Account Executive, VAST Data
Western Canada
AI operating system
Open for applications
AI operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower intelligent agents to store, think, communicate, and act.
Role
Who you are
- Consistent track record of exceeding quota and driving referenceable business with large strategic customers
- A history of developing selling regions from the ground up, with little resources
- Passion for developing account expansion strategies and the value of post-sales customer success
- Excellent time management and communication skills
- Desire to drive change and evangelize new technologies in a way that resonates with customers
- Minimum of 7 years direct Enterprise selling experience
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment experience is key, a mix of large company and startup experience
- The ability to speak with customers and partners at both a business-level and technical-level
- Knowledge of the storage industry specifically: NFS, Object Storage and Enterprise Computing architectures
- Competitive attitude and strong work ethic with the ability to enthusiastically represent the company
- Proficient with Salesforce.com and Microsoft Office
What the job involves
- Develop business across a mix of enterprise level customers across the spectrum
- Generate revenue and work closely with a network of Channel Partners to successfully sell the VAST Data offering
- Manage the sales process to align with customer buying cycles
- Manage customer relationships from first meeting through (optional) proof of concept as well as after the sale to enable opportunities to expand the VAST Data footprint
- Develop and present proposals to customers with information that demonstrates the ability of the VAST solution to meet customers’ business objectives and justify the sale
- Prospect, penetrate large accounts, reaching decision-makers, and closing business
Our take
VAST Data is building what you might call the plumbing for the AI era - a purpose-built data platform that unifies storage, compute, and data services in a single, scalable system. With its disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture, it allows companies to scale their storage independently from compute, meaning AI workloads can grow without behind held back by infrastructure bottlenecks. And their platform delivers flash-speed performance, multi-protocol access, and enterprsie-grade reliability, all while keeping costs reasonable.
This architecture is especially relevant now and the company has recently partnered with GMI CLoud as a key data infrastructure provider for GMI's ambitious new "AI factory" in Taiwan. The data centre is expected to house 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUS and will lean on VAST's exabyte-scale storage to handle data for model training, inference, and real-time processing.
On top of this, VAST has secured some major partnerships and deals that really position it strongly for the future of AI infrastructure. In November 2025, it struck a $1.17B agreement with CoreWeave, making VASt the primary data foundation for their GPU cloud. It also expanded its collaboration with Google CLoud to offer its AI Operating System as a fully managed service, allowsing global data access across on-prem and cloud environments using VAST DataSpace. These moves suggest VAST isn't just keeping up with AI demand but shaping the infrastructure that will power the next generation of large-scale, distributed intelligent systems.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$118m
SERIES E
May 2021
$83m
SERIES D
Total funding: $381m
Leadership
Renen Hallak
(Co-Founder & CEO)BA and an MSc in Computer Science. Prior to co-founding VAST, they led the architecture and development of an all flash array at XtremIO as VP of R&D.
Shachar Fienblit
(Co-FOunder & Chief R&D Officer)BSC in Computer Software Engineering. Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the VP of Engineering at Kaminario before being promoted to CTO.
Jeff Denworth
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the SVP of Marketing at CTERA Networks and DDN Storage.
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