Enterprise Account Executive

SingleStore; Paris; On-site; EUR 166,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

SingleStore is seeking an accomplished sales professional to join our Sales Team in a true hunting role focused on enterprise software for AI workloads. The Account Executive will own a broad territory, build a self-sourced pipeline, and close greenfield opportunities by articulating measurable business outcomes and ROI to executive buyers.

Fluent in French and/or German is required. You will travel within the territory as needed and engage Fortune 500 and security-sensitive organizations across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of quota-carrying B2B enterprise software sales experience.
• Experience selling to Fortune 500 or security-sensitive organizations preferred.
• Ability to build ROI, TCO, or operational-impact cases.
• Strong qualification, forecasting, CRM, negotiation and deal-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute a territory strategy for net-new customer acquisition.
• Prospect across a broad account universe with outbound, ABM, and market-education motions.
• Map the buying center, earn meetings, and tailor points of view for executives.
• Engage executive, business, technical, security, and procurement stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, quantify ROI, and build business cases for production workloads.
• Develop champions, multi-thread the buying group, and maintain alignment.
• Navigate complex sales cycles through security, legal, procurement, and close.
• Partner with Solutions Engineers and cross-functional teams to validate fit.
• Maintain CRM hygiene, forecast, and track pipeline with clear metrics.

Skills

Quota-carrying software sales

Enterprise software sales

Self-sourced pipeline

Executive engagement

CRM proficiency

Negotiation

AI/data/cloud fluency

French or German language

Education

BA/BS or equivalent

Job description

SingleStore is looking for an accomplished sales professional to join our Sales Team. AI is moving from experimentation into production, and this role is an opportunity to break into AI while doing meaningful enterprise selling.

As an Account Executive, AI Hunter, your job is simple: create new SingleStore customers. You will find companies building AI applications where data access, real-time context, memory, retrieval, or operational scale is becoming a constraint—and turn those challenges into new SingleStore customers. You will own a broad territory, build a majority self-sourced pipeline, create demand in an emerging category, and close greenfield enterprise opportunities.

This is a true hunting role. You will engage customers before they have a defined project, develop customer-specific points of view, create urgency around business and technical problems, work with technical experts to land first production workloads, and build a measurable new-logo business with broad ownership. The ideal candidate is a measurable enterprise hunter who is competitive, curious, technically credible, resilient, and able to sell business outcomes. Direct AI sales experience is valuable, but proven selling ability and technical curiosity matter more than a narrow "AI seller" title.

Role and Responsibilities

• Build and execute a territory strategy for net-new customer acquisition.
• Prospect fearlessly across a broad account universe using proactive, persistent outbound, account-based, partner, and market-education motions; stay resilient and effective through rejection and ambiguity.
• Form account hypotheses, map the buying center, and earn first meetings with relevant points of view tailored to the customer.
• Engage executive, business, technical, security, and procurement stakeholders.
• Lead great business-first discovery, connect AI and data challenges to fundable goals, and build quantified ROI, TCO, or operational-impact cases.
• Build and develop champions, multi-thread the buying group, earn executive and economic-buyer access, and maintain stakeholder alignment; own the stakeholder plan, mutual action plan, close plan, value case, stage gates, forecast, and commercial outcome.
• Lead complex sales cycles through technical validation, security, legal, procurement, negotiation, and close.
• Partner with Solutions and Forward Deployment Engineers and cross-functional teams to validate technical fit and establish the first production workload.
• Navigate competitive displacement and maintain disciplined activity management, CRM hygiene, reporting, qualification, forecasting, and opportunity management; showcase clear metrics such as pipeline created, meetings, conversion, quota attainment, and new-logo performance.
• Be AI fluent: use AI and research tools productively and responsibly while applying judgment, validating outputs, and separating facts from hypotheses.
• Travel within the assigned territory as required.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of quota-carrying B2B enterprise software sales experience, ideally selling to large or technically sophisticated organizations; experience in data, cloud, analytics, AI, or adjacent technical domains is a plus.
• Repeated, quantified quota success with clear ownership of new-logo wins and self-sourced pipeline.
• Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals involving executives, technical evaluators, security, legal, finance, procurement, and partners.
• Ability to sell measurable business outcomes and build ROI, TCO, or operational-impact cases.
• Technical fluency in an adjacent domain such as databases, data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML, cloud, Kubernetes, developer tools, cybersecurity, observability, or open-source software.
• Strong qualification, account planning, forecasting, CRM, negotiation, and deal-management skills.
• Learning velocity and coachability, demonstrated through specific behavior change after feedback; ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Executive presence, customer trust, resilience, intellectual honesty, and excellent communication skills.
• B.A., B.S. degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience with Fortune 500 or security-sensitive organizations, cloud ecosystems, open-source or consumption-based products, or emerging categories is preferred.
• Fluent in French and/or German

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses.

SingleStore's salary range for this role is [£140,000 - £230,000]

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