Account Executive - Financial Services

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

This role plays a key role within a highly strategic Financial Services account, driving Teradata’s continued growth with one of our most important customers. The Senior Account Executive will develop and expand executive-level relationships, identify and pursue new lines of business, and create growth opportunities within an established enterprise footprint.

With strong momentum in AI, cloud analytics, and Teradata’s market positioning, this role suits a senior, self-directed seller who knows how to create opportunity inside large, established customers.

To be successful, you’ll bring executive presence, strong business acumen, and the ability to navigate complex customer environments. You are comfortable engaging senior stakeholders, uncovering unmet needs, and positioning modern data and analytics solutions to address both current and future business priorities.

• Own and execute account strategy for a large, complex Financial Services customer

• Drive growth through expansion into new lines of business and new opportunity areas

• Build alignment with client stakeholders around Teradata’s cloud, analytics, and AI vision

• Serve as the “face of Teradata” to the customer and the “voice of the customer” internally

• Develop trusted relationships with senior decision makers and key influencers

• Lead pipeline development, opportunity strategy, and deal execution from discovery through close

• Articulate business value, outcomes, and ROI in both business and technical conversations

• Coordinate Teradata’s engagement across internal teams and partner resources

• Navigate multi-stakeholder decision processes within large enterprise environments

You’ll collaborate closely across Teradata’s go-to-market organization, including sales leadership, solution engineering, and product teams. You’ll also engage with partners across the ecosystem—such as System Integrators (SI), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), and Independent Software Vendors (ISV)—to deliver value-driven outcomes for customers.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience (Master’s preferred)

• Proven experience managing and expanding large, complex enterprise accounts

• Background selling into Financial Services organizations preferred

• Demonstrated success expanding existing customers into new areas of opportunity

• Strong executive presence with experience engaging Sr. Director, VP, and C-level stakeholders

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience selling complex, multi-stakeholder technology solutions

• A proactive, self-directed approach to opportunity creation and account growth

• Ability to balance strategic relationship management with assertive new business development

• Solid understanding of technology, data, analytics, and AI concepts (deep technical expertise not required)

• Strong ability to communicate value to both technical and business audiences

• Experience navigating complex buying environments and longer sales cycles

• Strong presentation, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills

• Familiarity with enterprise sales processes, forecasting, and CRM platforms

This position operates in a virtual office environment and travel to customer sites as needed. Independent work and strong collaboration are both required. Travel up to 50% is expected.

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