Database Account Executive

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The Enterprise Account Manager (EAM), Database Business Unit, is responsible for the accelerating growth and retention of Solar Winds’ largest and most complex database accounts. This includes expanding underpenetrated accounts as well as breaking into new enterprise logos. This role focuses on high-value database performance solutions (such as SQL Sentry and Database Performance Analyzer) within the enterprise market.

Unlike traditional inside sales, the EAM manages multi-stakeholder sales cycles, navigates complex organizational hierarchies, and builds long-term executive relationships. You will serve as the “CEO of your territory,” orchestrating internal resources, technical experts, and channel partners to solve large-scale data challenges and secure multi-year commitments.

• Strategic Account Planning: Develop and execute proactive territory growth strategies that drive incremental demand, expand buying centers, and increase database solution penetration across enterprise environments. Identify whitespace, competitive displacement opportunities, and new stakeholder entry points within both underpenetrated accounts and net-new enterprise accounts.
• Complex Sales Orchestration: Manage long-term, high-contract-value sales cycles from initial discovery through technical validation and final procurement.
• Consultative Executive Presence: Build and expand relationships with “C-level” and “Director-level” stakeholders (CDO, VP of Infrastructure) to align database performance initiatives with measurable business outcomes like cost-savings, operational resilience, and risk mitigation. Establish credibility in environments where Solar Winds may have limited existing footprints.
• Channel Ecosystem
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work in lockstep with Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and Distributors to strategically open doors within target enterprise accounts. Leverage the channel not only for fulfillment but as proactive route to access new buying centers and accelerate enterprise penetration.
• Collaborative Selling: Act as the lead orchestrator between Sales Engineering, Product Management, and Executive Leadership to deliver tailored solutions for complex database environments.
• Field Engagement: Travel as needed (up to 25–40%) for face-to-face customer meetings, technical workshops, and industry trade shows to solidify relationships and close high-stakes deals.
• Retention & Renewals: Partner with Customer Success to ensure 100% renewal rates by maintaining a continuous “value-realization” loop with the customer as well as identifying cross-sell and upsell opportunities
• CRM Precision: Maintain an accurate, high-integrity pipeline in Salesforce, providing detailed forensic-level forecasting for enterprise-level deals.

• Annual Contract Value (ACV): Total new and expansion revenue generated within assigned enterprise accounts.
• Pipeline Velocity: Speed of progression through complex, multi-stage enterprise sales cycles.
• Channel-Led Revenue: Percentage of deals successfully co-sold and fulfilled through key partners.
• Customer Lifetime Value (LTV): Increasing the footprint of database solutions across various departments (e.g., Dev Ops, Cloud Ops, Data Science).

• Enterprise Sales
  
  Experience:…