Account Executive

Kaiko Systems GmbH; Berlin; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiko Systems GmbH is looking for an Account Executive to turn meetings booked by our SDRs into signed pilots. You’ll take ownership of the process from discovery to close, mapping the prospect’s fleet operations and showing how Kaiko fits their needs with credibility.

You will run your own demos, build pricing proposals, and drive an expanding pipeline while staying aligned with CET hours and travel when required.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years closing B2B SaaS or technical solutions with quota attainment.
• Comfortable with outbound prospecting and phone outreach.
• Ability to run demos solo with credibility in front of technical buyers.
• Commercial judgment to build proposals, explain pricing, and negotiate.
• CRM discipline: keep data accurate and forecasting reliable.
• Resilience and self-direction in a long, conservative sales cycle.
• Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus for region.
• Remote work with CET overlap and willingness to travel for events.

Responsibilities

• Take the meetings our SDRs book: read handover notes and arrive prepared with company and fleet context.
• Run discovery to identify the real problem, costs, and decision process; qualify early.
• Demo the product solo, tailoring to the fleet and vocabulary to address hard questions.
• Write and defend the commercial proposal with pricing, scope, timeline and terms.
• Build a pipeline of your own through referrals, conferences and CRM opportunities.
• Stay close after signature: support the pilot and drive expansion and references.
• Feed market feedback to product and leadership regarding objections and pricing.
• Improve how we sell by refining process, CRM discipline, materials and playbooks.

Skills

B2B SaaS sales

Outbound sales

Demo proficiency

Commercial judgment

CRM discipline

Resilience

English fluency

Remote work discipline

Travel willingness

Maritime/logistics experience

Job description

We are looking for an Account Executive to turn the meetings our SDRs book into signed customers. You pick up a prospect who has agreed to a conversation but has not yet decided they want the product, work out how Kaiko fits their operation, show them, and carry it through to a signed pilot. Our buyers are technical, conservative and relationship-driven, so the work is in understanding how they run their fleet well enough to be credible.

Tasks

• Take the meetings our SDRs book: Read the handover notes and come to the first call already knowing the company, the fleet, and what prompted the conversation.

• Run discovery that finds the real problem: Ask the uncomfortable second and third question. Understand how the prospect runs inspections, reporting and vetting today, and what it costs them when it goes wrong. Disqualify early when the fit is not there, because a clean no in week one saves everyone a quarter.

• Demo the product yourself: You run your own demos, with no sales engineer beside you. Know the platform well enough to build the demo around the prospect’s fleet, their problems and their vocabulary, and to answer the hard technical questions in the room.

• Write and defend the commercial proposal: You put together the pricing, scope, timeline and terms, and then you stand behind them. Be ready to explain how you got to the number and to hold it when the buyer pushes.

• Build a pipeline of your own: The SDRs will keep meetings coming, and you add to them through referrals, conferences, and the accounts in the CRM that have gone quiet.

• Stay close after signature: Stay useful through the pilot and afterwards, and grow the account into expansion, references and introductions.

• Feed the market back into the company: You sit closest to the buyer. Objections, competitor moves, missing features and pricing pushback reach product and leadership while they are still relevant.

• Improve how we sell: Process, CRM discipline, materials and playbooks, as we grow within the UniSea Group.

What good looks like in your first six months

• Month 1: You can run a full demo on your own, and you understand how a ship manager operates: inspections, vetting, PSC and the reporting chain. You know enough that a superintendent can talk to you in their own terms.

• Month 2: You are running first meetings yourself and getting prospects to a second conversation.

• Month 3: Anyone can look at your pipeline and understand it. Every open opportunity has a named problem, a decision process and a date against it, and the team can build a quarter’s forecast from what you have recorded.

• Month 4-5: You have taken deals through to proposal on your own, and when you lose one you can say why, specifically enough that we change something as a result.

• Month 6: You have closed your first paid pilot and handed it over cleanly, and you are hitting your targets month after month.

Requirements

• At least 2 years closing B2B SaaS or technical solutions, carrying and hitting your own quota.

• You are comfortable with outbound. You will pick up the phone to someone who has never heard of us, and you treat a quiet week as your own problem to solve.

• You run your own demos, and you will learn a product deeply enough to be credible in front of a technical superintendent or a fleet manager with twenty years behind them.

• You have commercial judgment. You can build a proposal, explain a pricing model, and negotiate without conceding the things that matter.

• You keep your CRM current without being asked. If it is not in the CRM it did not happen, and your forecast holds up.

• You have resilience and self-direction. Sales cycles are long, the industry is conservative, and you will work your region largely on your own.

• Maritime, logistics, industrial or other complex B2B experience is an advantage.

• You speak fluent English. Additional languages relevant to your region are an advantage.

• You can work remotely with discipline, your working day overlaps substantially with Central European Time, and you are willing to travel for conferences and customer visits.

What we offer

• A clear path forward, and the honesty to help you take it. You own your region from the start, and we are clear about what the step up to larger accounts asks for. You will hear how you are doing early and directly, while the feedback is still useful, because that is how we work with each other.

• Direct access to the people who make decisions. We are a small team inside a larger group, so what you learn in the market reaches the people who can act on it.

• The backing of the UniSea Group, which means the stability and reach of a larger maritime software business behind a team that still moves quickly.

• Regular team time together and company events.