
Enterprise Account Executive (Hybrid - London office) at Astronomer (London, United Kingdom)
Astronomer· London, United Kingdom·
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Job description
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.
About this role 🚀
If you're seeking a rapidly scaling company with the right product market fit, in the right market conditions, with an engaged and experienced executive team, and amazing humans to sell alongside, you're going to want to check us out! 🎯. We are actively seeking a motivated Enterprise Account Executive to join our London based sales team! This is a hunting role working with companies over 1000 employees. You will play a critical role in the success of the region driving revenue in new logo accounts and expanding our existing customer base.
👀 Location: This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week in our London office. 🏅 We offer a collaborative culture where wins are celebrated together and teammates share knowledge and support. ✈️ This role includes some travel to meet with customers and teammates.
What You Get to Do:
- Drive growth together: Lead the full sales cycle from prospecting to close while partnering closely with clients and teammates.
- Prospect strategically: Identify, qualify, and pursue opportunities through outbound and inbound channels.
- Position solutions: Deliver compelling demonstrations and craft tailored proposals that align with customer goals.
- Partner with teammates: Collaborate with marketing, sales engineering, and product to ensure a smooth handoff and long-term success.
- Stay informed: Keep current on industry trends and competitive offerings to position Astro as the leading solution.
What You Bring to the Role:
- 5+ years of sales experience, ideally in SaaS, data platforms, or cloud solutions selling to prospects/customers at an enterprise level
- 2+ years of field experience with in-person customer engagement.
- Proven success running complex enterprise sales cycles in data infrastructure, developer tooling, or adjacent technical domains selling to engineering, data, or platform teams.
- A history of consistent success in meeting or exceeding new business quotas in high-growth environments.
- Comfort with data orchestration, analytics, or related technologies is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build trust and influence senior stakeholders.
- A proactive mindset with perseverance and accountability.
- Proficiency in CRM tools (Salesforce) and sales enablement platforms.
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Experience selling to data teams, developers, or technical buyers.
- Background in data orchestration or Airflow-related technologies.
- Prior success in a startup or high-growth environment.
At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Why work at Astronomer
- High-Impact Work: "Every Fortune 500 AI initiative, every real-time analytics platform, every decision-making system that matters — it all starts with pipelines." Employees work on infrastructure that powers the world's most critical data and AI systems.
- Open Source Leadership: As stewards of Apache Airflow, engineers contribute to a project used by millions of developers and 80K+ organizations.
- Collaborative Culture: "Engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success operate as one team. Handoff culture doesn't exist here." The company emphasizes collaboration without politics.
- Work Environment: HQ in NYC with offices globally. Some roles are in-office, others are flexible. The team is distributed across 4 continents and 20+ countries.
- Perks: Top-tier health coverage (little to no cost), unlimited PTO (with a stated culture of actually using it), generous parental leave, annual wellness day off, wellness programs, and disability/life insurance.
- Engineering Culture: The engineering team focuses on reliability, iterative shipping, and writing about hard problems. They build infrastructure, tooling, and platform features for production-grade data orchestration.