Account Executive (German Speaking)

Deepgram; Zürich, Genf; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking an Account Executive to drive new customers in the German markets from Switzerland/EMEA. You will own the full sales cycle, prospect for new logos, and collaborate with Marketing and SDR teams to generate meetings.

You will articulate Deepgram's voice AI platform to highly technical buyers, manage relationships with key stakeholders, and help upsell within existing accounts while influencing revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a technical full-cycle sales role.
• Experience building your own pipeline from scratch and closing accounts.
• Consistent overachievement against sales targets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Empathy and a unique ability to understand customer needs.
• Highly organized with exceptional follow-up skills due to managing multiple opportunities at any given time.
• Ability to drive a consistent and repeatable sales process with a coachable/adaptable mindset.

Responsibilities

• Self-prospecting to build a strong sales pipeline of new logos, striving to exceed quarterly and annual sales targets, as well as partnering with the Marketing and SDR teams to generate meetings.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (especially Sales Ops and Sales Engineers) to ensure sales effectiveness.
• Have a depth of understanding regarding customer needs in the voice AI space, competition, and Deepgram products to be able to articulate Deepgram’s value proposition fully to highly technical buyers.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, work with CSMs to drive upsell opportunities and manage existing accounts ongoing.

Skills

Technical full-cycle sales

Pipeline development

Relationship building

Communication skills

Organization & follow-up

Coachable/adaptable mindset

Job description

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

Company Operating Rhythm

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.

Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.

Note: this role is based out of the EMEA territory, specifically Switzerland/Zurich/Geneva.

Regional Expectations

• Based in an EMEA time zone with strong overlap to customer business hours.

• Excellent written and spoken English. Additional European languages are a strong plus.

German Language Expectations

• Native-level or full professional fluency in German (written and spoken), with the ability to conduct complex sales conversations and negotiations.

Opportunity

Deepgram is looking for an Account Executive to drive new customers and revenue to our rapidly growing company, specifically in the German markets. You will have the opportunity to sell a patented world-class voice AI platform that has been enabling our customers to achieve things previously not attainable. We are looking for hungry and talented sales professionals to help us take our top-line revenue to new heights!

What You'll Do

• Self-prospecting to build a strong sales pipeline of new logos, striving to exceed quarterly and annual sales targets, as well as partnering with the Marketing and SDR teams to generate meetings

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (especially Sales Ops and Sales Engineers) to ensure sales effectiveness

• Have a depth of understanding regarding customer needs in the voice AI space, competition, and Deepgram products to be able to articulate Deepgram’s value proposition fully to highly technical buyers

• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, work with CSMs to drive upsell opportunities and manage existing accounts ongoing

You’ll Love This Role If You

• Value having leadership that has tenure and a track record of success

• Thrive working with A Players as cross-functional partners across GTM

• Understand the importance of selling a product that is market validated and can deliver on its technical promise

• Believe there should be no cap to upside and want control of account up-sell potential

• Are passionate about what Deepgram is building and how we are changing what is possible with speech

It’s Important to Us That You Have

• Proven experience in a technical full-cycle sales role

• Experience building your own pipeline from scratch and closing accounts

• Consistent overachievement against sales targets in past experiences

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Empathy and a unique ability to understand customer needs

• Highly organized with exceptional follow-up skills due to managing multiple opportunities at any given time

• Ability to drive a consistent and repeatable sales process with a coachable/adaptable mindset based on other rep success.

• It Would Be Great If You Had

• Familiarity with Challenger or Triangle sales methodology

• Experience selling to a technical audience in a similar space

• Experience selling developer tools, infrastructure, or AI/ML technologies.

• Fluency in German, French, Dutch, or other major regional languages.

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