Account Executive

Dust; Paris; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic work environment

Innovative AI technology projects

Job summary

A forward-thinking software company in Paris is looking for an Account Executive to drive new business and transform how work gets done through AI. You will be responsible for acquiring new customers, managing multi-stakeholder sales cycles, and enhancing customer experiences. The ideal candidate will have a proven sales record, excellent relationship management skills, and the adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join us to shape a new category in AI and work closely with a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 3-4+ years of experience in sales with a track record of meeting/exceeding targets.
• Proven ability to manage complex deal cycles with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong English communication skills for effective messaging.

Responsibilities

• Drive new business acquisition targeting digital native businesses.
• Manage pipeline of sales opportunities from lead to close.
• Provide an exceptional customer buying experience.

Skills

Sales target achievement

Prospecting skills

Customer relationship management

Adaptability

Job description

About Dust

We're creating a new AI operating system that has the potential to change the way companies operate. Our mission at Dust is to transform how work gets done by letting any team and employee shape the exact agents they need to accelerate their jobs.

With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We already are a core part of their jobs.

We're at an exciting stage of our journey—and growing fast. We're serving great customers like Cursor, Clay, Whatnot, and Persona, and aim to x6 our growth by the end of 2025.

Dust is a Sequoia-backed company with an experienced and determined team of optimists (coming from companies like Stripe or OpenAI) that like to focus on users, getting great things done by shipping fast, and doesn’t take itself too seriously while doing so.

This Role

As an Account Executive at Dust, you'll drive our mission to transform how work gets done through AI. You'll build our customer base among digital native and larger businesses, representing our innovative AI operating system that empowers teams to create the exact agents they need.

Joining Dust also means pioneering a new form of Business Development. As a GenAI-native company, Dust aims to illustrate how GenAI can help redefine the experience customers can expect from software and how sales teams can be designed with GenAI in mind.

You’ll contribute to building a new category from the ground up in a fast-paced environment that encourages a doer attitude and ownership over outcomes as we work to 5x our revenue by the end of 2025.

Responsibilities

1. Business Development & Market Expansion

• Evangelize the new paradigm Dust is creating and help Dust truly transform how work gets done.

• Drive new business acquisition by targeting digital native and larger businesses

• Identify strategic expansion opportunities to generate additional revenue

• Drive market expansion by identifying and developing new opportunities, establishing a strong presence in key regions, and building strategic relationships

2. Sales Strategy & Pipeline Management

• Manage a pipeline of multi-stakeholder sales opportunities from lead to close, navigating 2-6 month sales cycles

• Source quality outbound sales pipeline from target accounts through strategic prospecting

• Qualify and manage new opportunities generated by Marketing and other channels

3. Customer Experience & Relationship Management

• Provide an exceptional buying experience for our customers that showcases how Dust can transform their work

• Seamlessly hand over new customers to the Customer Success team

4. Analytics, Reporting & Strategic Insights

• Develop a deep understanding of our target markets, ideal customer profile(s), and value proposition, as well as competitive positioning

• Use CRM and other sales tools to manage your pipeline effectively

• Report to leadership in weekly forecast meetings and 1:1s

• Provide feedback from the market to Product, Marketing, and Dust leadership to inform our product roadmap, target profiles, and go-to-market strategies

Requirements

• You’ve met or exceeded your sales targets for 3-4+ years and are experienced in closing 6-figure deals.

• 3+ years experience selling complex products.

• Proven ability to sell in a lean company with few to no sales support & resources (eg: no lead gen, no SDR, no sales playbook)

• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles in the 2-6 month range

• Strong prospecting skills—and a willingness to use them.

• Proven ability to build deep customer relationships with senior stakeholders at digital native businesses

• Customer-centric approach, enjoying the process of learning about prospects' businesses and helping them solve challenges

• Growth mindset, eager to learn new skills and methodologies and bring best practices into our business

• Collaborative work style, able to partner effectively with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams

• Excellent written and spoken English skills and an exceptional feel for language and messaging.

• Curiosity, adaptability, and a flair for elegant solutions to first-of-its-kind problems

• A hard worker with the ability to be flexible as the needs of Dust evolve - no job is too big or too small

• Must be a European resident

Ideal, But Not Required:

• Experience and strong interest in AI, specifically generative AI and LLMs

Please send your application and resume in English.

Location

We're prioritizing building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris and San Francisco, valuing the magic that happens when talented people work closely together.

Why Dust

We're not building yet another enterprise SaaS tool. We’re creating an AI OS that will fundamentally change how companies operate. We believe existing AI models are powerful enough to have a tremendous impact on the world (and will keep getting better) – the key is building the infrastructure so that they have context and explore the best interfaces for humans to interact with them.

We have the unique opportunity to explore and shape the way humans interact with machines while working on a product we use ourselves every day.

If you're excited about crafting products that reinvent B2B software and want to join a team that combines the best of startup culture with the backing of top-tier investors, we'd love to talk.

👋 Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist.

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Learn how we think and work.

• Our product constitution a story about our mission

• Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024

• LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024