Founding Account Executive, DACH

Telnyx; München; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Telnyx is seeking an experienced Enterprise Sales professional to own a DACH territory, focusing on 30–40 named accounts across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. You will work with a dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer to design architectures, build POCs, and land production workloads.

In this founding role, you will define how Telnyx sells into enterprise accounts in the region, build a scalable playbook, and create references for future hires. Munich-based or willing to relocate is preferred.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of enterprise sales experience selling into the DACH market (CPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, telecom, AI/ML)
• Proven track record of exceeding quota ($1M+ deals)
• Experience selling to executive and technical buyers
• Hunter mentality with own pipeline and outbound selling
• Strong consultative selling with clear ROI storytelling for technical and business buyers
• Familiarity with MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN methodologies
• Comfort with modern sales tools (Salesforce, Outreach, Gong)
• Excellent written and verbal German and English
• Willingness to be in the field; hybrid role with travel across DACH
• Based in Munich or willing to relocate

Aufgaben

• Own a territory of 30–40 named enterprise accounts across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; focus on ~10 Tier 1 accounts worth $1M+ potential
• Build executive relationships with CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering, and business leads
• Run the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, design the commercial architecture with FDE, negotiate, and close
• Sell production outcomes, not products; deploy AI agent workflows and SOC/NOC use cases
• Define commercial destination before custom work; avoid uncharged discovery
• Maintain disciplined POC management with defined criteria and production outcomes
• Expand accounts; scale from one workload to multiple and grow revenue
• Develop local references and case studies in Munich, Vienna, Zurich
• Provide accurate pipeline reporting and forecasting

Kenntnisse

Enterprise sales

Hunter mentality

Consultative selling

German & English fluency

Executive & technical buyer handling

Outbound prospecting

MEDDPICC familiarity

Tools

Salesforce

Outreach

Gong

Jobbeschreibung

Telnyx is an industry leader that's not just imagining the future of global connectivity—we're building it. From architecting and amplifying the reach of a private, global, multi-cloud IP network, to bringing hyperlocal edge technology right to your fingertips through intuitive APIs, we're shaping a new era of seamless interconnection between people, devices, and applications.

We're driven by a desire to transform and modernize what's antiquated, automate the manual, and solve real-world problems through innovative connectivity solutions. As a testament to our success, we're proud to stand as a financially stable and profitable company. Our robust profitability allows us not only to invest in pioneering technologies but also to foster an environment of continuous learning and growth for our team.

Our collective vision is a world where borderless connectivity fuels limitless innovation. By joining us, you can be part of laying the foundations for this interconnected future. We're currently seeking passionate individuals who are excited about the opportunity to contribute to an industry-shaping company while growing their own skills and careers.

The Role

We're building local Enterprise Sales Pods across global markets — one AE and one Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), working together to build a Telnyx enterprise business in the DACH region. This is not a remote overlay on an existing territory. You will own a named-account list of 30–40 enterprise accounts across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and your job is to turn those accounts into production Telnyx customers.

You’ll work side‑by‑side with a dedicated FDE — not a demo resource, but a technical partner who designs architectures, builds POCs, and gets the first workload live. You win together. No throw‑over‑the‑wall.

This is a founding role. You’ll help define how Telnyx sells into enterprise accounts in DACH, set the playbook, and build the references that the next wave of hires will follow.

The Pod Model

• Enterprise AE — owns the named-account list, builds executive relationships, gets in the room, owns commercial qualification and close, expands the account.
• Forward Deployed Engineer — owns technical discovery, designs the architecture, builds the POC when gated, gets the first workload live, removes blockers and finds the next workload.

We sell the workload, not the SKU. Customers buy a production outcome — an AI contact center, a SOC/NOC agent, global communications, connected mobility, or enterprise inference — that runs on Telnyx primitives (voice, messaging, numbers, wireless, Voice AI, inference, agents, connectivity). You lead with the outcome conversation, not a product menu.

What You’ll Do

• Own a territory of 30–40 named enterprise accounts across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, narrowing to ~10 Tier 1 accounts worth $1M+ in annual potential
• Build executive relationships — get in the room with CIOs, CTOs, VP Engineering, and line‑of‑business owners
• Run the full sales cycle: prospect, qualify, design the commercial architecture with your FDE, negotiate, and close
• Sell production outcomes, not individual products — lead with “let's deploy an AI agent that operates your SOC or NOC workflow,” not “which Telnyx products do you want?”
• Agree the commercial destination before any custom work begins — no free discovery or free development
• Maintain disciplined POC management: every POC has a named executive sponsor, written success criteria, production pricing discussed, a decision date, and a signed commercial document. POCs end in production or they end
• Expand the account — one workload becomes three, one $500K customer becomes a $2M customer
• Build local references and case studies across Munich, Vienna, and Zurich
• Provide accurate pipeline reporting and forecasting — no surprises

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of enterprise sales experience selling into the DACH market — CPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, telecom, AI/ML, or similarly technical infrastructure
• Proven track record of consistently exceeding quota ($1M+ deals)
• Experience selling to both executive and technical buyers — you can hold your own in the boardroom and in the architecture review
• Hunter mentality — you build your own pipeline and thrive on outbound, in‑person selling
• Strong consultative selling skills: can build a clear, compelling ROI story for both technical and business buyers
• Familiarity with sales methodologies (MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, etc.)
• Comfortable with modern sales tools (Salesforce, Outreach, Gong, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication in German and English. You listen before you pitch.
• Willingness to be in the field — visiting customers in person is a core part of this role
• Based in Munich, or willing to relocate — this is a hybrid role with travel across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Bonus Points For

• Fortune 500 or large enterprise new business sales experience in DACH
• Complex sales cycles including RFPs, POCs, and competitive bake-offs
• C‑Level selling experience — you can navigate procurement, security, and legal complexity, including German enterprises (Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, SAP, BMW, Allianz, Bosch, Daimler, Deutsche Bank), Austrian enterprises (ÖBB, OMV, Erste Group, Telekom Austria, Red Bull), and Swiss enterprises (Swisscom, UBS, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Roche, Zurich Insurance)
• Understanding of SIP trunking, phone number provisioning, carrier networks, or AI/ML platforms
• Established relationships in the Munich enterprise ecosystem — manufacturing/Industrie 4.0, automotive, fintech, insurance, BPO/contact center, or SaaS
• Swiss German or Austrian dialect fluency
• Experience selling across DACH with different regulatory, data sovereignty, and procurement environments (GDPR, German data localization, Swiss data protection)

As set forth in Telnyx’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.