What you will do:
- Drive pipeline generation by proactively prospecting new customers through email, social media, cold-calling, and events, while also qualifying inbound leads to create high-quality opportunities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Solutions Architects, and Partners to identify customer needs, craft compelling solutions, and deliver a seamless customer experience.
- Apply a solution-selling approach and leverage the MEDDIC sales methodology to deeply understand customer pain points, quantify business impact, and position Zilliz’s value proposition effectively.
- Own the sales process from engagement to close, including negotiating complex enterprise deals, ensuring accurate ACV/TCV forecasting, and identifying growth opportunities with existing customers.
- Champion the Zilliz brand by evangelizing its key differentiators and fostering a high-performance, team-oriented culture that inspires collaboration and collective success.
What we are looking for:
- Proven experience in sales with 5+ years in SaaS/PaaS or Big Data companies, ideally with prior experience in early-stage startups and fast-growing environments.
- Strong self-starter mentality with a passion for working in fast-paced, innovative settings and the resilience to quickly recover from setbacks.
- Genuine enthusiasm for open-source and AI/ML technologies, with a drive to stay at the forefront of industry trends and products.
- Results-driven mindset, characterized by a relentless pursuit of excellence and a strong desire to consistently exceed targets.
- High emotional intelligence and humility, with the ability to collaborate effectively, accept feedback, seek growth, and build strong relationships with both teammates and customers.
What We Do
Zilliz is a leading vector database company for production-ready AI. Built by the engineers who created Milvus, the world's most popular open-source vector database, Zilliz is on a mission to unleash data insights with AI. The company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations rapidly create AI/ML applications, and unlock the potential of unstructured data. By taking the burden of complex data infrastructure management off of its users, Zilliz is committed to bringing the power of AI to every corporation, every organization, and every individual.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Zilliz is backed by a number of prestigious investors, including Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures, Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners and others. Zilliz's technologies and products help over 1000 organizations worldwide easily create AI applications in various scenarios, including computer vision, image retrieval, video analysis, NLP, recommendation engines, targeted ads, customized search, smart chatbots, fraud detection, network security, new drug discovery, and much more. Learn more at zilliz.com or follow @zilliz_universe.
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