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# Enterprise Account Executive - South Korea at Zilliz

- **Company:** Zilliz
- **Location:** Seoul, South Korea
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zilliz/a72bb831-5bd7-4ac4-b158-100be65185c5

## Job description

Zilliz is a fast-growing startup developing the industry’s leading vector database for enterprise-grade AI. Founded by the engineers behind Milvus, the world’s most popular open-source vector database, the company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations quickly create AI applications. On a mission to democratize AI, Zilliz is committed to simplifying data management for AI applications and making vector databases accessible to every organization.

## About the Role

Zilliz is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Enterprise Account Executive to drive our expansion in South Korea. As part of our global Sales team, you will play a key role in building and scaling our presence in one of the most dynamic and fast-growing AI and data infrastructure markets. At Zilliz, our Sales team is dedicated to accelerating customer success through innovative solutions and strategic partnerships. In this role, you will work closely with enterprise customers across South Korea, helping them navigate their data and AI transformation journeys using cutting-edge vector database technology. As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will own and develop your territory, engaging senior business and technical stakeholders to identify opportunities, drive complex sales cycles, and deliver long-term value. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Solutions Architects, Marketing, and Product teams to ensure customer success from initial engagement through expansion. Your impact will be critical in establishing Zilliz as a trusted partner in South Korea. With your passion for technology, strong enterprise sales acumen, and drive to win, you will empower organizations to unlock the full potential of their data and AI initiatives with Zilliz.

## What you will do

- Proactively prospect for new customers via email, social media, cold calling, and events
- Collaborate with Marketing, Customer Success, and SDRs to build and generate a strong sales pipeline
- Manage and qualify inbound leads, converting them into high-quality opportunities
- Apply a solution-selling approach to help customers identify, quantify, and address their business challenges through Zilliz’s value proposition
- Orchestrate cross-functional teams to deliver an optimal end-to-end customer experience
- Leverage the MEDDIC sales methodology to effectively manage and advance sales cycles
- Engage existing customers to drive product adoption and uncover expansion opportunities
- Successfully negotiate and close complex enterprise sales deals
- Evangelize Zilliz’s value proposition and key differentiators, helping customers quantify impact against their business priorities
- Consistently deliver accurate ACV/TCV forecasts
- Be a collaborative and inspiring teammate who contributes to a high-performing, results-driven culture

## What we are looking for

- Self-starter with a strong desire to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative startup environment
- Resilient and persistent, with the ability to recover quickly from setbacks and maintain a “never give up” attitude
- Passion for open-source technologies and AI/ML products
- 5+ years of sales experience in SaaS, PaaS, or Big Data companies
- Experience working in an early-stage company, with the ability to navigate and succeed in a fast-growing organization
- Consistent track record of exceeding sales quotas
- Established relationships with CIOs and other executive-level decision-makers
- Proven experience selling $250K+ ACV deals to cloud-native, digital-native companies and AI startups
- Strong drive to deliver exceptional results
- Demonstrates humility, seeks feedback and coaching, and embraces a growth mindset
- High EQ, with the ability to collaborate effectively internally and engage customers externally

Zilliz is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes people from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

## About Zilliz

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zilliz builds the world’s most popular open-source vector database, Milvus, and offers a fully managed Vector Lakebase to power enterprise AI applications at any scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $113M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Charles Xie (CEO) and James Luan (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Vector database management, AI infrastructure, software development
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise (10,000+ enterprise users)
- **Mission**: To make vector database capabilities accessible to every developer and organization, helping them harness unstructured data for AI/ML applications.

## Products & Services
- **[Milvus (Open-Source Vector Database)](https://zilliz.com/about)**: The leading open-source vector database, originally created by Zilliz and hosted under LF AI. Enables billion-scale similarity search, hybrid retrieval (vector, text, JSON, geospatial), and is production-tested across thousands of enterprises.
- **[Zilliz Vector Lakebase](https://zilliz.com/)**: A fully managed cloud service built on Milvus that unifies real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations. Features include on-demand pay-per-query pricing, hot-cache on S3 for 90% cost reduction, multi-tenancy, and seamless backfill/schema iteration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $113 million; annual revenue estimated at $2.2 million (as of latest report)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A led by 5Y Capital (2018); Series B led by Hillhouse Investment ($43M, 2020); Series B extension led by Prosperity7 Ventures ($60M, 2022)
- **Growth Signals**: 91 employees (8.9% YoY growth); 25,000+ LinkedIn followers (100% yearly growth); 10 active job postings (42.9% increase YoY); offices in Redwood City, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, Singapore

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source ecosystem**: Milvus is the most widely adopted open-source vector database, with a strong community and 10,000+ enterprise users.
- **Proven at scale**: Production-tested over 8 years, handling 100B+ entities and 10K+ QPS with consistent latency.
- **Cost efficiency**: All data/indexes stored on S3 with hot cache; on-demand compute reduces costs by up to 90%.
- **Full-spectrum search**: Supports hybrid retrieval combining vector, text, JSON, and geospatial queries with filtering and reranking.
- **Vortex format**: An open, next-gen storage format that delivers up to 10x faster random reads than Lance, with per-column flexibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise AI adoption**: Expanding the Vector Lakebase to serve massive multi-tenancy, global replication, and low-latency access for AI applications.
- **Global expansion**: Multi-region deployment and offices across the US, Europe, and Asia to support worldwide AI scaling.
- **Continuous innovation**: Investing in research (vector index research roles) and cloud platform reliability to maintain leadership in vector database technology.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Deep technical culture built by the creators of Milvus; engineers and scientists focused on advancing AI and data infrastructure.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote opportunities available; offices in Redwood City, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, and Singapore.
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation (cash + equity), regular bonus and equity refresh, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, generous PTO, 401(k) and regional retirement plans, and paid sick leave.
- **Engineering culture**: Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of databases and AI, with opportunities to contribute to open source and solve real-world scale challenges.

## Sources
1. [zilliz.com/careers](https://zilliz.com/careers) – Benefits, hybrid work model, company mission
2. [zilliz.com/about](https://zilliz.com/about) – Founding story, leadership, locations, investment, enterprise users
3. [zilliz.com](https://zilliz.com/) – Product details (Vector Lakebase, features, cost savings, scale)
4. [cr.linkedin.com/company/zilliz](https://cr.linkedin.com/company/zilliz) – Employee count, revenue, funding rounds, job postings, demographics
5. [theconsensus.dev/company/zilliz.html](https://theconsensus.dev/company/zilliz.html) – Funding history, job openings

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