Account Executive – Key Accounts ( India)
About UptimeAI
UptimeAI is transforming industrial operations through its AI-driven platform that maximizes uptime, optimizes asset performance and enhances reliability across heavy industries. Our AI Reasoning Engine and AI Expert platform combine advanced data science, deep learning and decades of domain expertise to help plants predict, diagnose and resolve issues in real time. Backed by $14 million in Series A funding, UptimeAI is expanding across North America, the Middle East and Asia, with recognition and partnerships from Shell, Mitsubishi, ABB Motion and Frost & Sullivan.
Location: Bangalore, India
Reports to: VP-Sales
Department: Sales
Experience: 10–15 years in enterprise B2B sales
The opportunity
Own and grow UptimeAI's key enterprise customers in the Middle East or India. You will turn initial deployments at leading Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Power, Cement and Metals companies into multi-plant, multi-year partnerships, working hand in hand with Customer Success, Delivery and Product.
Key responsibilities
Grow revenue across UptimeAI's key enterprise accounts through expansion to new plants, assets and modules, and secure on-time, multi-year renewals.
Build and maintain account plans for every key account: org and relationship maps, whitespace, risks and a 12-month expansion path.
Build trusted relationships with CXOs, Plant Heads, and Reliability, Maintenance and Operations leaders.
Partner with Customer Success and Delivery to drive adoption and quantify value delivered (downtime avoided, maintenance cost, energy savings), then use it to justify expansion.
Open new business units and sister companies within the same industrial groups.
Lead commercial negotiations, pricing and contracting for expansions and renewals.
Run executive business reviews and secure customer references and case studies.
Keep an accurate pipeline and forecast in CRM; report weekly to the hiring manager.
Feed customer and market insight back to Product and Marketing.
Must have
10–15 years of enterprise B2B sales in industrial software, automation or enterprise SaaS, including 4+ years in key or strategic account management.
A technical foundation: an engineering degree, or early experience as a sales, application or pre-sales engineer.
Proven expansion and renewal results across named enterprise accounts.
Track record selling into Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Power, Cement or Metals in India or the GCC.
Senior relationships with plant, operations and executive stakeholders.
Strong negotiation, consultative and ROI-based selling skills.
Disciplined CRM pipeline and forecast management.
Preferred
Top-performer recognition such as President's Club.
Experience with APM, predictive maintenance, IIoT or industrial AI solutions.
Relationships at national energy companies in the GCC, or at large private conglomerates and PSUs in India; experience with tender-based procurement.
Experience in a Series A/B or high-growth company.
Success in the first 12 months
Account plans in place and reviewed for every key account within 60 days.
All key renewals secured on time.
Expansion into new plants or modules at a majority of key accounts.
At least one new business unit or sister company opened within an existing group.
Two referenceable customers in the region and one published case study.
Key success metrics
Expansion ARR · Net revenue retention · Gross renewal rate · New business units opened · Pipeline coverage · Forecast accuracy · Executive sponsor engagement · Customer references
Why join UptimeAI
Own some of UptimeAI's most strategic relationships in the Middle East or India, with direct access to Sales leadership and a product that delivers measurable results for the region's largest industrial companies.
