Senior Account Executive

About Druva

You won’t just join a company at Druva, you’ll help shape the future of data security at the moment it matters most. We are building a modern standard with our cloud-native solutions, designed to simplify the toughest challenges in cyber resilience for our customers. As the pioneer and market leader in fully managed SaaS data protection, we help organizations secure and recover their data from ransomware, cyberattacks, and operational disruptions without the complexity, cost, or risk of legacy infrastructure.

Our momentum is backed by the market: Druva was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Cyber-Recovery, and a Leader & Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Cloud Data Protection Radar. Even better, customers validate that leadership every day through strong Gartner Peer Insights ratings, standout Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and top willingness-to-recommend results.

About the Team

This role works within a highly collaborative, performance-driven EMEA wide sales team focused on helping customers modernize data protection and cyber resilience with Druva’s 100% SaaS platform. The Account Executive will own the Southern Europe territory end-to-end, maintaining and expanding existing customer relationships while actively hunting and closing net-new logos.

Role Purpose & Impact

As the Senior Account Executive, you will own and execute the go-to-market strategy for the Southern Europe territory, managing a defined book of business while identifying, prospecting, and closing new customer opportunities across organizations.

You will build trusted relationships with IT and security leaders by understanding their business challenges and aligning them to Druva’s cloud-native data protection and cyber resilience platform. Partnering closely with your Systems Engineer, you will lead discovery, technical validation, and solution design to clearly articulate the value of a SaaS-based approach.

You will collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Success, Channel Partners, and internal teams to support onboarding, adoption, renewals, and workload expansion, while building pipeline, forecasting accurately, and consistently delivering against revenue targets.

What You’ll Do

• Prospect and close new sales opportunities in your defined territory
• Manage a defined set of existing customer accounts
• Manage and close new sales opportunities generated by yourself, SDRs and Druva channel partners
• Generate results; consistent, reliable performance with 100% minimum attainment expected
• Partner with the local, regional and national channel partners to drive brand awareness and buzz in your territory
• Arrange and help conduct initial product demonstrations and presentations
• Manage sales process, coordinate virtual teams to opportunity closure
• Document opportunity management in SFDC and Aviso
• Ongoing account management to ensure customer satisfaction and to drive additional expansion cross-sell/up-sell opportunities

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5+ years of Acquisition Account Executive experience with documented quota attainment
• Sales experience in the IT and Backup Recovery /Data Protection industry preferred
• Proven ability to build executive-level relationships
• Tenacity to continually build pipeline
• Continuous learner and student of the game - you want to constantly get better
• Ability to understand the bigger picture and the business drivers around IT
• You strive for greatness and push yourself