Account Executive, Portworx - Strategic Accounts - Telco (EMEA)

THE ROLE

Pure Storage is seeking a Strategic Accounts Account Executive to accelerate growth of the Portworx platform across Strategic Telco accounts in EMEA. You will own a small number of named Telco customers and prospects, build and execute multi year account plans, and drive platform adoption with a focus on business outcomes such as resilience, risk reduction, faster application delivery, and operational efficiency.

You will work closely with cross functional teams across Pure and Portworx, including Systems Engineering, Customer Experience, Marketing, Partner teams, Product, and field leadership. This is a high impact individual contributor role with a strong emphasis on strategic planning, disciplined execution, and customer intimacy.

What You’ll Do

• Own and grow a portfolio of named Strategic Telco accounts, delivering against annual and multi year revenue targets.
• Build and execute account plans that map buying centres, application priorities, Kubernetes roadmaps, and transformation programmes.
• Develop executive relationships across CIO, CTO, CISO, Head of Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, SRE, and Application leaders.
• Lead complex sales cycles from discovery through close, including security, risk, procurement, architecture review, and legal processes common in Telco.
• Position Portworx around measurable outcomes: application resilience, ransomware recovery, data protection, regulatory compliance, cloud portability, and modernisation at scale.
• Orchestrate account teams and partner ecosystems, including GSIs, cloud providers, and regional partners, to drive pipeline creation and deal execution.
• Run a rigorous, value based sales process tailored to cloud native software, with accurate forecasting and strong hygiene in Salesforce and forecasting tools.
• Partner with Customer Experience to expand adoption post sale, identify expansion triggers, and build customer advocacy within the Telco community.
• Stay ahead of competitive dynamics in Kubernetes data services, backup and recovery, and container storage, using insights to sharpen strategy and messaging.
• Represent Portworx in customer meetings and relevant industry events, with a field first mindset.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven enterprise software sales experience, with a track record of closing and expanding high value, multi stakeholder deals in large organisations.
• Demonstrable experience selling into Telco, with an understanding of procurement, governance, risk, and security requirements.
• Strong grasp of cloud native concepts and the Kubernetes ecosystem, plus the ability to credibly engage architects and platform teams.
• Experience selling to both technical and executive stakeholders, translating technical capabilities into business value and risk outcomes.
• Disciplined pipeline generation, qualification, deal management, and forecasting, with strong operational habits in SFDC.
• Comfort working in a matrixed environment, influencing cross functional teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication and programme management skills, with clear account planning and stakeholder alignment.
• A customer first mindset and a bias for action, with resilience and curiosity.