Strategic Account Executive - Financial Services As a Strategic Account Executive for Financial Services, you will own a focused book of named financial services accounts — including banks, asset managers, exchanges, insurance carriers, and fintech platforms. You will be responsible for the full sales cycle: from identifying new use cases and building executive relationships to negotiating and closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for someone who thrives in a technical sales environment and wants to be a foundational part of building ClickHouse’s strategic sales motion in one of the most demanding verticals in the world. What You’ll Do - Own a named account list of strategic financial services organizations and develop deep, multi-threaded relationships across technical, business, and executive stakeholders - Drive net new ARR and expansion revenue through a consultative, value-based sales approach - Lead complex enterprise sales cycles, including procurement, legal, security review, and multi-product negotiations - Partner closely with Solutions Architects to ensure technical alignment and long-term customer success - Understand and articulate ClickHouse’s technical differentiation — including performance benchmarks, architecture, and deployment models — at a level of depth that earns credibility with data engineers, architects, and CTOs - Develop and execute strategic account plans, identifying expansion opportunities and mapping the political landscape within each account - Represent the voice of the customer internally, shaping product roadmap priorities and go-to-market strategy for the financial services vertical - Travel to customer sites, conferences, and team offsites as needed (approximately 25–40%) What We’re Looking For - 7+ years of enterprise sales experience, with at least 3 years selling to financial services organizations (banking, capital markets, insurance, fintech, or asset management) - Demonstrated track record closing large, complex deals ($500K+ ACV) with long sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders - Experience selling technical infrastructure products — databases, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or similar — is required; you must be able to engage credibly in technical conversations - Deep understanding of the financial services technology landscape, including data architecture patterns common in FS environments (real-time risk, fraud, trading analytics, regulatory reporting) - Strong executive presence with the ability to build trusted advisor relationships at the C-suite and VP level - Experience working in a high-growth, early-stage or scaling startup environment is strongly preferred - Familiarity with MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, or similar enterprise sales methodologies - Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity in a fast-moving environment Nice to Have - Prior experience selling open-source or consumption-based products - Experience with real-time analytics, time-series databases, OLAP, or columnar data systems - Existing relationships with data/technology buyers at major financial institutions