World’s leading Data Intelligence Platform supercharging over 500,000 GPUs across all data workloads
Account Executive – FSI
Location
New York
Posted
23 days ago
Salary
$150K - $170K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Account Executive – FSI
DDN
• Drive new logo and expansion revenue across an FSI territory through existing relationships, proactive prospecting, and partner leverage. • Build and maintain a disciplined pipeline in Salesforce; forecast accurately and meet quarterly revenue commitments. • Establish and deepen executive-level relationships (CTO, VP Infrastructure, Head of Quant/AI/ML) with a focus on business outcomes — GPU ROI, data pipeline efficiency, and infrastructure TCO. • Lead complex, team-selling efforts with Solutions Engineers, DDN leadership, and channel/OEM partners to win competitive evaluations. • Qualify opportunities rigorously using a structured framework (MEDDIC); invest deepest where Economic Buyers, clear pain, and Champions are in place. • Respond to RFPs and customer proposals with compelling, outcome-driven narratives — clearly articulating DDN's throughput benchmarks, TCO advantages, and NVIDIA partnership credentials. • Drive a territory strategy aligned to DDN's brand and go-to-market priorities; coordinate partner enablement and joint pipeline development. • Manage post-sale relationships with a strategy to capture repeat business, reference customers, and case study opportunities. • Represent DDN at industry events, FSI conferences, and trade shows to raise brand presence and develop pipeline.
Job Requirements
- 6–8+ years of experience selling enterprise storage, data infrastructure, or HPC solutions, with consistent top-quartile quota attainment.
- Established FSI relationships with decision-makers in trading infrastructure, quant research, risk/analytics, or enterprise AI/ML functions.
- Demonstrated ability to independently originate, develop, and close large, complex transactions — including multi-party, channel-involved deals.
- Comfortable operating at the executive level, translating infrastructure capability into business and financial outcomes.
- Experience working with and through channel and OEM partners to extend territory reach and accelerate deal cycles.
- Proficiency with Salesforce for pipeline management, forecasting, and accurate record-keeping.
- Familiarity with DDN, HPC storage, AI infrastructure, or GPU compute ecosystems is a strong advantage.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
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