Director, Enterprise Sales

Yext Inc.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Yext is seeking a Director, Enterprise Sales to grow our client base with a focus on Financial Services. You will win multi-million contracts by engaging C-level executives and guiding strategic opportunities in a fast-paced, AI-forward environment.

Bring a proven SaaS sales track record, a strong digital landscape understanding, and the ability to navigate complex cycles. Expect best-in-class compensation with uncapped commissions.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent education.
• Ideally 10+ years experience selling SaaS technologies.
• Ability to engage C-level executives and manage multi-million deals.
• Proven quota attainment and direct new business sales success.
• Experience bringing innovative products to market and managing complex sales cycles.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and grow your own book of business, selling to top accounts.
• Drive growth in the market for existing and new clients and meet quotas.
• Manage end-to-end sales cycles and present value to C-level leaders.
• Develop engagement plans for key prospects and expand revenue.
• Forecast activity and revenue while maintaining referenceable customers.

Skills

Consultative sales

SaaS sales

C-level engagement

Quota carrying

Territory management

Strategic selling

Education

BA/BS degree

Job description

Yext is the leading global enterprise agentic marketing platform. For over 15 years, the world’s most recognized brands in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food have relied on us to keep their brand visible, accurate, and ahead of the competition across every search and AI surface that matters.

We drive customer value through our technology, competitive intelligence, and agentic capabilities to win in an AI-first world. Our partners count on us for strategic, proactive guidance and capabilities, and that distinction shapes everything we build.

Our team takes ownership, challenges each other’s thinking, and turns ideas into results without waiting for a playbook. Those who perform at Yext are rewarded with increased scope, opportunities to tackle complex challenges, broader responsibilities, and meaningful development that enables them to grow alongside a company expanding through both product innovation and strategic acquisitions. The market is racing to adapt to AI, and Yext is at the forefront of that shift. Our ambitions are big, our innovation is accelerating, and the opportunity in front of us is enormous. If you want to do the most important work of your career, come join us!

As a Director, Enterprise Sales , you are responsible for growing our client base with a focus on Financial Services. You are committed to winning and taking advantage of the untapped customer base that could benefit from Yext’s product offering. Individuals should have a proven track record of consultative sales; the ability to negotiate complex six and seven figure contracts; a strong understanding of the digital landscape and a willingness to embrace innovative, fast paced technology companies. If this is you, we offer best in class compensation with uncapped commissions!

What You’ll Do

• Build, lead and grow your own book of business, selling to our top accounts and working with FSI Customers.
• Drive significant growth in the market for both existing and new clients, achieving or exceeding individual quota
• Focus on implementing transactions in an assigned territory and prospect for new opportunities
• Manage complete and complex sales-cycles presenting to C-level executives the value of our product
• Define, implement, and own an engagement plan for key prospects
• Develop and manage positive relationships within our Enterprise market segment, looking for opportunities to make valuable contributions for the customer and develop additional revenue
• Territory/Vertical identification and research, to formalise a go to market strategy and build qualified target accounts
• Forecast sales activity and revenue achievement, while creating satisfied and referenceable customers

What You Have

• BA/BS degree or similar university level education. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience
• Ideally 10+ years experience selling SaaS technologies
• All candidates, who may not have the above-listed years’ experience, but can demonstrate the vital skills, may apply and will be considered
• Ability to reach and develop relationships with C-level executives in key verticals
• Understanding of digital ecosystem landscape and relationships
• Track record of success in carrying a quota, closing FSI deals
• Successful history of net direct new business sales, with the ability to prove consistent delivery against targets
• A track record of success in selling business applications and complex solutions
• Balance a strategic view to an account with a fast-paced transactional approach
• Track record of over-achieving quota (top 10-20% of company) in past positions
• Experience managing and closing complex sales-cycles- demonstrated ownership of all aspects of territory management
• Experience in bringing innovative / market defining products to market
• Must work well in a team selling environment
• Ability to travel

Bonus Points

• Experience in a marketing performance environment with a solid understanding of SEO and SEM
• Local, Display and/or Search market experience

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Yext is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a results-driven, engaging culture where every employee has the opportunity to contribute to the success of the Company, perform at the highest possible level, and grow their skills and capabilities. Yext welcomes employees and applicants of all backgrounds and demographics, and does not engage in discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic recognized under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. The Company believes a broad variety of life experiences across the Yext team is critical to its mission to help every business in the world be visible everywhere customers search. By seeking out fresh perspectives and fostering a positive interview experience and employee experience, Yext can remain at the forefront of innovation, and better serve its customers.

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