Sahana Sreeprakash

Sales Executive

New York, New York, United States9 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Consistently exceeded sales quotas with a $1M+ pipeline.
Generated $1.5M+ in new ARR through strategic expansions.
Founded a successful freelance photography and design business.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales and consulting expert with a strong creative background.

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Skills

Core Skills

SalesAccount ManagementStrategyData AnalysisMarket ResearchPhotographyWeb DesignUser Experience Design (ued)TeachingCommunication

Other Skills

Customer SatisfactionSales & MarketingNegotiationPresentation SkillsDue DiligenceEvent PhotographyDigital PhotographyVisual ArtsMicrosoft ExcelAgile Web DevelopmentUser Interface DesignWritingForeign LanguagesSewingDesign

Experience

9 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Senior Account Executive, Digital Native

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Account Executive, Digital Native

Mar 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

Managed full-cycle sales (acquisition to close and renewal) for 25+ mid-market and high-growth startup accounts, consistently exceeding quota (180% of target in 2025) with a $1M+ pipeline across 3-6 month cycles.
Generated $1.5M+ in new ARR through consultative selling and strategic expansions of Confluent's cloud-native data streaming platform (Kafka, Flink, connectors, governance, security).
Conducted comprehensive discovery using MEDDPICC to qualify technical fit, budget authority, and decision timelines across multi-stakeholder buying committees.
Served as trusted advisor to founders and technical leaders on real-time data pipelines and AI/ML architectures, helping scale platforms and optimize workflows.
Partnered with early-stage founders and teams to navigate ambiguity and align streaming adoption with evolving product and Go-To-Market strategies.
Collaborated with Solutions Engineers, Professional Services, and Customer Success teams to deliver technical wins and drive 95%+ NRR with expansion and renewal motions.
Won competitive deals against Amazon MSK and open-source Kafka by positioning cloud-native advantages.
Influenced GTM strategy by surfacing startup-specific use cases and competitive insights to product teams.
Expanded adoption through ecosystem partnerships with cloud providers and SIs, unlocking co-sell opportunities.
Planned and developed consumption-based growth strategies to maximize usage/land-and-expand revenue.

SalesAccount ManagementCustomer SatisfactionMarket ResearchData AnalysisSales & Marketing+2

Altman solon

Consulting Analyst

Sep 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Leveraged slide-loop creation, excel modeling, contract analysis, and data visualization to create value and deliver comprehensive growth and Go-To-Market strategies for major telecom providers
Collaborated with project leadership to build a dashboard for CMOs and SVPs to track funnel and KPI metrics, which enabled our clients to gauge ROI and improve responsiveness, transparency, and processes in their marketing department
Created visual models of complex software landscapes and functionalities in order to assess the third-party vendor ecosystem, market trends, and drivers in the SAP Application Security space
Led primary research: sourced, screened, and scheduled over 150 industry experts, produced verbatim transcripts of each interview, extracted KTAs, and aggregated survey results to identify points of differentiation, market risks, trends, and opportunity
Conducted a market scan of the IT Services sector to identify the most attractive sub-sectors for PE client, and diligenced 165 companies in the space to produce a shortlist of 20 high-potential targets, backed by relevant market data, primary research, and technical insights

Presentation SkillsDue DiligenceData AnalysisMarket ResearchStrategyCommunication

Accenture

Summer Analyst

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Conducted and presented competitive intelligence analyses on various Customer Data Architectures with an emphasis on Google Cloud Capabilities to provide clients with an overview of the competitive landscape and recommendations for an optimal platform
Worked under the guidance of experts to create industry-specific presentations and proposals that detail the features and advantages of the various software solutions being developed and the value they deliver to provide clients with relevant and specialized insight
Organized thousands of data entries into a workable dashboard in order to further analyze and extrapolate KPIs from its contents

Data AnalysisMarket ResearchMicrosoft Excel

Cloudcontrol

2 roles

Customer Success Associate

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos

Web Administrator

May 2020 – Sep 2020 · 4 mos

Worked with the CEO to design the target state and incremental experience of the company website and product dashboard, prioritizing which features to deliver to enhance its usability and aesthetic, which boosted weekly site traffic and SEO by 35%

Agile Web DevelopmentUser Experience Design (UED)User Interface DesignWeb Design

Flutterspeed photography

Founder

Jan 2018 – Jun 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Self-taught photographer, web designer, artist, and founder of a freelance photography and design business
Built and leveraged a centralized platform for photography/other artistic ventures to run successful marketing campaigns on social media, advance my brand, and acquire a steady stream of clients using CSS
Consistently converted 75% of leads, broke even on equipment investment within the first year of operation, and generated a profit margin of 60-80% thereafter
Professionally covers events ranging from preproms to recitals and parties, as well as photojournalist pieces like protests, marches, and shows (a Martha Graham Dance Company Recital and the Boston Marathon among them)
Professionally commissioned for private portraits and headshots, as well as real estate and product advertising

PhotographyEvent PhotographyDigital PhotographyCustomer SatisfactionWeb DesignVisual Arts