How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

• Net New ARR Generation: Achieving annual quota targets specifically from Scaled customers..
• Value Realization (Expansion): Identifying and securing a minimum of $1.5M in annual expansion opportunities within existing accounts.
• Stakeholder Breadth: Documented engagement and multi-threading across at least four distinct business units (e.g., Upstream, Downstream, Renewables, IT) per global account.
• Forecast Accuracy: Maintaining +/- 10% variance on monthly and quarterly forecasts through rigorous MEDDPICC discipline.

• Strategic Expansion Roadmap: Develop and execute comprehensive account plans that drive cross-functional use-case adoption and deliver incremental business value. Establish clear methodologies to scale existing portfolios and achieve defined annual ARR growth targets.
• Ecosystem Orchestration: Establish a repeatable "Account War Room" cadence involving Field Engineering and Product to resolve technical "Build vs. Buy" roadblocks.
• C-Level Advocacy: Convert at least two skeptical C-suite stakeholders (e.g., VP of Operations or CFO) into active "Champions" who will provide external references.
• Competitive Displacement: Execute a successful "Value-Centric Defense" to proactively nullify a major incumbent or niche competitor foothold.

• Global Account Orchestration: Lead the "Cognite Village"—including Field Engineering, Product, and Delivery—to execute multi-site rollouts and enterprisewide adoption.
• Complex Value Engineering: Identify and quantify unrealized value pools (e.g., $17M+ annual site savings) to transition accounts from pilots to multi-year enterprise agreements.
• Political & Strategic Navigation: Masterfully navigate global reorganizations and mergers within client organizations, ensuring continuity and growth even when original champions exit.

Value-Centric Defense: Proactively nullify high-tier competitors by positioning Cognite’s Open Interoperability and superior multimodal industrial data handling.

• Industrial Builder DNA: 15+ years of experience closing multi-million dollar deals in industrial software, with a proven track record of scaling accounts to $22M+ ARR.
• Comfort with Complexity: Proven ability to navigate convoluted global organizational structures and extremely complex technical OT/IT environments.
• Strategic Business Acumen: Fluently translates digital transformation into EBITDA improvement and Cash Flow acceleration.

 

 

 

Learn more about us

 

 

 

• Impact 2025
• Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot
• We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

 

 

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

Senior Account Manager, Oil & Gas, Abu Dhabi

About Cognite and our strategic partnerships

Cognite is a global leader in industrial software with our Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, at the core. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms. 

To further strengthen Cognite's impact we are looking to hire a seasoned Account Manager who thrives enabling large organizations C-level management creating greater impact through technology. 

“Together, we will make vast quantities of data easily available for customers to use and innovate at scale quickly, to increase production, improve financial performance, and achieve sustainability goals.”

Senior Account Manager is responsible for expansion of key accounts and helping our new customers realize the value of our products, including the execution of their roadmap, the achievement of their business goals, and the adoption of our product to drive greater ROI and satisfaction.  

As a Senior Account Manager, you will nurture long-term relationships with your portfolio of assigned customers; connect with key business executives and IT stakeholders; and develop a deep understanding of their business requirements, goals, and how they are using Cognite to meet their needs. Senior Account Manager is responsible for our most valuable customers, usually managing 1-2 key accounts.

This role reports to the VP of MENA region and will work closely with Sales and Account Management teams.

As our Senior Account Manager, your key responsibilities will be

• Managing the relationship with Cognite’s most valuable customers;
• Developing a trusted advisor relationship with key stakeholders and executive sponsors;
• Ensuring all Cognite activities are closely aligned with the customer's business case and business strategy, allowing them to realize the full potential of Cognite’s products;
• Driving expansions and securing renewals for your assigned accounts;
• Developing value roadmaps and account plans, charting a path to the customer’s desired outcome with Cognite software, leveraging a comprehensive understanding of Cognite's products, identifying expansion opportunities for account managers to close;
• Working with the Sales organization to close upsell/cross sell opportunities to expand customer lifetime value
• Communicating the product roadmap to customers and ensuring it meets the customer’s needs; 
• Serving as the “voice of the customer to both product management and customer community management;
• Collaborate with Field Marketing/Account Development team to ensure customer engagement with newsletters, webinars, and events;
• Identifying and assessing renewal risks for customers’ license subscriptions and collaborate with internal teams to ameliorate; and
• Collaborate with the ecosystem of Cognite partners to maximize value generation

We believe most of these should match your experience

• 5+ years experience and a demonstrable track record in leading customer engagements as an Account manager or related role 
• A rich understanding of Account management methodologies and practices including (but not limited to) segmentation, customer journey, and customer health scoring; 
• Commercial experience in renewals and upselling;
• Track record of expanding complex enterprise deals
• SaaS, Data Platforms and Oil & Gas background
• Fluent in written and spoken English is required. Verbal skills in Arabic are an advantage.
• Proven experience of selling at C-Level both in business and IT
• Experience of collaborating together with channel partners
• Experience working at a high-growth scale-up organization;
• Familiarity with Salesforce, MEDDPICC, and Clari

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀

Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! We were also recognized by Frost & Sullivan who named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇 Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Receive competitive salary and benefits, including a pension plan, insurance, parental benefits, and much more.
• Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
  
  

Excited about our opportunity?

Join us in making tangible and enduring impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing young software companies on the planet.

 

 

 

Learn more about us

 

 

 

• Impact 2025
• Cognite's Industrial AI: Moonshot
• We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

 

 

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.