DATA PARTNERSHIPS - ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE (EU)

Station F; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Alan health insurance (mutuelle)

50% Navigo covered

Job summary

Ooak Data is building a new buy-side data-partnership business and is seeking a senior sales professional to own the end-to-end deal cycle across the UK, France, Spain and Germany. You will engage CEOs and founders, craft tailored narratives, and close strategic data partnerships that enable AI model training.

You will report to the COO and work across four markets, adapting the approach to local cultures while maintaining a unified playbook.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in B2B sales, business development or partnerships.
• Proven full-cycle experience: cold outreach through negotiation to signature.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to structure creative commercial agreements.

Responsibilities

• Own the full deal cycle across four markets: prospecting, outreach, calls, scoping, negotiation and signature.
• Build a qualified pipeline of partner companies across target industries in four markets.
• Adapt to four markets and tailor playbooks per country and culture.
• Open doors at the executive level with founders and C-levels using a compelling narrative.
• Shape the playbook with founders: positioning, deal structures, pricing and outbound motion.

Skills

B2B sales

Full-cycle deals

Negotiation

Fluent English

Autonomous

Job description

About

We're Ooak Data

Ooak Data turns company data into training data for AI agents.

Frontier labs can train models to reason. They cannot train them to work: navigating a real company's Slack threads, half-finished Notion docs, contradictory Jira tickets, and permission boundaries. That requires real enterprise data, and you cannot synthesize it. You have to source it.

We plug into enterprise tools, anonymize everything into a structurally identical digital twin, and generate reinforcement-learning environments with expert-level tasks calibrated against frontier models.

We are a Y Combinator company with 8 figures contracts signed with frontier AI labs, and we are scaling delivery aggressively over the next months.

Our values

• Trust, the foundation of every relationship, internal and external. We extend it by default and value the ownership that comes with it.
• Ambition, we commit, we move fast, with tenacity and efficiency.
• Collective, team first, low ego.
• Kindness, at the heart of every interaction.

The offer

Location: Paris (city center), on-site with 1 to 2 days WFH

Territory: United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany

Start: as soon as you are available

Contract: full-time (CDI)

Compensation: fixed salary + commission + equity (BSPCE)

Job Description

Your missions

This is a buy-side role, and that is what makes it unlike any other AE job you will look at this year. You are not selling software. You are convincing the CEO of a real company to let us turn their data into training data for the most advanced AI models in the world.

You own that cycle end to end across four markets: the UK, France, Spain and Germany. Four countries, four ways of doing business, one playbook to write. You report directly to Grégoire (COO & co-founder), alongside your counterpart covering the US.

• Own the full deal cycle: prospecting, outreach, first calls, scoping, negotiation, signature. From a cold name to a signed data partnership.
• Build a qualified pipeline of partner companies across our target industries, from scratch, in markets where nobody is waiting for your call.
• Adapt to four markets. What works with a British CEO does not work with a German one. You figure out what travels, what has to be rebuilt per country, and where we should push first.
• Open doors at the executive level. You are talking to founders and C-levels about their most sensitive asset. You need a narrative that makes them trust us within one meeting.
• Shape the playbook with the founders: positioning, deal structures, pricing, outbound motion. Everything you learn becomes how we sell.
• Feed the loop. What you hear in the market shapes what we build and what we go after next.

Preferred Experience

Who we're looking for

• 3 to 6 years in B2B sales, business development, or partnerships. You have hunted, built pipeline from nothing, and closed.
• Proven full-cycle experience: cold outreach through negotiation to signature. Not an SDR who passed leads along, and not a closer who inherited a pipeline.
• Strong negotiation skills, and comfort structuring creative commercial agreements rather than pushing a fixed price list.
• You can pitch an AI company simply and credibly to a non-technical executive, in any industry, without jargon and without overselling.
• Builder mindset: autonomous, structured, and genuinely fine without a playbook, because you are writing it.
• High discretion. You handle sensitive commercial relationships and sensitive data conversations. People need to trust you fast.
• Real curiosity about AI. You should want to understand how models are trained and why our data matters, because your prospects will ask.
• Fluent English mandatory, it is our working language with the labs and across the team. French strongly preferred, and Spanish or German is a real plus given our territory.
• Based in Paris, or ready to move there.

The extras that make the difference

• Experience in partnerships, sourcing, or procurement-style negotiations, not only classic selling.
• Prior experience as a founding or first commercial hire.
• You have sold something that did not exist yet, or that the buyer had never bought before.

Why join us

• A genuinely new motion. Buy-side AI data partnerships is a category being invented right now. You will be one of the first people in the world doing this job well.
• Entrepreneurial adventure: live the early days of an ambitious company at the front line of the AI revolution.
• Backed by Y Combinator, join just as we accelerate.
• Offices in central Paris.
• Very competitive package
• Perks: Alan health insurance (mutuelle), 50% Navigo covered.

Recruitment Process

Recruitment process

We move fast.

• A 30 min intro call with Grégoire (co-founder)
• A practical case: a mock outreach and negotiation exercise, with a debrief
• A final fit interview with the founding team

Additional Information

• Contract Type: Full-Time
• Location: Paris
• Occasional remote authorized