--- title: 'Enterprise Account Executive - India (Bengaluru) at MinIO' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-india-bengaluru-minio-bengaluru-2pp1q3hen01f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Enterprise Account Executive - India (Bengaluru) at MinIO - **Company:** MinIO - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio/jobs/5371688008 ## Job description MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data. We are seeking a technical, creative, and entrepreneurial Enterprise Account Executive to drive MinIO’s next stage of growth in the India region. This is a role for a proven seller who can combine technical depth in storage, data infrastructure, data lake/lakehouse, AI/ML, and HPC environments with the ability to close complex $250K+ enterprise deals. The ideal candidate has experience competing against legacy storage solutions, thrives in a startup environment, and brings a mix of creativity, persistence, and technical credibility to win transformative deals. ## What You Will Do - Drive New Business Acquisition: Actively prospect and identify enterprise opportunities, leveraging your network and creative outreach to generate pipeline and close high-value deals - Technical & Vision Selling: Confidently articulate how MinIO delivers transformational outcomes for data infrastructure, AI/ML, and HPC not just incremental improvements. Translate technical capabilities into compelling business value. - Close Complex Deals: Own the full sales cycle from lead to close, with a focus on $250K+ opportunities and annual quota attainment of $1.5M+ - Compete & Win Against Legacy Software: Position MinIO against traditional storage vendors by demonstrating the advantages of cloud-native, S3-compatible object storage for modern workloads. - Educate & Influence: Teach prospects about AI infrastructure optimization and data architecture modernization, leading them beyond product comparisons to strategic transformation. - Quantify Value: Build business cases and ROI models that include quantified benefits, risk mitigation, and financial justification. - Partner-First Territory Strategy: Build and execute partner-led co-selling strategies, working with channel and alliance partners to expand territory coverage and accelerate deals. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Solutions Engineering, Product, and Marketing to deliver tailored solutions, ensure successful POCs, and create a seamless customer experience. - Forecasting & Planning: Maintain disciplined pipeline management, accurate forecasting, and clear account strategies that support predictable and scalable revenue growth. ## Your Skills and Experience - Enterprise Sales Expertise: 7+ years of enterprise sales experience with consistent quota attainment ($1.5M+) and average deal sizes of $250K+. - Technical Acumen: Strong knowledge of storage, data infrastructure, data lakehouse, AI/ML, and HPC environments. Able to engage technical stakeholders and translate technical concepts into business impact. - Partner-Led Approach: History of building co-selling strategies with channel and alliance partners to scale market presence. - Vision & Thought Leadership: Skilled at leading transformation sales by shaping buyer thinking and providing unique customer insights. - Competitive Selling: Proven ability to sell against legacy storage solutions and displace entrenched vendors with a differentiated value proposition. - Startup Experience: Demonstrated success in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments where creativity and adaptability are essential. - Challenger Mindset: Skilled at teaching, tailoring, and challenging customer perspectives to unlock new opportunities. - Network & Territory Expertise: Deep relationships within the territory, including decision makers and influencers who can be leveraged to accelerate business. - Communication & Influence: Exceptional presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills with both technical and executive stakeholders. - Education: BA/BS in computer science, engineering, business, or related field; MBA preferred. ## Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO) MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law. ## About MinIO ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: MinIO provides high-performance, S3-compatible object storage purpose-built for AI, analytics, and cloud-native workloads. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $126.3M, last round $103M raised ~4 years ago) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Garima Kapoor, Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy, Harshavardhana ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure / Object Storage - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO), AI/ML teams, analytics platforms - **Mission**: Remove every barrier between organizations and their data, enabling secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure. ## Products & Services - **[MinIO AIStor](https://www.min.io/)**: High-performance object store with native S3 compatibility, consistent sub-10ms latency, exabyte-scale scalability, and 99.999999999% durability. Designed for AI training, inference, and analytics. Includes zero-touch operations, self-healing architecture, and 40% lower TCO. - **Context Memory for AI Inference**: Purpose-built memory layer that delivers 95%+ GPU utilization, 50% lower cost per token, and average savings of $2M per 100 GPUs. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: $126.3M total funding raised (Series B, last round $103M) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors listed on company site but not named in public summaries; strategic partner Databricks (named 2026 ISV Storage Partner of the Year) - **Growth Signals**: - 77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO - 32.9K+ GitHub stars, 53.3K+ community members, 1.4K+ contributors - Peak throughput of 19.2 TiB/s - Awarded 2026 Databricks ISV Storage Partner of the Year - Expanding globally with open roles in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, France, and across the US ## Competitive Advantages - **Unmatched performance**: Sub-10ms latency and ability to saturate any hardware (drive IOPS to network throughput) - **Limitless scalability**: Single flat namespace scales across clusters, data centers, and clouds to exabyte level - **Enterprise-grade reliability**: 11 nines durability, self-healing, zero-touch operations - **Ecosystem integration**: Native support for PyTorch, Iceberg, and all major AI frameworks; richest S3 API support - **Cost efficiency**: 40% lower total cost of ownership compared to legacy storage ## Strategic Focus - Accelerating AI transformation with a data foundation that unifies edge, core, and cloud environments - Enabling zero-copy hybrid data architectures for analytics and agentic computing - Deepening partnerships with AI/ML platforms (e.g., Databricks, NVIDIA) and expanding into new geographies ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “hackers” who are problem solvers, kind, and minimalist. Emphasis on empathy, open discourse, rapid prototyping, data-driven change, and going above and beyond for customers. - **Work environment**: Remote-first, globally distributed. Offices in Redwood City, CA (hybrid for some roles). - **Benefits**: Medical, vision, dental insurance; paid maternity and paternity leave; $25,000 basic life insurance; long-term disability; unlimited vacation plus 12 paid holidays; 401(k) with match. - **Diversity**: Hiring focused solely on talent and qualifications, regardless of background or demographics. - **Engineering culture**: Strong open-source community (32.9K GitHub stars), rapid prototyping, and minimal overhead in product and process. ## Sources 1. [MinIO Careers Page](https://www.min.io/careers) 2. [MinIO Official Site](https://www.min.io/) 3. [MinIO Job Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio) 4. [MinIO About Page](https://www.minio.io/about) 5. 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