and sales engineering while building internal champions and navigating complex enterprise stakeholders. Success requires more than 10 years of software field-sales experience, consultative selling ability, strong competitive positioning, and comfort with 30–50% travel. Familiarity with big data, analytics, data science, BI/DW, or data integration is strongly preferred.
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I would explain the account strategy, stakeholder map, discovery process, business case, competitive landscape, and how I coordinated technical and executive resources. I would quantify the result and identify the actions that created customer confidence and moved the opportunity forward.
I start with business priorities and high-value use cases rather than product features. I align technical feasibility, governance requirements, adoption plans, and measurable success criteria, then build a phased roadmap that gives stakeholders confidence in both near-term value and long-term scalability.
I tailor the message to each audience while maintaining a shared business narrative. I identify decision makers, champions, influencers, and potential blockers early, validate their priorities through discovery, and use mutual action plans to maintain accountability across the buying group.
I first understand the customer's evaluation criteria and the incumbent or alternative solutions. I position differentiated capabilities against the customer's stated business outcomes, validate claims with relevant proof points, and avoid feature-by-feature comparisons that do not connect to strategic value.
I would segment accounts by potential, buying signals, and strategic fit; create account plans for top opportunities; and use travel for high-impact executive meetings, workshops, and deal progression. I would maintain disciplined pipeline reviews and virtual engagement rhythms to ensure broad territory coverage between visits.
About this role.
Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate analytics, machine learning, and AI agents with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack – empowering organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance.
The world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to operationalize AI and run it as a true business performance engine delivering measurable value. For more, visit the Dataiku blog, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Dataiku is looking for an experienced Strategic Account Executive to join our team. Since the launch of our company, we have experienced healthy growth and steady market demand. This is an individual contributor position, newly added due to business expansion.
We’re looking for someone who can express passion about new technologies and the possibilities of Data and Advanced Analytics to enterprise customers across a range of industries within an extensive network. This role consists of engaging prospects and customers about their related initiatives to help them develop a more efficient approach, leveraging our platform, Dataiku.
As a Strategic Account Executive at Dataiku, you’ll be responsible for managing the entire sales cycle and own a territory with prospects and customers across a variety of industries. We embrace a culture of accountable camaraderie, and this role will enable you to collaborate cross-functionally with colleagues in marketing, product management, and sales engineering. Together, you’ll showcase the business value of Dataiku’s platform, DSS.
What you’ll need to be successful –
- 10+ years experience in software field sales
- Strong belief in a customer centric selling philosophy and applying a consultative approach in customer interactions
- Background in selling innovation and new concepts to large Enterprises
- Strong ability to develop a vision match with prospects and customers, to develop alignment across different groups and cultivate champions
- Good articulation of competitive positioning
- Comfortable traveling 30 to 50%
- Desired Skills Experience in ‘data’ – big data, analytics, data science, BI/DW, data integration
- Early start-up experience is a plus!
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Compensation and Benefits
The final compensation package for this role will be determined during the interview process and is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, geographic location, internal equity, education, skill set, experience and training. Eligible roles may also be entitled to receive commission or other variable compensation through Dataiku’s incentive compensation program.
Dataiku also offers comprehensive benefits, including stock options, medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, a 401k company match, paid vacations and sick leave, paid parental leave, employer paid disability coverage, and additional health and wellbeing perks and benefits. Dataiku reserves the right to amend or modify employee perks and benefits at any time.
US only national base pay ranges
$160,000—$170,000 USD
What are you waiting for!
At Dataiku, you’ll be part of a journey to shape the ever-evolving world of AI. We’re not just building a product; we’re crafting the future of AI. If you’re ready to make a significant impact in a company that values innovation, collaboration, and your personal growth, we can’t wait to welcome you to Dataiku! And if you’d like to learn even more about working here, you can visit our Dataiku LinkedIn page.
Our practices are rooted in the idea that everyone should be treated with dignity, decency and fairness. Dataiku also believes that a diverse identity is a source of strength and allows us to optimize across the many dimensions that are needed for our success. Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All employment practices are based on business needs, without regard to race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, veteran status or any other aspect which makes an individual unique or protected by laws and regulations in the locations where we operate. This applies to all policies and procedures related to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, performance, promotion and termination and all other conditions and terms of employment. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please contact us at: reasonable-accommodations@dataiku.com
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