Enterprise Account Executive, Benelux (Dutch Speaker)

GitGuardian; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

GitGuardian seeks an Account Executive to drive growth in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. You will own the full sales cycle, build relationships with security leaders, and tailor conversations to CISOs, CTOs and VPs.

The role sits on a European Sales team that is native-English speaking and highly technical, reporting to the Sales Manager, Northern Europe. You will use modern sales tools to map, prospect, follow and close accounts, with a quota-driven path to expand GitGuardian across

Qualifications

• Fluent in Dutch and English.
• Autonomy as AE in complex B2B sales cycles.
• Strong outbound pipeline generation skills.
• Ability to size deals and assess client needs.
• Experience selling software to developers/security/devops is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Handle full sales cycle from prospecting to closing.
• Demonstrate and articulate our product to prospects.

Skills

Dutch fluent

Autonomy

Outbound skills

Deal sizing

Industry experience: software

Curiosity

Job description

This position can either be based in the Netherlands or in the United Kingdom.

About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian who raised its series C early 2026.

GitGuardian helps enterprises close credential-based breach paths. It finds secrets wherever they live, prioritizes remediation based on rich context, and prevents new exposure across code, systems, and AI. The GitGuardian platform is already used by more than 600K developers worldwide and by 50 of the fortune 500!

About your team and your mission

Our typical customers are companies with hundreds to thousands of developers that are leveraging SaaS applications, cloud infrastructures, or internal microservices and are mature on DevOps and cloud adoption.

Our products are used by different teams: Software Development and Ops teams, Application Security, Threat Response and the buying decision comes from CISOs / CTOs / Directors of Security.

We are looking for an Account Executive, to focus on developing the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg territories.

(Note that the employment will be done through our EOR partner.)

You will join a European Sales team composed of 8 Account Executives covering the region from our Paris office, 4 Sales Engineers and 2 Account Managers. The team is international, speaks native English and is highly technical. You will report tothe Sales Manager, Northern Europe.

Your main missions will be

• Handling the whole sales cycle from prospecting (50% of your week) to building a strong relationship with companies’ various stakeholders in order to sign your deals (other 50%).

• Understanding and demonstrating our products to prospects.

• Adapting your speech to talk to high-level security professionals (CISOs, CTOs, VPs, …)

• Using modern sales tools to map, prospect, follow and close your accounts.

• Reaching and exceeding your sales quota, to have a strong impact on GitGuardian expansion in Europe!

About you

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

• Fluent in Dutch and English

• Autonomy as an Account Executive within a complex B2B sales cycle, over corporate or enterprise prospects (long cycles 6+ months, multiple stakeholders).

• Strong outbound skills in pipeline generation to build your business from scratch!

• Knowing how to size deals and assess the client’s needs with a strong methodology, knowing how to prioritize your prospects.

• Experience selling software to developers / security / devops engineers. You understand clearly what is the CI/CD and the software development lifecycle into a large company.

• Curiosity and willing to learn! GitGuardian will provide you with training to quickly get you onboarded with our products and how to sell them.

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

• Knowledge of the DevSecOps or application securityindustry (being aware of different softwares and tools of the industry, their value proposition, …)

The interview process

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity and inclusion efforts.

1. Video call with a recruitment team member(45min)

To discover your professional experience and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Interview with Colin, Sales Manager (45-60min)

To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team and the scope.

3. Take home case (60min)

To prepare at home and to present to the team. To evaluate your skills for the position and understand if you're a good fit for the role.

4. Final interview with an Executive Manager (30-45min)

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

5. References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.

More about GitGuardian!

Products

• Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!

• Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!

• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.

• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 app on the GitHub marketplace

Clients

• GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.

• More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.

• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!

• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.

• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.

• You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.