Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Enterprise account executives remain pivotal in SaaS because they translate a product’s technical value into business outcomes across long, multi-stakeholder buying journeys. In this case, the role sits in the modern data stack category, where platform adoption often expands from an initial use case into broader, organization-wide standardization. That makes the remit inherently tied to how enterprise SaaS vendors land, prove value, and then grow accounts over time.
For a SaaS sales career, this position offers durable exposure to the mechanics that separate transactional selling from platform selling. The work touches cross-functional alignment with marketing, customer success, alliances, operations, and analytics, which mirrors how mature SaaS revenue organizations run pipeline, manage handoffs, and reduce friction in the customer lifecycle. It also builds fluency in discovery-driven sales, executive communication, and forecasting discipline, all transferable across enterprise SaaS segments.
This role tends to suit professionals who prefer structured deal management, rigorous qualification, and clear accountability for revenue outcomes. It aligns with candidates who are comfortable navigating complex org charts, coordinating internal specialists, and sustaining momentum through multi-threaded conversations. It will appeal to those who want their craft measured in repeatable process as much as in closed-won results.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. The Enterprise Account Executive will drive towards aggressive new customer and partner revenue goals, while growing our footprint in the Enterprise market.
This is a full-time, remote position and must be based out of the US in NJ, NY, CT or PA.
What You’ll Do
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Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, customer success, alliances, operations, and analytics to drive pipeline generation and exceed revenue goals.
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Accelerate the growth & adoption of Fivetran in the Enterprise Market through value-driven sales cycles.
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Lead in-depth discovery and demonstrate a deep interest in our Enterprise customers’ data challenges, identify required capabilities and positive business outcomes to drive towards valuable long term customer engagements.
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Speak comfortably about Fivetran’s vision to a broad range of audiences from C-level executives to individual contributors.
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Seek out and land deals with new Enterprise target accounts, then look to grow their footprint with Fivetran through new use cases, cross-sells and expansion.
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Build strategic relationships with partners in order to identify new opportunities and accelerate deal cycles.
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Forecast accurately and provide clear visibility on sales and revenue performance by actively managing and progressing opportunities.
Skills We’re Looking For
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8+ years of large enterprise software sales experience and well-developed pattern recognition for navigating complex organizations.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to hold multiple stakeholders accountable throughout a complex value-driven sales cycle.
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In-depth familiarity with the modern data technology industry and key players.
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You are familiar with a solution-based approach to selling, have experience managing a complex sales process and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organization and contact management capabilities.
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You thrive in an extremely fast-paced, ever changing work environment.
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You’re able to keep up with a highly motivated team in a market that is growing extremely fast.
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You are extremely organized.
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You are able to juggle lots of things at once while not letting anything drop.
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You are a strategic thinker.
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You are able to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way. You are a problem solver.
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You are resilient and creative, able to be resourceful to proactively seek out a solution to a problem.
This position qualifies for Fivetran’s incentive plan, and it’s common for employees in this role to achieve the total on-target earnings.
As part of our commitment to setting new hires up for success, all new sales team members attend a one-week, in-person Revenue Bootcamp during their second week at Fivetran. This bootcamp, held at one of our designated company locations, requires travel and is a mandatory part of the onboarding process.
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The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.
Pay Range
$151,351—$189,189 USD
OTE (On Target Earning)
$302,702—$378,378 USD
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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