Full-Time

Enterprise Account Executive

Posted on 10/4/2025

KCF Technologies

KCF Technologies

201-500 employees

Machine health optimization for industrial assets

No salary listed

Indianapolis, IN, USA

In Person

Category
Sales & Account Management (2)
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Requirements
  • Technology sales at large organizations: 5–8+ years in B2B technology (SaaS/IIoT/industrial tech/automation) selling into large enterprises, owning multi-site rollouts, renewals, and multi-year total contract value.
Responsibilities
  • Value and solution selling to large enterprises; quantify impact for C-Suite and senior leaders and communicate wins back to site users and champions.
  • Executive selling and multi-threading across Operations/Maintenance/Reliability, Information Technology/Operations Technology, Finance, Procurement and site leadership; comfort from the plant floor to the boardroom.
  • Partner with Business Development Representatives to open new sites within existing logos; coordinate campaigns, outreach, and executive access aligned to the account plan.
  • Work with Customer Success Managers to deeply understand the business problems we’re solving, shape success criteria, document value created (savings, avoided downtime, asset life), and turn outcomes into executive-ready narratives.
  • Manage renewals in partnership with Customer Success Managers - own the commercial strategy, timing, and negotiation to deliver greater than or equal to 110% Net Revenue Retention within your book.
  • Program design and rollout: Convert pilots/single sites into 3 to 4 wave enterprise programs with enablement plans, adoption KPIs, QBRs, and steering committees.
  • Commercial architecture: Lead Master Service Agreements/S statements of work/Service Level Agreements, pricing frameworks, and multi-year ramps; partner with Legal/Finance/Sales Leadership through redlines to signature.
  • Whitespace planning: Build named account plans identifying expansion paths by site/line/asset class; maintain a visible 2 to 3× expansion pipeline within your accounts.
  • Risk and escalation management: Anticipate blockers (Information Technology security, standards committees, procurement cycles), create mitigation plans, and lead crisp executive escalations.
  • Operational excellence: Customer Relationship Management hygiene and mutual action plans; forecast expansions greater than or equal to $250k total contract value with plus or minus 10% accuracy; run tight Quarterly Business Reviews and roadmap sessions.
Desired Qualifications
  • PdM/machine health, condition monitoring, or industrial automation background; CMMS/EAM familiarity; sector exposure (Automotive, Metals, Pulp & Paper, Midstream, Building Materials); rotating equipment basics (motors, pumps, fans, gearboxes, compressors)

KCF Technologies provides machine health automation to improve the safety and efficiency of industrial operations like oil and gas production. The company uses wireless sensors to monitor equipment and detect faults, providing data that helps operators prevent expensive line stoppages and extend the life of their machinery by at least 30%. Unlike many competitors, KCF Technologies specializes in monitoring intermittently operating assets and high-volume hydraulic fracturing stages that are traditionally difficult to track. The company's goal is to eliminate industrial waste and downtime while promoting sustainable, green business practices.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

State College, Pennsylvania

Founded

2000

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • FUCHS partnership addresses 60% of bearing failures via lubrication diagnostics integration.
  • Piezo Sensing detects Stage 1 bearing faults across paper, automotive, metals, mining sectors.
  • Partner companies report unplanned downtime reductions exceeding 50% with SMARTdiagnostics adoption.

What critics are saying

  • Shale fracking slowdown erodes core oil and gas revenue base by 70-85% probability.
  • Augury's superior AI diagnostics capture predictive maintenance market share from automotive, mining.
  • US IIoT regulations mandate open protocols by 2027, rendering proprietary SMARTdiagnostics incompatible.

What makes KCF Technologies unique

  • Proprietary wireless protocol delivers 10x more data per joule energy versus competitors.
  • Integrated hardware, software, and expert services solve root causes, not just predict failures.
  • SMARTdiagnostics platform analyzes 60 billion machine health measurements with advanced AI and ML.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Phone/Internet Stipend

Wellness Program

Company News

Design Engineering
Oct 23rd, 2025
FUCHS and KCF Technologies partner to tackle machine downtime with AI and smart lubrication

FUCHS and KCF Technologies partner to tackle machine downtime with AI and smart lubrication. Strategic alliance offers engineers and industrial operators a data-driven edge in predictive maintenance. In a game-changing move when it comes to industrial reliability, FUCHS Lubricants Co. - the world's largest independent lubricant supplier - recently partnered with KCF Technologies - a leader in machine health optimization. The partnership combines cutting-edge AI-driven monitoring with advanced lubrication science to help design engineers, machine builders and OEMs proactively prevent machine failure and eliminate unplanned downtime. Combining expertise. It's also a partnership that directly integrates FUCHS' high-performance lubrication expertise with KCF's Machine Health Platform, creating a unified solution that offers real-time lubrication diagnostics, vibration monitoring and customized maintenance recommendations. And the goal driving the collaboration? To empower industrial operators to move from reactive to predictive maintenance strategies - a move that will result in maximized uptime, reduced costs and extended equipment life. In fact, according to Kevin Vincent, Senior Vice President of KCF Technologies, it's a partnership between the two leaders that focuses purely on the end user - the operator. "Historically, coordinating analysis of lubrication related failures put the onus entirely on the customer to coordinate between their reliability teams, lubrication experts and monitoring solution providers," he says. "Our partnership aims to create a higher level of service that will allow for the collaboration of subject matter experts from each key member of the resolution team reducing the time to resolution and allowing the customer to focus on higher level problem solving, freeing up time for manufacturers to focus on what matters." Addressing issues head-on. With over 60 per cent of bearing failures attributed to lubrication issues, the alliance between FUCHS and KCF Technologies tackles a key issue head-on. By combining KCF's SMARTdiagnostics platform, which uses real-time analytics and machine learning to continuously monitor asset health, with FUCHS' application-specific lubricants, customers receive validated, data-informed guidance tailored to their unique operating conditions. A recent pilot project with a global heavy-haul railcar manufacturer illustrates the potential: using KCF's platform, early signs of lubricant degradation were detected in a critical gearbox. In response, FUCHS' team provided expert evaluation and product adjustments, preventing a costly failure and enabling a shift to a proactive maintenance model built on continuous monitoring. And after all, says Dr. Jeremy Frank, CEO of KCF Technologies, avoiding lost time is what it's all about. "At KCF, our mission is to eliminate unplanned downtime across industry," he asserts. "And we can't do that without addressing lubrication head-on. This partnership with FUCHS unites world-class lubrication services with our real-time machine health technology to empower manufacturers to act earlier, smarter and with greater confidence than ever before." For design engineers and machine builders, the partnership signals a new era in equipment reliability - one in which predictive analytics and smart lubrication converge to drive performance, protect assets and significantly reduce total cost of ownership.

PR Newswire
Mar 12th, 2024
Kcf Technologies Unveils Piezo Sensing: A Revolutionary Machine Health Solution For Low And High-Speed Machines

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KCF Technologies, a leader in machine health solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its latest innovation, Piezo Sensing, as part of its SMARTsensing suite of hardware products. This new offering revolutionizes machine health monitoring by providing unmatched precision and reliability across a vast spectrum of industrial applications.Unparalleled Precision in Machine Health MonitoringPiezo Sensing leverages state-of-the-art technology to deliver high-resolution data with exceptional fidelity, utilizing advanced high-frequency sampling to offer early detection of common fault types. This unprecedented level of detail allows for proactive maintenance decisions, drastically reducing downtime and maintenance costs, and significantly improving operational efficiency and safety compliance.Adaptable Across a Range of IndustriesThe adaptability of Piezo Sensing is showcased in its wide array of industry use cases. It is designed to seamlessly integrate with critical equipment in various sectors, including General Industry, Paper, Automotive, Metals, Mining, Glass, and Energy, addressing the unique challenges each sector faces. From Paper Machines to turbines, and from electric arc furnaces to ball mill pinions, Piezo Sensing provides continuous, high-quality monitoring even in the most demanding environments.Innovative Features for Maximum PerformanceEnhanced Bearing Fault Detection with Enveloping: High-frequency data capture isolates and accentuates the minutest defects in machinery, ensuring early intervention. With Full Spectrum readings every hour, Piezo Sensing enables the detection of Stage 1 bearing faults

Smart Manufacturing Today
Feb 2nd, 2023
Newswire – Smart Manufacturing Today

"KCF Technologies is excited to partner with ANDRITZ to amplify the value brought from both companies' offerings.

PEI Group
Aug 6th, 2022
Graham Partners Group invests in machine health optimization firm KCF

Harris Williams advised KCF on the deal.

BioSpace
Jul 20th, 2022
Kcf Technologies Accelerates Machine Health Platform With New Investors

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health optimization technology and services, announced strategic investments through its first growth capital round. The benefit to the capital raised will help KCF scale faster with technology development, sustain rapid growth, and continue to push industry beyond predictive maintenance with a full machine health platform. Over the last two decades, KCF has organically grown a global portfolio of 128 manufacturing companies. In the first half of 2022, KCF has expanded the full stack offering of hardware, software, and services into 84 new plant and shop locations on the heels of new product and feature releases. Momentum from this year's release of KCF's all-new SMARTdiagnostics 4.0 machine health platform, coupled with hardware advancements from the release of an all-new Base Station in early 2022, KCF's tech platform continues to accelerate with enhancements and adoption across manufacturers worldwide. New features for 2022 that are advancing adoption of the machine health platform include Sensor AI and MachineIQ. SensorAI consistently monitors data to search for deviations and sudden changes that drive the need for immediate action on plants critical assets. MachineIQ classifies and makes recommendations to solve issues, facilitating work flows to schedule maintenance work through Computer Maintenance Management System integrations. KCF's proprietary software, SMARTdiagnostics, leverages a library of machine data, analytics, and condition monitoring expertise acquired over two decades. SMARTdiagnostics continues to develop on a foundation of 200,000 collective years of machine health and over 60 billion machine health measurements to further advance offerings powered by advanced analytics, Machine Learning, and AI. The convergence of industry leading machine health technology and a high-touch engineering team that has a deep understanding of asset performance has delivered over $2.7 billion dollars in customer savings to date. Built on a foundation to permanently solve complex asset problems, KCF's integrated platform serves critical global manufacturers in various industrial verticals, including pharmaceutical, food & beverage, power generation, forest products, oil & gas, and automotive. "For the last 20 years we have been fortunate for our long-standing relationships with cutting-edge manufacturers around the world. Today, we are thrilled to bring in like-minded partners to accelerate our tech stack and scale the value even faster." – Dr. Jeremy Frank, CEO of KCF Technologies Two partners in the Series A funding, Graham Partners and RiverBay Capital, benefit KCF with their focused industry knowledge in technology, advanced manufacturing, and engineering resources. About KCF Technologies: KCF is on a mission to permanently solve the complex asset problems that have plagued industry. Our team develops technology and services that empower industrial businesses to eliminate unplanned downtime, optimize their operations, and outpace their competition. For more information on SMARTdiagnostics 4.0, visit www.kcftech.com. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kcf-technologies-accelerates-machine-health-platform-with-new-investors-301590023.html SOURCE KCF Technologies, Inc

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