EMEA Sales Account Executive (Netherlands)

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Key Responsibilities

Segment territory to optimize your pipeline generation effort. Drive market awareness and generate qualified leads in lighthouse accounts. Follow-up promptly and effectively on marketing leads.

Requirements Summary

8+ years of experience in a quota-carrying enterprise sales position at a database company or established open-source technology company or a mature public cloud service provider.

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Join us as we scale our business by building on our tremendous success around the world. The massive database market is going to double over the next few years and TiDB is a global player positioned as a major disruptor with TiDB Database and Database as a Service offering. TiDB is the proven enterprise database foundation for the AI era. We help companies solve today’s database problems. Cost, scale, downtime, and complexity. With a distributed SQL architecture that is already battle-tested at enterprise scale. And now we help those same companies future-proof for innovating with AI, by giving them one unified foundation for transactional state, vector context, real-time analytics, and safe agent operations. In a world where AI agents need to work on fresh data, act safely, and scale economically, TiDB is not another database add-on. It is the highway system for agentic workloads. Large and high-growth organizations in markets as varied as financial services, logistics, gaming, e-commerce and software as a service have successfully deployed and expanded their TiDB footprint on mission-critical applications. Our strong open-source community roots (40,000+ stars on GitHub), innovative products and inclusive culture draw passionate and dedicated people to our company. Learn more about TiDB careers and join our team to be at the forefront of innovation and growth.

As an EMEA Sales Account Executive, you'll build pipelines, engage enterprise stakeholders, and close complex deals with large and high-growth organizations across financial services, logistics, gaming, e-commerce, and SaaS. You'll own your territory end-to-end, from prospecting through close, while helping shape our sales playbook as we grow.

Responsibilities

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→Segment territory to optimize your pipeline generation effort.
→Drive market awareness and generate qualified leads in lighthouse accounts.
→Follow-up promptly and effectively on marketing leads.
→Forecast, track customer activity in internal systems, update management in a timely fashion to help collectively drive success.
→Learn what matters to key personas involved in the selection of a new database.
→Get buy-in on our technical and business value proposition with client stakeholders.
→Progress sales cycles by aligning with core client needs and conveying compelling narratives.
→Close deals to meet quota objectives and help document customer success stories.
→Share your experience and learning in the field (needs, requirements, objections, competition) to help mature our sales plays and remove adoption hurdles.
→Accountable for individual expense budget management.

Requirements

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8+ years of experience in a quota-carrying enterprise sales position at a database company or established open-source technology company or a mature public cloud service provider.
Willingness to get your hands dirty to prospect, engage clients and help build our sales playbook.
A customer-friendly sales professional with a strong ability to accelerate customers' timelines and with a track record of building up and winning large opportunities.
Experience and willingness to strive in a startup environment with a strong appetite to streamline and simplify work-streams and processes.
Experience in the Start Up / Scale Up phase of a Technology Vendor is advantageous.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science is strongly preferred, but not a disqualifying requirement.
Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.
Fluency in Dutch and Chinese is preferred, but not required.

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. TiDB also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at TiDB.