Full-Time

Strategic Enterprise Account Executive

Posted on 8/5/2025

Qlik

Qlik

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloud-based data integration and analytics platform

No salary listed

Sydney NSW, Australia

In Person

Role located in Sydney, Australia (ANZ). No explicit remote option; office-based.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Requirements
  • At least 10 years of successful sales experience in SaaS enterprise software, with expertise in managing complex sales cycles.
  • Being a self-starter capable of leading complex sales cycles within a matrixed organization.
  • Track record of exceeding quotas, selling to senior decision-makers, with a good network of existing senior executive contacts within enterprises in the respective territory and accounts.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to create compelling proposals.
  • Experience working with global and local partners and resellers to optimise customer engagement and maximize revenue in assigned accounts.
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms and data ecosystems (such as AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, etc), including Data Visualization, and Data Integration markets.
  • Experience and understanding of the Big Data, Data Integration, and Data Analytics markets, including knowledge of Data Warehousing, Databases, and Business Intelligence software products.
Responsibilities
  • Strategic leadership:Own and grow a portfolio of strategicenterprise accounts across ANZ, where you will develop and execute account plans to drive adoption and expansion, leveraging the Qlik ecosystem.
  • Customer-Centric Approach: Engage customers at a CxO level, including business leaders, orchestrating activities to ensure ongoing relationships, customer success, and strong alignment with Qlik's value proposition.
  • Market Insight: Leverage your knowledge in Cloud, Data Transformation and Analyticsto navigate the dynamic landscape.
  • Collaborative Sales: Lead complex sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders and partners.
  • Account Development: Develop and execute account plans, with a focus on key enterprise accounts, ensuring a strategic approach to customer engagement.
  • Customer Acquisition: Identify and acquire new customers, while upselling and cross-selling to the existing customer base.
  • Collaborative Partnerships: Assist and leverage the broad partner eco-system, including resellers in the sales cycles
  • Contract Management: Manage contract negotiations to closure, ensuring a smooth and effective process.
  • Pipeline Management: Build and sustain a robust pipeline for the assigned territory or segment.
  • Customer Success: Drive customer success by deeply understanding their business and effectively promoting the Qlik value proposition.
  • C-Level Engagement: Approach customers at a CxO level, orchestrating key activities around prospects or clients.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in verticals such as Public Sector, Utilities and/or Financial servicespreferred.

Qlik provides a cloud-based data integration and analytics platform that helps businesses uncover insights and take timely actions. It connects data from multiple sources in real time and enables AI-driven analytics and collaborative intelligence, so teams can work together on data-driven decisions. The product lives in the cloud and is delivered via subscription, with customers ranging from large enterprises in healthcare, retail, and finance. What sets Qlik apart is its end-to-end platform for real-time data integration and analytics designed for collaboration across departments, rather than isolated tools. Its goal is to turn raw data into actionable insights that improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and drive innovation.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$3.1B

Headquarters

Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania

Founded

1993

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What believers are saying

  • Snowflake integration expands access to Cortex AI workflows.
  • Canada Cloud Region opens regulated public-sector and financial-services sales.
  • Saugata Saha brings enterprise data leadership and AI transformation experience.

What critics are saying

  • Snowflake may absorb more of Qlik's analytics value chain.
  • CCCS authorization delays can slow Canadian government adoption.
  • Open MCP standards lower switching costs for customers and competitors.

What makes Qlik unique

  • Talend gives Qlik end-to-end integration, quality, and governance.
  • Qlik pairs analytics with agentic workflows and governed data products.
  • Sovereign cloud regions address residency-sensitive enterprise and public-sector buyers.

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Enterprise IT World MEA
Jun 2nd, 2026
Qlik appoints Saugata Saha as new Chief Executive Officer.

Qlik appoints Saugata Saha as new Chief Executive Officer. Former S&P Global executive to lead next phase of growth, innovation, and AI-driven transformation at enterprise data leader Qlik has announced the appointment of Saugata Saha as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 31, 2026. Saha will be based in New York and succeeds Mike Capone, who is stepping down after leading the company for eight years. The leadership transition comes as Qlik continues to strengthen its position in the enterprise data, analytics, and artificial intelligence market, serving more than 30,000 customers globally, including over 75% of Fortune 500 companies. Saha joins Qlik from S&P Global, where he most recently served as President of S&P Global Market Intelligence and Chief Enterprise Data Officer. During his tenure, he led major business transformations across the company's data and intelligence operations, driving revenue growth, operational efficiency, and the adoption of AI-powered technologies. At S&P Global, Saha oversaw both the Energy and Market Intelligence divisions and played a key role in advancing enterprise-wide data strategies, AI adoption, and data interoperability initiatives. His experience in building and scaling large-scale data platforms is expected to support Qlik's ambitions in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. "Qlik has built something rare: the ability to turn fragmented data into real outcomes at scale in the AI era," said Saugata Saha. "The defining challenge in Enterprise AI is making data trusted, connected, and adaptable enough to work across any environment. I look forward to partnering with the team and our customers to advance that mission." "The defining challenge in Enterprise AI is making data trusted, connected, and adaptable enough to work across any environment. That is where Qlik is uniquely positioned to enable customers to move from pilots to real business impact." - Saugata Saha, Incoming President and CEO, Qlik Qlik's Board of Directors expressed confidence that Saha's deep expertise in enterprise data and AI will help accelerate the company's next phase of innovation and market expansion. Mike Lipps, Chairman of Qlik's Board and Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo, said Saha brings the leadership and platform experience needed to drive future growth while building on the strong foundation established under Capone's leadership. Seth Boro, Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo, highlighted Saha's track record in developing AI-driven data and intelligence platforms, noting that enterprises increasingly rely on trusted data foundations as agentic AI reshapes business operations. Qlik has emerged as a leading provider of data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI solutions. The company is recognized as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader across data integration, augmented data quality, and analytics and business intelligence categories. With Saha at the helm, Qlik aims to further strengthen its role in helping enterprises transform trusted data into actionable intelligence, enabling organizations to scale AI initiatives, improve decision-making, and drive measurable business outcomes.

The Associated Press
Apr 14th, 2026
Qlik launches Trust Score and Data Product Agent to operationalise AI governance

Qlik has announced expanded trust and governance capabilities for AI centred on data products and operational controls. The company is introducing tools to help teams monitor and govern data products that feed analytics and AI workflows. Key features include Data Product Agent for creating and managing data products using natural language, Qlik Trust Score to evaluate data products across accuracy and timeliness, and data contracts defining operational expectations. The release also adds service-level objectives, anomaly detection and AI-enabled stewardship capabilities. The announcement came at Qlik Connect 2026 in Kissimmee, Florida. CEO Mike Capone stated that as AI moves from answers into decisions, data products require the same accountability as production assets. Qlik is used by 75% of Fortune 500 companies.

The Associated Press
Apr 14th, 2026
Qlik launches agentic AI tools to speed up data engineering workflows

Qlik has announced new agentic execution capabilities for data engineering, designed to help teams create and deliver AI-ready data faster. The company introduced declarative pipelines using natural language, an AI Assistant for Talend Studio, real-time routing for agentic processes, and Open Lakehouse Streaming for unified event data. The tools aim to reduce manual pipeline work and help data teams move towards an agent-assisted model. Qlik CEO Mike Capone said data engineering has become critical as AI demand rises, with companies struggling to deliver trusted data rather than imagining use cases. The announcement was made at Qlik Connect 2026 in Florida. Qlik, used by 75% of the Fortune 500, is expanding its platform to support AI workloads whilst maintaining data quality and control.

MarTech360
Apr 14th, 2026
Qlik and ServiceNow join forces to strengthen ai-driven enterprise workflows.

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The Associated Press
Apr 13th, 2026
Qlik partners with ServiceNow to embed trusted enterprise data into AI-powered workflows

Qlik has partnered with ServiceNow to integrate trusted enterprise data into AI-powered workflows and decision-making processes. The collaboration combines ServiceNow's Workflow Data Fabric with Qlik's analytics engine to deliver richer context from ERP, CRM, supply chain and other enterprise systems. The partnership introduces Qlik metadata collectors for ServiceNow Data Catalog, improving data discovery, lineage visibility and governance. Qlik's analytics engine will send insights directly into ServiceNow workflows and AI agents, enabling better decision-making through cross-system relationships and operational context. The announcement was made at Qlik Connect 2026 in Florida. Qlik, used by 75% of Fortune 500 companies, aims to help enterprises scale AI responsibly whilst maintaining data governance and control across operations.

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