Account Executive Europe (hiring multiple territories)

Benetics AI; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Modern Zurich office

Friday work-from-home option

Job summary

Benetics AI, a Zurich-based company, is seeking an ambitious Account Executive to own the end-to-end B2B SaaS sales cycle in the construction sector. You will qualify leads, run demos, negotiate and close with full ownership of the process.

You will be where contractors are, including trade fairs and events, and grow accounts with more licenses across Europe. Join a fast-growing, cash-flow-positive team in a modern Zurich office.

Qualifications

• Experience in B2B SaaS sales, construction or the trades is a plus.
• Track record with strong numbers: new customers won, pipeline built, territory expanded.
• Hunter mentality with energy and proactive approach.
• Appetite for speed: 20 days sales cycle bothers you; you want to know why a deal took that long.
• CRM discipline; we run HubSpot.
• English at native level; German-speaking is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Qualify the leads that come to us: trade shows, website, referrals.
• Go and find the rest within your assigned territory by phone, email, social selling.
• Run your own demos, negotiations and closes with the help of a strong leadership team.
• Be where contractors are: trade fairs, events, industry gatherings.
• Grow the accounts you win: more licenses, more teams, more of the business.

Skills

B2B SaaS sales

Construction/trades experience

Hunter mentality

CRM discipline

English native

German language

Demos and negotiations

Tools

HubSpot CRM

Job description

Construction has a problem nobody has solved. Tradespeople lose almost a quarter of their working time to things that have nothing to do with the work itself. Industry-wide, that’s more than a trillion dollars a year.

Ferdinand, our founder - electrician, engineer, serial entrepreneur - wasn’t willing to accept that any longer. In 2022 he started Benetics AI in Zurich.

We’re building the modern AI stack for the jobsite. It starts with a voice assistant the crews can use on day one: no typing, over 100 languages and every dialect, up and running 30 minutes. Documentation is 10x faster than writing it out, invoices go out 3 to 5 days earlier, and contractors bill up to 15% more of the work they’re already doing.

Bootstrapped. Cash-flow positive. Growing >200% year over year, with over 400 companies in more than 10 countries.

Our team is young, mixed and pulled together from very different worlds - held together by one job: we build for the people who build.

Tasks

Making the cycle shorter

We close SMB deals in 20 days on average. That’s fast for this industry, and we’re pushing to see how much faster it gets. You will work on constantly iterating and improving the sales journey, improve our qualification methods, iterate the demo, sell Benetics AI and effectively average a ~3x monthly pipeline turnover.

Winning new customers

You run the sales process end to end - first conversation to signed contract. Full ownership, and real room to shape how it’s done.

• Qualify the leads that come to us: trade shows, website, referrals
• Go and find the rest within your assigned territory by phone, email, social selling
• Run your own demos, negotiations and closes with the help of a strong leadership team
• Be where contractors are: trade fairs, events, industry gatherings

Growing the customers you win

The signature isn’t the finish line. You stay on the account, make sure Benetics AI actually sticks with the crew, and grow it from there. More licenses, more teams, more of the business.

Requirements

What you bring

• Experience in B2B SaaS sales, construction or the trades is a plus
• A track record you can point to with strong numbers: new customers won, pipeline built, territory expanded
• Hunter mentality with energy, power, and you move before anyone asks you to
• A real appetite for speed. 20 days sales cycle bothers you. You want to know why a deal took that long and whether it could have taken eight
• A structured way of working, and CRM discipline (we run HubSpot)
• English at native level, german-speaking is a strong plus

What you get

• Clear and attainable revenue targets that we measure monthly
• A clear career path to grow with us into a team lead role or an expert AE role and further from there
• A product with real pull that exites prospects and customers. Our net revenue retention is consistently north of 130%
• Fast sales cycles, 20 days on average, with small entry deals that grow into much bigger accounts
• A sales team of five experienced, highly motivated colleagues, in Zurich and remote and broader team of 25 highly capable team members from Engenieering, GTM, Product
• A modern office right in central Zurich
• If located in Zurich: Monday to Thursday in the office, Friday from home if you want it
• Bootstrapped and cash-flow positive with short decision cycles

How the process runs

• First conversation - 15 minutes, video
• A practical case at our office in Zurich, and you meet the team
• Final conversation and a decision - fast, transparent, no endless rounds