Alliance Sales Executive, Associate Director - Databricks - Financial Services

About the role

EY’s Sales & Strategic Pursuits (S&SP) function unites sales leadership, sector insight, technology expertise, and solution depth to drive market-leading growth. As EY’s growth catalyst, S&SP shapes and executes integrated go-to-market strategies across priority accounts, industry sectors, and strategic alliances—delivering differentiated value through a deeply client-centric culture.

Responsibilities

• Sales Origination
• Relentlessly originate net-new pipeline within Financial Services by identifying unmet needs, emerging priorities, and transformation opportunities
• Drive revenue across three core channels:
• Direct client origination
• Databricks field-led co-sell motions
• EY account team-led pursuits
• Lead early-stage opportunity identification and qualification, independently shaping pursuits from signal detection through deal maturation
• Databricks Alliance Leadership
• Act as a trusted partner to Databricks Financial Services field teams, evangelizing for EY by building credibility and mindshare across account executives, solution architects and sales leadership
• Evangelize and position EY’s Databricks-powered offerings and bespoke solutions to meet client needs and market demand
• Shape joint go-to-market motions and influence Databricks investment toward EY-led pursuits
• Financial Services Industry Impact
• Demonstrate deep understanding of banking, capital markets, insurance, and wealth/asset management organizations’ most pressing issues, risk constraints, policy drivers, and regulatory impacts
• Translate Databricks capabilities into outcomes that resonate with Financial Services executives, including resiliency/availability, regulatory compliance and trust, fraud and financial crime detection, enterprise data modernization, cybersecurity, and AI-driven risk management and growth
• Build executive relationships with clients to position EY as a strategic transformation partner
• AI-Enabled Selling & Innovation
• Infuse AI into the full sales lifecycle, including:
• Account and opportunity analytics
• Intelligent prospecting and prioritization
• Pattern recognition across pipeline and buying signals
• AI-supported storytelling, proposal shaping, and pursuit orchestration
• Integrating and leveraging digital sales agents across the entire sales lifecycle
• Champion AI-enabled EY and Databricks solutions with credibility, demonstrating both technical fluency and business impact
• Serve as a role model for modern, AI-forward sales execution, helping elevate sales effectiveness across teams
• Market Leadership & Collaboration
• Deep sector and Databricks technology expertise, with the ability to translate that knowledge into enterprise-scale transformations that deliver measurable business outcomes
• Be the face of EY’s Databricks Alliance within EY’s Financial Services business and the face of EY to Databricks FINS teams
• This role requires an individual who can envision and activate a multi-alliance ecosystem, helping position EY as the firm that orchestrates partners, platforms and services to unlock new growth and transformation opportunities for clients
• Orchestrate cross-service line and cross-functional teams to bring the best of EY to pursuit opportunities
• Coach and influence account teams and peers through active leadership in the market—not authority alone

Qualifications

• 10+ years of quota-carrying sales experience in professional services, technology, and/or enterprise solutions
• Demonstrated success as a net-new business hunter, not solely an account or alliance manager
• Direct experience & success selling to financial services clients and deep expertise in the key issues and opportunities facing financial services clients
• Strong Databricks ecosystem experience, including co-sell and channel-led motions
• Deep knowledge of the Databricks platform
• Experience with the broader Databricks partner ecosystem and how Databricks fits into a multi-vendor landscape
• Prior experience selling at a Big Four firm or large global systems integrator
• Exceptional client relationship management and executive communication skills
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical background or delivery/program leadership experience
• Experience selling large, complex, multi-stakeholder transformation programs
• Strong coaching and mentoring capability
• Proven team-selling experience across alliances and solution teams
• Willingness to travel up to 50%

Benefits

To qualify, you must have:

• 10+ years of quota-carrying sales experience in professional services, technology, and/or enterprise solutions
• Demonstrated success as a net-new business hunter, not solely an account or alliance manager
• Direct experience & success selling to financial services clients and deep expertise in the key issues and opportunities facing financial services clients
• Strong Databricks ecosystem experience, including co-sell and channel-led motions
• Deep knowledge of the Databricks platform
• Experience with the broader Databricks partner ecosystem and how Databricks fits into a multi-vendor landscape
• Prior experience selling at a Big Four firm or large global systems integrator
• Exceptional client relationship management and executive communication skills
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)

To be considered for this role, you should ideally have:

• A technical background or delivery/program leadership experience
• Experience selling large, complex, multi-stakeholder transformation programs
• Strong coaching and mentoring capability
• Proven team-selling experience across alliances and solution teams
• A willingness to travel up to 50%

Application Instructions

At EY, we accept applications on an ongoing basis. Please apply today.