Full-Time

Account Executive

Updated on 8/21/2026

TigerGraph

TigerGraph

51-200 employees

Graph database platform for analytics

Compensation Overview

$150k - $160k/yr

Milpitas, CA, USA

In Person

Travel to clients is required.

Bachelor's

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Machine Learning
CRM

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Requirements
  • A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent is required.
  • At least 15 years of enterprise software sales experience is required.
  • Experience formulating and selling large contracts is required.
  • The candidate must understand and be able to sell enterprise and software-as-a-service contracts from lead generation through closed sale.
  • The candidate must have a track record of closing sales with companies with revenue of $500 million or more.
  • Experience selling to C-suite executives is required.
  • Experience selling into financial institutions is required.
  • The candidate must consistently overachieve sales goals in a large geographic territory.
  • The candidate must be willing to travel to clients to develop and support customers.
  • The candidate must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • The candidate must demonstrate entrepreneurial ability, a strong work ethic, and resourcefulness.
  • The candidate must be coachable and creative.
  • The candidate must have high emotional intelligence.
  • The candidate must be able to understand complex client ecosystems and successfully navigate within those systems.
  • The candidate must be committed to continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
  • Define and execute sales plans for assigned accounts and territory.
  • Meet and exceed quota through prospecting, qualifying, managing, and closing sales opportunities within assigned accounts and territory.
  • Develop account plans for large assigned accounts.
  • Manage renewals in existing assigned accounts.
  • Understand the competitive market and industry trends.
  • Manage and track customer information in the TigerGraph customer relationship management system.
  • Provide activity forecasts and regular pipeline reporting in sales meetings and through the customer relationship management system.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
  • Advanced degrees and/or technical expertise are valued.
  • Understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and database- and cloud-based solutions is a plus.

TigerGraph provides a graph database and analytics platform for businesses. It stores data as nodes, edges, and properties in a graph structure, enabling semantic queries and real-time analysis of complex datasets. The product works by indexing and traversing graph relationships to quickly reveal connections across large data volumes, supporting scalable performance and cost efficiency. The company differentiates itself from competitors through its focus on graph-powered analytics and the ability to reduce infrastructure operating costs, enable cross-team collaboration, and react to changes in real time, as evidenced by customer outcomes like a significant cost reduction for Intuit. TigerGraph's goal is to help organizations manage and analyze interconnected data more efficiently, turning complex relationships into actionable insights across industries such as healthcare, insurance, and technology.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$194.2M

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

2012

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What believers are saying

  • Cuadrilla Capital’s July 15, 2025 investment funds R&D, support, and go-to-market expansion.
  • TigerGraph’s hybrid search launch strengthens AI accuracy for fraud, AML, and knowledge graphs.
  • Community Edition expansion lowers adoption friction and feeds future enterprise conversions.

What critics are saying

  • Neo4j dominates GraphRAG ecosystems, pressuring TigerGraph’s adoption in 2025-2026.
  • TigerGraph’s steep GSQL learning curve limits developer pull versus Neo4j and ArangoDB.
  • If enterprise AI budgets shift to general-purpose data stacks, TigerGraph becomes a niche tool.

What makes TigerGraph unique

  • TigerGraph’s July 2025 Cuadrilla investment backed enterprise graph AI infrastructure and deep-link analytics.
  • TigerGraph still wins on billion-edge, multi-hop analytical workloads and hybrid graph-vector search.
  • TigerGraph’s CoPilot and QueryAI target business users with natural-language fraud and customer queries.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-5%
Decatur Daily Democrat
Jul 17th, 2025
News

TigerGraph Accelerates Enterprise AI Infrastructure Innovation with Strategic Investment from Cuadrilla Capital

Decatur Daily Democrat
Jul 15th, 2025
TigerGraph Gains Strategic Investment from Cuadrilla

TigerGraph announced a strategic investment from Cuadrilla Capital to enhance its enterprise AI infrastructure and graph database technologies. This investment will support TigerGraph's growth in areas like fraud detection, customer 360 initiatives, and supply chain management. The partnership aims to meet the rising demand for real-time data insights. Cuadrilla Capital, with over $500 million in assets, sees significant growth potential in TigerGraph's solutions for complex business challenges.

Financial Post
Jul 15th, 2025
TigerGraph Accelerates Enterprise AI Infrastructure Innovation with Strategic Investment from Cuadrilla Capital

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - TigerGraph, the leading provider of enterprise graph database and AI infrastructure solutions, today announced a strategic investment from Cuadrilla Capital.

KMWorld
Mar 5th, 2025
TigerGraph offers enhanced hybrid search with its graph database to power AI at scale

Simultaneously, TigerGraph is releasing a Community Edition of its graph database that offers significant compute power and storage capacity, the company said.

Tabor Communications Inc.
Mar 4th, 2025
TigerGraph Unveils Hybrid Search to Enhance AI Accuracy and Efficiency

TigerGraph, an enterprise AI infrastructure and graph database company, has further solidified its position in the AI infrastructure and graph database market with the launch of its next-gen hybrid solution that integrates vector search and graph search into a single platform.