Account Executive, Commercial Accounts

TLDR

Develop and close business opportunities while collaborating closely with partner sales to accelerate sales growth in the market.

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

About the Role

The Account Executive, Commercial Accounts will be responsible for developing/closing business indirectly with a number of customers in their assigned market territory through working with the partner sales community. The primary focus is aimed at closing sales opportunities and is achieved by collaborating with partners to identify, develop, accelerate, up-sell and close transactions.  

What You’ll Do

  • Develop and close business with accounts
  • Leverage partners to close sales with their end customers 
  • Cold calls to develop sales activities with a large number of new mid-market and high-segment end users 
  • Up-sell and cross-sell to the existing customer base 
  • Forecasts and account/opportunity details in SalesForce
  • Propose, coordinate and participate to marketing activities in the defined territory 

What You’ll Bring:

  • Fluent in English  
  • Direct, new business sales experience  
  • Experience with vendors associated with Virtualization technology is a plus 
  • Have experience of selling through channel and direct 
  • Track record of accomplishment selling to the IT infrastructure specialists
  • Proven ability to develop new sales 
  • Be a self-starter with the ability to learn quickly
  • Be a high-energy salesperson
  • Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly
  • Be comfortable travelling for at least 50% of the time.
  • Current full driving license  

What You'll Get:

  • 25 statutory annual leave days, 5 contractual holidays, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
  • Occupational and additional healthcare coverage for medical, disability, and life events
  • Travel insurance for work and leisure trips up to 45 days, covering medical expenses, lost luggage, and legal costs
  • Accident insurance for workplace injuries and occupational diseases, plus group life insurance
  • Unemployment insurance contributions supporting benefits, training, and pay guarantee
  • Statutory pension funded by employer and employee
  • Access up to 12 free therapy sessions annually, plus legal and financial advice
  • Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Please note: If the applicant is permanently located outside of Finland. Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for the position. Remote work is only possible for employees located in Finland.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Occupational and additional healthcare coverage for medical, disability, and life events

Learning Budget

Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Paid Time Off

25 statutory annual leave days, 5 contractual holidays, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares

Wellness Stipend

Access up to 12 free therapy sessions annually, plus legal and financial advice

Veeam Software leads the market in data resilience, offering robust solutions for data backup, recovery, portability, security, and intelligence. Our platform supports a wide range of environments—including cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes—empowering organizations to maintain control over their data, ensuring it’s always protected and available. Trusted by over 550,000 customers globally, Veeam is dedicated to helping businesses not only recover from data loss but thrive beyond it.

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