Account Executive (Enterprise)

deepset GmbH; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

30 days vacation

Stock options

Learning & development budget

Team socials & meetups

Dog-friendly Berlin HQ

Job summary

deepset seeks an Account Executive (Enterprise) to own the full enterprise sales cycle, from outbound and technical discovery to demo, evaluation, and close. You will engage AI engineers and architects as a technical peer while driving commercial outcomes with CFOs and procurement.

You will build multi-threaded relationships across AI engineers to economic buyers and help shape a data-driven GTM strategy for Haystack's enterprise platform.

Qualifications

• Experience closing enterprise software deals above €100K ACV.
• Ability to converse on architecture with AI engineers and ROI with CFOs.
• Experience operating in a Series A/B environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the full enterprise sales cycle from outbound to close, coordinating with Value Engineer.
• Manage a pipeline of enterprise accounts and hit quarterly ACV targets (€50K–€500K+).
• Lead technical sales conversations on Haystack architecture, RAG, retrieval, and security/compliance topics.
• Translate technical wins into business value for economic buyers and procurement.
• Negotiate enterprise contracts — security reviews, DPAs, MSAs — while maintaining velocity.
• Contribute to building the enterprise GTM motion and convert open-source users to pipeline.

Skills

Enterprise sales

ROI discussions

Technical conversations

Relationship building

Job description

TL;DR

As an Account Executive (Enterprise), you'll own the full enterprise sales cycle from outbound and technical discovery to demo, evaluation, and close, engaging AI engineers and architects as a technical peer while driving commercial outcomes with CFOs and procurement. We're a Series B company building our enterprise sales playbook as we go. You'll help us write it.

Why deepset

At deepset, we’re on a mission to make custom AI solutions accessible to every organization. With Haystack, thousands of developers build advanced LLM applications every day, while our enterprise-ready AI Platform helps companies turn large language models into business value. We’re remote-first, flexible, and built on a culture of trust and ownership. You’ll collaborate with top-tier tech talent, tackle meaningful challenges, and help transform complex AI into solutions that are simple, powerful, and ready for the real world.

What you will do

• Own the full sales cycle: outbound, discovery, technical demo, evaluation, and close, partnering with our Value Engineer

• Manage a pipeline of enterprise accounts and hit quarterly ACV targets (€50K–€500K+ deals, land-and-expand)

• Run technical sales conversations on agent and RAG architectures, retrieval, evaluation, and pipeline orchestration, and handle security and compliance questions directly (SOC 2, EU AI Act, on-prem/VPC)

• Build multi-threaded relationships from AI engineers to economic buyers, translating technical wins into business cases for CFOs and procurement

• Negotiate enterprise contracts — security reviews, DPAs, custom MSAs — without losing deal velocity

• Help build the enterprise GTM motion: feed market signal back to product and marketing, and turn Haystack's open-source community into pipeline

What you bring to the team

• You can run a Haystack pipeline well enough to establish credibility in the first conversation

• You've closed enterprise software deals above €100K ACV and can push a deal without burning the relationship

• You can talk architecture with a senior AI engineer and ROI with a CFO in the same week

• You've operated in a Series A/B environment and treat ambiguity as leverage. We're writing the sales playbook, and you'll help

Nice to have

• Solutions Engineer background, or an engineer who moved into sales

• Experience selling developer tooling, data infrastructure, or AI/ML platforms to engineering and platform teams

• Experience with enterprise security reviews for AI or data products

• Experience converting open-source users into enterprise customers

Benefits

• Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice

• 30 days vacation + extra days for family sick leave

• Competitive salary & stock options for every team member

• Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva

• Annual learning & development budget

• Monthly team socials & in-person meetups

• Dog-friendly Berlin HQ

About us

Founded in 2018, deepset builds open and enterprise-grade tools that help teams build AI with purpose. From Haystack, our open-source framework, to the Haystack Enterprise Platform, we give developers and organizations the building blocks to solve complex, high impact challenges with AI with full control, transparency, and sovereignty. Backed by GV and Balderton, we’re growing the world’s production AI community and customer base solving challenges too critical to get wrong.

Visit us to learn more: deepset Website | Haystack Website | GitHub | Linkedin | X deepset (Twitter) | X haystack (Twitter)