Strategic Account Executive - EU

MakiPeople; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

BestSales/AI tools

Paris office base

Global travel

Job summary

Maki is seeking a Strategic Account Executive for the DACH region, based in Paris or London. You will build the strategy that lands large enterprise logos in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and partner with a pod including a BDR, a forward deployed engineer and a customer success manager.

You will bring a proven track record of selling to enterprises, closing six-figure deals, and delivering business cases that executives act on.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years in sales with enterprise experience.
• 3+ years selling to enterprises in the DACH region.
• Fluent German and professional English.
• Proven track record of six-figure deals.
• Experience using AI tools in daily sales work.

Responsibilities

• Run complex enterprise sales cycles across the DACH region from first call to signature.
• Build an account plan and point of view for every key account.
• Lead business cases with the buyer in the buyer's numbers.
• Lead complex negotiations with EB's, procurement, works councils and legal.
• Frame expansion opportunities before signature: entire platform and future use cases.
• Collaborate with your pod to maximize growth in the account for years to come.

Skills

Fluent German

Professional English

Strategic sales

Six-figure deals

AI in sales

Job description

Strategic Account Executive, DACH (Paris or London)

About Maki

Maki is the worlds #1 AI Hiring tool and helps the world's largest companies hire the best people, fast. Nespresso, H&M, Deloitte and other global enterprises use Maki to screen, assess and amplify candidate engagement. Recruiters waste less time, candidates get a better experience, and companies get the best talent, that actually stay. Customers have cut time to hire by up to 45% and a large portion of our business comes from references directly in from customers, the same customers who rank Maki a High Performer 4.7 out of 5 on G2.

Why now

Enterprises cannot hire fast enough, and AI has made it worse: application volumes are higher than ever, and CVs tell you less. HR has been one of the slowest functions to adopt AI, and now it is pushing hard. Talent leaders know their legacy process hurts candidates, cost and revenue. A store that runs short of staff loses sales every hour it is short. Maki solves that.

The role

You build the strategy that lands the largest enterprise logos in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and build them into multi-year high growth accounts. You partner with a pod that comprises of a BDR, a forward deployed engineer and a customer success account manager. You bring the buyer a point of view, build the business case with them, and leave every signature with an account plan to grow the account for years.

If you want large inbound enterprises that are ready to work with an expert, strategic rep, this is for you. If you want the chance to earn the most you ever have in your sales career, this is for you.

What you will do

• Run complex enterprise sales cycles across the DACH region, from first call to signature.
• Build an account plan and point of view for every key account: the shift it needs to make, what waiting costs, and why Maki above all others in the crowded HR tech space.
• Build business cases with the buyer, in the buyer's numbers, that makes them look like experts internally and a no-brainer to partner with Maki.
• Lead complex negotiation processes with EB's, procurement, works councils and legal, trading value rather than giving it away.
• Land where the customer is ready, and frame the full expansion before signature: entire platform, future use cases, forward thinking commercials.
• After landing business, work with your pod to build out a strategic account plan that maximizes growth in the account for years to come.
• Be AI first and be able to use AI every day to research, prepare and scale how you work.

What you bring

• Minimum 6+ years in sales, including 3+ years selling to enterprises in the DACH region.
• Fluent German and professional English.
• A strategic sales background: you have landed large logos and worked with many stakeholders at once.
• Numerous closed six-figure deals you can walk us through in detail.
• Points of view and business cases that executives acted on.
• You use AI tools in your daily sales work.

How we work

We are an early team, during these early days these are the traits we demand in every single person:

• Grit: you go big on accounts and keep going when a deal gets hard.
• Candor: you give direct feedback, you want it back, and you act on it.
• Curiosity: you crave learning and you want to build.
• Ambition: you are ambitious about your own potential and the power of what Maki can do.

What we offer

• A competitive compensation that leads the market
• Inbound and outbound enterprise demand, and a pod partner with to scale it.
• Equity
• The best Sales and AI tools
• Based in our Paris office, with travel across Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Our process

• A short interview on Mochi, our AI interviewer, so you try the product yourself. It assess you for various skills and gives you a chance to ask questions.
• A 30 minute call about what you are looking for, your background and how we work.
• A 30 minute deal review with our VP of Sales. Bring one large strategic deal that you led and closed in the last 12 months. No slides. Be prepared to walk through the deal in detail.
• An assignment: build a point of view on an enterprise account we choose, run a live discovery call with us, and show us how you used AI to prepare.
• References.
• Offer.