Cloud Account Executive - Slack

Salesforce; Paris; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. invites you to join Slack team in Paris to drive digital transformation for enterprise customers.

You’ll lead strategic engagements with executives, manage complex sales cycles, and craft compelling stories that show Slack’s impact on productivity and collaboration. In this role you’ll co-sell with Salesforce Core AEs, develop strategic account plans, and guide opportunities from pipeline to contract.

Qualifications

• Proven SaaS sales experience with a track record of exceeding targets.
• Mastery of managing complex sales cycles and strategic accounts.
• Excellent ability to articulate a value proposition tailored to large enterprises.
• Experience engaging with executives and leading strategic discovery phases.
• Ability to prospect, activate networks and develop new business relationships.
• Enjoy collaboration in team-selling environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to executives, identify their challenges and position Slack as an essential solution.
• Work closely with Salesforce Core Account Executives (co-selling).
• Lead complex sales cycles involving multiple decision-makers.
• Craft compelling customer stories that illustrate Slack’s impact on productivity and collaboration.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans to exceed set targets.
• Manage the full sales cycle: pipeline generation, negotiation and contract closing.
• Work with solution engineers to deliver tailored demonstrations and business cases.
• Represent Slack at industry events and share innovative ideas with customers.

Skills

SaaS sales experience

Complex sales cycles

Strategic accounts

Executive engagement

Prospecting & networking

Team selling

Negotiation & presentation

Collaboration software experience

Tools

CRM software

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Sales

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Experience

Rejoignez l’équipe Slack de Salesforce pour piloter la transformation numérique de nos clients.

Slack transforme la façon dont les organisations communiquent, collaborent et atteignent leurs objectifs dans un monde digitalisé. En tant que solution intégrée à Salesforce, Slack permet aux équipes de se connecter, d’automatiser leurs processus et de prospérer en créant des « Digital HQs » adaptés aux enjeux actuels.

Cette opportunité vous permet d’accompagner le changement et de contribuer au succès d’une solution innovante, leader sur son marché.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Agir en tant que partenaire stratégique auprès des dirigeants, identifier leurs enjeux et positionner Slack comme solution essentielle.
• Collaborer étroitement avec les Account Executives « Core » de Salesforce (co-selling).
• Piloter des cycles de vente complexes impliquant plusieurs décideurs.
• Élaborer des récits clients convaincants pour illustrer l’impact de Slack sur la productivité et la collaboration.
• Développer et exécuter des plans de comptes stratégiques pour dépasser les objectifs fixés.
• Gérer l’ensemble du cycle de vente : génération de pipeline, négociation et clôture des contrats.
• Travailler avec les ingénieurs solutions pour proposer des démonstrations et business cases personnalisés.
• Représenter Slack lors d’événements sectoriels et partager des idées innovantes avec la clientèle.

You’re Our Person If…

• Expérience avérée en vente SaaS, avec un historique de dépassement des objectifs.
• Maîtrise de la gestion de cycles de vente complexes et de comptes stratégiques.
• Excellente capacité à formuler une proposition de valeur adaptée aux grandes entreprises.
• Expérience dans l’interaction avec des dirigeants et la conduite de phases de découverte stratégique.
• Aptitude à prospecter, activer le réseau et développer de nouvelles relations commerciales.
• Goût du travail collaboratif et aisance dans des environnements de vente en équipe.
• Solides compétences en négociation, communication et présentation.
• Une expérience dans les logiciels de collaboration ou de productivité constitue un atout.

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The Experience

Join Salesforce’s Slack team to drive our customers’ digital transformation.

Slack is transforming how organizations communicate, collaborate and achieve their goals in a digital world. As a solution integrated with Salesforce, Slack enables teams to connect, automate their processes and thrive by creating “Digital HQs” suited to today’s challenges.

This opportunity lets you support change and contribute to the success of an innovative, market‑leading solution.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Act as a strategic partner to executives, identify their challenges and position Slack as an essential solution.
• Work closely with Salesforce “Core” Account Executives (co-selling).
• Lead complex sales cycles involving multiple decision-makers.
• Craft compelling customer stories that illustrate Slack’s impact on productivity and collaboration.
• Develop and execute strategic account plans to exceed set targets.
• Manage the full sales cycle: pipeline generation, negotiation and contract closing.
• Work with solution engineers to deliver tailored demonstrations and business cases.
• Represent Slack at industry events and share innovative ideas with customers.

You’re Our Person If…

• Proven SaaS sales experience, with a track record of exceeding targets.
• Mastery of managing complex sales cycles and strategic accounts.
• Excellent ability to articulate a value proposition tailored to large enterprises.
• Experience engaging with executives and leading strategic discovery phases.
• Ability to prospect, activate networks and develop new business relationships.
• Enjoyment of collaborative work and ease in team-selling environments.
• Strong negotiation, communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with collaboration or productivity software is an asset.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

Accommodations

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